Discusses the need for faculty development programs in library schools and examines some aspects of instructional development, microteaching, curriculum development, organizational development, and personal development as components in formulating such programs. (FM)

Presents an instructional model and philosophy of a mathematics course for preservice elementary and middle grades teachers that could help make the vision of geometry teaching and learning a reality. (KHR)

This article outlines basic concepts of three prominent instructional approaches: cooperative learning, direct instruction, and learning styles. The relationship between each model and developing student thinking skills is explored; an organizing framework for assessing and synthesizing instructional models is examined; and implications for…

This article briefly outlines the dominant critical thinking technique, explains why the reductionistic methodology and epistemic assumptions underlying its strategies are problematic, and suggests that ideological influences have led to critical thinking's uncritical endorsement as a learning technique. More imaginative creative approaches are…

A 15 year veteran teacher discusses objectives, content, activities, and structure of her educational sociology course. Included are results from a 1983 survey of educators in the field which provides data on teachers, students, teaching methods and subject matter. (IAH)

To ensure that teachers develop knowledge and skills necessary to promote development of a global perspective in students, a global perspective should be incorporated throughout the teacher education curriculum. Suggestions are given for developing an enhanced global perspective through general studies, foundations of education, curriculum and…

Includes "Importance of Being a Technology Teacher" (Seymour); "Opportunity for Minority Teachers" (Scott); "You Can Shape the Future" (Lovedahl); "Boring? NOT!" (Wright); and "1993 Listing of Institutional Members" (directory of degree programs in technology education). (JOW)

Visualizes future of early childhood education and care in terms of quality. Advocates quality in things that scaffold programs: quality training, education, and credentialing for staff; efficient, quality regulations that truly protect children and families; quality financing; effective accountability; and functional governance. Contends quality…

Unlearning racism involves examining racist assumptions that are embedded in courses and curricula, acknowledging complicity in maintaining existing systems of privilege and oppression, and addressing failure to produce change. Narrative is an effective way to examine experience; it provides an alternative to traditional academic discourse. (SK)

Discusses this journal issue's special section on education of teachers for middle school teaching. Asserts that despite criticism or apathy, attention must be given to creating a better pool of middle grades teaching talent. Introduces the issue's articles, which deal with successful attempts to bring together the faculties of restructured middle…

Recommendations for how personnel preparation programs can encourage individuals to become culturally inclusive are presented, including: encourage individuals to understand the values and beliefs behind acculturated practices and research; engage the cultural self in learning; align instruction with relevant experiences; and work on developing…

As part of the efforts of Sweden's Malmo School of Education's "Preparedness for Peace" project, this document presents a conversation with Paul Smoker. Smoker is director of the Richardson Institute for Conflict and Peace Research, University of Lancaster, England. He has a long history of involvement with peace research and peace…

This report summarizes and highlights what transpired during the four-part conference entitled "Improving Teaching." The purpose of the series was to bring together educational leaders to discuss questions relating to training, attracting, and retention of good teachers in Connecticut. The material is organized according to the…

Rather than just examine surface problems, a more productive inquiry into social studies teacher education is to examine the structure and internal processes of teacher education. When probing beneath the surface and looking within, teacher educators see three unflattering images: misplaced martyrdom, myth maintenance, and woe-is-meism. Misplaced…

The author critically reviews recent suggestions from Buchmann, Fenstermacher, and Zumwalt that teachers draw their own conclusions from research findings, rather than accepting the conclusions researchers draw. Drawing on Gusfield's analysis of the language of social science, the author considers the suggestions as proposals for the rhetoric that…