Paper explores the idea of biography writing as a medium for teacher development and reflection, focusing on the ethnographic biography to provide student teachers with context in preservice education and describing a one-semester course in Switzerland in which student teachers were paired with experienced teachers to complete ethnographic…

This paper describes activities, content, and basic conceptions used in a multicultural education course designed for preservice teachers at Montana State University in a homogeneous region, discussing such specific needs as basic awareness of and positive attitudes about diversity in general. (SM)

One teacher educator returned to a secondary classroom to test her mature understanding of teaching and learning with real students and gain insights to influence her teaching of preservice teachers. The experience highlighted the need for teachers to analyze students' learning or lack of learning and respond to that analysis. (SM)

Examines how teachers' pedagogical practices shape them as educators and alter their belief systems about students. A teacher describes her own pedagogy, noting how she made her practices consonant with her beliefs and discussing the changes in her attitudes when she changed her course from pass-fail to letter grading. (SM)

Paper describes one approach to preservice teacher education that considers the experiences of other nations and cultures in meeting the educational needs of students, arguing for the merits of closely analyzing particular examples of English elementary school practice in the context of an advanced undergraduate course in elementary teacher…

Proposes two approaches for nurturing teachers' and students' ability to develop caring attitudes and to experience others' lives vicariously: critical reading of literature and writing narratives. The article suggests that intimate, confrontive engagement with texts read and/or written by students might inform teachers of previously unrecognized…

Many American schools that use site-based management and shared decision making have a lead teacher who continues teaching while accepting greater responsibility for the overall school success. The Southeastern Teacher Leadership Center helps lead teachers assume their new leadership roles. Program evaluation indicates it helps remove barriers…

This article describes the creation and initial teaching of a teacher education course, Gender Socialization in Schools. The course provides an understanding of the role gender plays in teaching and learning in schools and helps prospective teachers, parents, and others in designing educational programs that reduce gender bias. (SM)

Several issues must be resolved to help teacher education become a truly multicultural experience. The paper discusses whether values can be taught in universities and suggests screening teacher candidates for prejudice prior to accepting them into programs. Universities need faculty who can model appropriate behaviors and teach about such issues.…

Teacher educator discusses challenges in preparing teachers for diverse student populations. She remembers being the only African American in one seventh grade class. It was the only public school experience in which she forgot her differences because the teacher taught to benefit all students, forever influencing her educational beliefs. (SM)

This article places the teaching internship experience in an analytical context, suggesting that the process by which interns become teachers is best understood as a rite of passage into the culture of teaching. Following three interns through the process, the paper examines rites of separation, of transition, and of incorporation. (SM)

This annotated guide presents 51 resources on the subject of engagement in ethical, political, and social discourse and deliberative action when developing educators as leaders. Topics include mentoring, empowerment, women's issues, peer coaching, collective bargaining, teacher/principal relationships, and school restructuring. (SM)

Describes strategies one teacher educator uses in an ethnic studies course designed to prepare teachers for the future (which is predicted to have more minority students and fewer minority teachers). Multicultural educational experiences are essential so teachers can gain social science, pedagogical, and subject matter content knowledge about…

Describes efforts in the reform of science education, noting the importance of changing preservice and in-service teacher education. The article examines three national systemic reform efforts and discusses implementation efforts in Iowa. It also discusses Iowa's teacher preparation and offers assessment information arising from Iowa's efforts.…