Across Canada, new curriculum initiatives require teachers to introduce students to Aboriginal content. In response, many teachers unfamiliar with Aboriginal approaches to learning and teaching are seeking ways to respectfully weave this material into their lessons. At the same time, many teachers are also grappling with how to foster inclusive…

Education is of relevance to everyone but it involves a specialized vocabulary and terminology which may be opaque or unfamiliar to those new to the field. This UK-focused Dictionary of Education provides clear and concise definitions for over 1,100 terms, from A* to zero tolerance, that anyone studying education or working in the field is likely…

This volume illuminates the most pressing challenges faced by urban schools, teachers, teacher candidates, and teacher training programs and offers a range of insights and possibilities for urban teacher education and teaching. Covering issues spanning the broadly theoretical to the urgently practical, it goes beyond the traditional discourses in…

This bilingual (English and French) booklet is a guide to the requirements for basic teaching certificates in Canada. Information is presented in chart form and includes: (1) the different types of certificates and licenses necessary for teaching in each of the 10 provinces and 2 territories, (2) the educational requirements for obtaining these…

Describes a program in operation since 1972 which enables university students from Newfoundland to do student teaching in England. Reports results of a survey that asked the program's first participants to evaluate, in retrospect, the strengths and weaknesses of that cross-cultural teaching experience. (JHZ)

Child abuse prevention expertise is sufficiently important to warrant its acquisition during pre-service teacher education training. Teacher training can address primary abuse prevention in the context of child growth and development or parenting courses. Such studies would lead to and necessitate the creation of non-punitive methods of classroom…

Evidence that Canadian teachers are not adequately prepared for the integration of exceptional students into regular classrooms is reviewed and two proposals for teacher education reform are compared, special education courses are included in regular teacher education programs and the other in which regular and special education are merged. (DB)

This study explored secondary preservice science teachers' attempts to implement a constructivist approach to science teaching in a practicum setting. Described is the secondary science education program at St. Francis Xavier University. Interview excerpts are presented as data. Results indicated: (1) student teachers went through two…

This paper uses the ethno-cultural composition of the Canadian population and the framework of multicultural policies as a springboard for examining how a democratic state prepares new teachers for teaching in a multicultural society. The education community has come to accept multiculturalism as a foundation of Canadian identity, although there…

Concerns about the quality of education, teachers, the curriculum, instructional materials, and teachers' professional developments led to the commissioning of a survey of mathematics teachers in Alberta, Canada. Stratified random samples of 100 elementary schools and 100 secondary schools were drawn. In elementary schools all teachers were asked…

These conference proceedings include three invited lectures, a panel discussion, three working group reports, two reports from topic groups and a participant list. The invited lectures include a discussion of the impact of calculators on the calculus curriculum (Herbert S. Wilf); a consideration of the role of misconceptions in learning…

Discusses the issue of quality practicum teaching experiences, focusing on the selection of interns, sponsoring teachers, and supervisors. Offers guidelines for selection of each group based on the experience of the internship program, operated by the Saanich schools and the University of Victoria. (JHZ)

This 13-chapter book is the product of 2 years of research undertaken as part of a 25-country science study. To provide a context for understanding science education as it has developed in Canada, the book traces educational policies and practices from pre-confederation times to the present. It explains how Canada's colonial beginnings and…

Reports on a survey of 122 elementary art education methods instructors in the United States and Canada. Finds that methods courses focus on one of three general areas: (1) those that focus on art itself; (2) those that focus on pedagogical issues; or (3) those that focus on the non-art major preservice teacher. (CFR)

Analysis of results from a study of 41 grades three and four Native students found significant positive correlations among self-concept, academic achievement, and teacher expectations and low positive relationship between creativity and academic achievement. Support for the phenomena of age grade deceleration and academic retardation with…