Contends that accreditation alone is not the solution to problems facing early childhood and school-age education programs. Presents seven recommendations for program accreditation. Suggests that stakeholders should also continue to refine standards and practices, focus on integrating accreditation policies into comprehensive plans, view…

This article describes stereotypes of gifted children that generate negative attitudes. It clarifies how stereotypes have been used to exclude children from programming and how equity issues are often ignored in identification. The exploration of these issues resulted in the development of a "gifted game", created as a project by undergraduate…

The shortage of competent, caring professionals who see themselves as urban educators has long been recognized as a problem that teacher preparation programs need to address. The authors argue that situating an entire elementary teacher education program in an urban school setting and engaging candidates in ongoing conversations about difficult…

The thesis of this paper is that constructivism and similar pedagogic formulations are problematic because: (1) being nondialectical they close off possibilities for dialogue about issues such as those discussed in this paper; and (2) they are embedded in forms of discourse which privilege middle-class culture, values, language, and ways of…

In redesigning teacher education for the 21st century, five basic principles should be considered as general guidelines. First, teacher professionalism has become a matter of overriding concern. Second, teacher education should offer itself as the field for the humanization of youth. Third, an interdisciplinary approach to education is a key…

A three-stage model for the systematic development of competent secondary school teachers of speech communication begins with the prospective teachers examining "who they are" and "what makes them confident and happy" in terms of motivational needs, and dominance-submission, anxiety-confidence, and rigidity-flexibility characteristics. The second…

Guidelines and recommendations for teacher education recommended by the American Chemistry Society are presented. The guidelines for preservice and inservice education of chemistry and science teachers are also included. Suggestions for implementing the teacher education programs are specified for teachers, college and university administrators…

Since its beginnings in 1970, a field-based teacher education program aimed at preparing certificated Alaska native teachers has graduated 80 teachers. Until then, the University of Alaska's teacher training program had been a traditional campus-based program aimed primarily at preparing teachers for urban schools, with no course that reflected…

The Coalition of Teacher Education Programs (COTEP) is a voluntary group of six Indiana universities: Ball State, Indiana State, Indiana University, Purdue, and the University of Evansville. This report from COTEP summarizes the recommendations made in nine commissioned papers on improving the education of teachers. These papers focused on topics…

This paper discusses the implications of research on effective schools and classrooms for teacher training programs. References to research focus on studies of schools and classrooms in which nearly all students demonstrated at least minimum mastery on standardized achievement tests of mathematics and reading. At issue are the questions of whether…

Viable reading education programs require faculty who not only know the field but also remain sensitive to the many forces controlling program survival. A program will function well only if the administration clearly articulates the management process, responds intelligently to market trends, and includes faculty input in decision making. Among…

Those shaping the vocational-technical education program in Zimbabwe can learn much from the factors that influenced vocational education in the United States; the problems U.S. vocational education encountered; and the structure and content of American vocational and technical education. Accordingly, Zimbabwe's vocational leaders must encourage…

The Major Project in the Field of Education stresses renewed and intensive efforts by Latin American and Caribbean Island countries to provide the resources and training necessary to meet basic education needs by the year 2000. This document examines project achievements, innovations, and problems through 1986 in the areas of rural education,…

This report summarizes and presents information from interviews with 22 National Inservice Network project directors. The purpose was to identify problems and solutions encountered in directing regular education inservice (REGI) projects. The projects were sponsored by institutions of higher education, state and local education agencies, and an…

Alternative teacher education programs have come under fire from a variety of sources--researchers, legislators, parents, even other educators. The authors' responses to the focus article provide the insights of practitioners who regularly work with teachers so prepared. Warren states that the problem addressed in this study notes the absence of…