This article explores responsibilities of colleges of education in the move to reform the education system. (DF)

Describes the early years of teacher education at Johns Hopkins University. Maintains that the program had a sophisticated concept of teaching that included elementary and advanced instruction, continuing education activities, training programs for public and university-bound teachers, and a pedagogical emphasis in the various disciplines. (BSR)

Four leading educators respond to 10 questions about the redesign of standards of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education that will alter that organization and thus affect teacher preparation and practice. (IW)

If state certification and other bureaucratic requirements were dropped in favor of a genuine review of the skills of individual teacher candidates, the issue of who should train teachers would be resolved, since only those who successfully educated candidates would survive. (MT)

The education of prospective teachers is one of those academic pursuits that is vital to the national interest. Yet teacher education in the academy is under assault. Critics include influential school superintendents, scholars, public servants, and prominent business leaders. Their lack of confidence in teacher-education programs should be a…

Although teaching is an old and noble profession, teacher training institutions are not professional schools. Pedagogy is a clinical rather than a theoretical study and should not be confused with general education or with graduate study. Ideological divisions dissipate the energies that would be better used to attain a new pedagogical design. (FG)

Argues the importance of maintaining teacher preparation programs in elite liberal arts colleges so that graduates of those colleges can have access to the profession and the profession can benefit from their talents. Suggests that such colleges form consortia in order to maintain preparation programs. (IRT)

The concept of effective teacher training through the use of college supervisors is no longer a viable method of instruction. (LH)

Responds to a recent paper that supports the view that a formal relationship between teacher education programs and environmental education should be top priority. Explores the evolution of an implementation theory relating to environmental education within preservice programs. Includes 16 references. (DDR)

Positions the science program in such a way that it becomes vulnerable to positive and effective changes thereby allowing needed reform to occur. Suggests a lack of effective inservice and preservice preparation of science teachers and proposes the science supervisor as being instrumental in bringing about change in the science program at the…

Argues that two barriers to literacy are the failure of teacher-education programs to adequately prepare reading specialists to work with language-minority learners and of education researchers to engage in more substantive research on English reading development for such students. Points out the barriers that exist within the literacy education…

Curriculum theorists must raise their own institutions' level of consciousness about fundamental principles in the curriculum development process. Curriculum researchers must align themselves with curriculum decision makers in other institutions and curriculum inquiries must study actors, actions, and the consequences of actions in natural…

A sequential program of teacher education is presented, viewing teaching as an art and proposing that teacher education should cultivate a creative outlook, an understanding of the intellectual foundations of artistic teaching, a working knowledge of the technology of the teacher's craft, and a personal style of artistic teaching. (PB)

This article outlines the significant influences on the evolution and status of physical education and sport for disabled individuals. Topics include legislative mandates, adapted physical education, professional preparation in adapted physical education, the changing role of the physical education specialist, disabled sport, and research…

This article explores current teacher education program evaluation practice, describes problems arising from inadequate evaluation, and outlines an improved procedure for obtaining data about program effects. An Institutional Board Review of graduates is proposed as a source of information for program evaluation, as well as a benefit to…