A checklist of teacher competencies that should be acquired for successfully teaching handicapped students is presented. (JD)

Direct observation and feedback, used in conjunction with computer technology, may permit the development of effective and efficient inservice and preservice performance-based teacher training programs. Use of the Computer Assisted Teacher Training System (CATTS), one possible observation system, is described. (Author/MJB)

This article contains a summary of major conceptual and empirical advances in the field of classroom management and a guide to literature in the area. Attention is given to ways in which preservice teachers can develop an understanding of this knowledge and learn to apply it in classrooms. (MT)

Cook School District is a Web-based simulation designed to allow teacher candidates an opportunity to explore connections between their actions as teachers and the learning and engagement of simulated students. The simulation provides a setting in which to practice the processes inherent in teacher work sample methodology (TWSM). The outcomes of…

This paper describes problems and possible solutions involved in creating a context in which teaching skills can be studied experimentally. (MM)

Skills, knowledge, and attitudes of highly and moderately effective teachers should be described, and these descriptions should form the basis of the teacher education program and its evaluation. (MJB)

Characteristics of good teaching are described. A general model for identifying, measuring, and developing teaching skills in physical education is presented. (MT)

Common sense cannot and must not serve as the basis for professional practice. It is an inadequate approach to understanding the workings of the school bureaucracy and counterproductive in efforts to foster student learning. The great challenge to teacher educators is not to miss present opportunities to upgrade teacher education. (MT)

The elements of speaking and listening in order to identify basic teaching skills that are essential to teacher pupil interaction are analyzed. (MJM)

Who should be accountable for what beginning teachers need to know? This article first explains and illustrates three sets of knowledge and skills beginning teachers should have acquired in their preparation programs: academic knowledge needed for teaching the field of their license, generic professional knowledge and skills needed for teaching…