Microteaching, a technique for training teachers to develop specific teaching skills through the use of a scaled down classroom situation, has proved to be not only effective but also strongly appealing to teachers. A state-of-the-art paper entitled "Microteaching: History and Present Status" prepared by the authors for the ERIC…

This state-of-the art paper summarizes the history of microteaching's development and its rationale, the many uses of microteaching, and the research evidence on microteaching--a training procedure which has become an established element in the programs of many colleges, universities, and school districts in the education of various groups of…

This cassette tape on staff attitudes toward educational change is one of a series designed to inspire inservice school personnel and provide them with basic information about school innovation. In this 20-minute tape, Allen outlines several principles of introducing and sustaining change in a school. His goal for a school is to achieve "critical…

This tape cassette on inservice teacher education is one of a series designed to inspire inservice school personnel and provide them with basic information about school innovation. Allen begins his 20-minute recording with the assertion that certification is not the end of teacher education even for well-trained teachers, simply because the field…

This tape cassette on team teaching is one of a series designed to inspire inservice school personnel and provide them with basic information about school innovation. In this 20-minute tape, Allen stresses that we need a more flexible notion of team teaching beyond the predictable versions of two or three teachers working together or of students…

This 20-minute cassette tape on microteaching is one of a series designed to inspire inspire inservice school personnel and provide them with basic information about school innovation. Allen describes microteaching as a scaled-down and constructed, yet real, teaching situation in which teachers can sharpen skills (like the use of reinforcement),…

This 20-minute tape cassette on performance criteria is one of a series designed to inspire inservice school personnel and to provide them with basic information about school innovation. Allen develops the theme that performance criteria give teachers and students precise notions of what should be learned and of when learning has occurred. The…

This 20-minute tape cassette on students as teachers is one of a series designed to inspire inservice school personnel and provide them with basic information about school innovation. Allen's comments focus on the appropriate teaching roles for students and the advantages of students as teachers. Allen feels that all kinds of students can and…

The Center for Study of Educational Innovations (CSEI), University of Massachusetts, through working relationships with different types of field testing schools, will experiment with research, development, and implementation in four areas: institutional structures, curriculum development, instructional strategies, and teacher education. High…

Outlines a proposed seven-year plan for fundamental and systematic revisions in major programs of teacher education. (MF)

The first of two papers presented in this publication examines the problems of establishing and maintaining a rapport between colleges of education and local schools for their mutual benefit. In an ideal setting and relationship, colleges would conduct research and controlled demonstrations, with the results of the research being implemented by…

This proposal for a model curriculum based on conceptions of performance criteria (behavioral objectives) consists of nine sections: (1) the rationale for a new professionalism in education; (2) the general structure, function, and assumptions of the proposed program; (3) performance criteria as a planning principle for developing teaching skill…