Ensuring that all Arizona children receive the high-quality education they deserve requires an effective teacher in every classroom along with school and district leadership that is focused on raising student achievement. Arizona's educators, from the classroom teacher to the district superintendent, are the most important component of the state's…

Microcomputer modules were developed to help Pennsylvania State University students and inservice teachers develop 10 generic competencies regarding working with handicapped students in the least restrictive environment. Competencies touch on understanding the legal bases for education in the least restrictive environment, making use of…

The paper describes a program developed at Alabama A and M University to train teachers to work with gifted children. The approach involves building on the experiences and backgrounds of teachers from other academic areas, and is designed to assist prospective teachers in developing competencies in both subject area specialties and gifted…

This paper outlines a seven-step program for helping teacher interns deal with classroom behavioral problems. In step 1, "preassessment of interns," interns indicate a lack of training in the area of behavior modification through discussion and classroom behavior. In step 2, "instructional objectives," interns observe and discuss principles of…

A theory and application course, allowing physical education student teachers to find their strengths and weaknesses in locating, reviewing, and communicating selected material and providing opportunities to integrate physical education concepts while trying to put theory into practice, is described and evaluated. (MT)

Standards of the Council on Education of the Deaf (CED) touch upon definitions, types of CED certification, certificate renewal, prerequisites to preparation for provisional certification, requirements and competencies for provisional and professional certification, certification requirements for supervisors of instruction and psychologists. (CL)

A model is described which presents a viable performance evaluation system for special education teachers. The model specifies criteria reflecting effective teaching behaviors as supported by research and features summative evaluation directed by trained evaluators. (CL)

The author fondly recalls an elementary school teacher in Britain during World War II who provided a differentiated curriculum to her three gifted students while also providing individualized instruction to the rest of the class. (CL)

The authors propose a model for preparing special education teachers which accepts those differences among students that require categorical decisions for instructional pruposes but not those categories existing as mere historical artifacts. Three noncategorical teacher training programs are described, and six clusters of teacher competencies are…

The authors describe a professional training program in the field of early intervention for Master's level students at Wheelock College, Boston, MA. (Author/CL)

Examines ways in which a teacher appointed as professional tutor can support school staff development activities. Identifies tutor task areas and discusses experiences gained in a pilot project concerned with the role of tutors. Suggests situations in which professional tutors can successfully take on staff development activities. (Author/MK)

Examines the revised Taxonomy Table as a tool for instructional improvement, describing what counts as improved instruction and discussing how the revised Taxonomy can assist in instructional improvement efforts. The paper asserts that by working within the framework of the revised Taxonomy, teachers can increase the alignment of objectives,…

Keiwa College, a small liberal arts college in Niigata, Japan, has developed a number of on-campus and community-based teacher training programmes to benefit our students in the teacher education course in the Department of English and Communication and in-service English teachers in the area. These programmes provide students with opportunities…

Over a 27-year teaching career in schools in North London and the Zambian bush I have relished the challenge of helping the disaffected or reluctant learner. Most of my teaching was in the area of business and vocational education, where learners have often been placed not through choice but because they were not seen as high enough achievers to…

For teacher educators, genre-based pedagogies offer a valuable resource for assisting both pre- and in-service writing instructors to assist their students to produce effective and relevant texts. Instead of focusing on the process of composition, the content of texts, or the abstract prescriptions of disembodied grammars, genre pedagogies enable…