A survey was made by Texas Technological College of secondary school teacher education programs in the United States to determine the various checkpoints and screening procedures of teacher candidates enrolled in those programs. A 13-item questionnaire designed to elicit these data was responded to by 43 institutions in 32 states, and responses…

This study investigates the performance of students in a simulation correlated with selected measures of their personality, attitudes toward children and teaching, creativity, and effective reasoning in an attempt to discover variables which identify good and poor solvers of teaching problems. Thirty-six elementary education majors were…

An opinionnaire was constructed by asking approximately 100 students to write down, subjectively, items with which they were most concerned in becoming teachers. Twenty of these were selected as being the most representative of the prospective teacher. This 20-statement opinionnaire was then administered to 417 undergraduate secondary education…

Elementary education majors can effectively use puppets and puppetry in teaching health concepts to elementary school pupils. (MJB)

Results of a knowledge level test concerning alcohol and its use are given. Subjects were 435 students enrolled in basic professional courses for preservice teachers. (MJB)

A study identified the numeracy demands for English, social-science, and math-education majors. Results were used to develop a framework that described the numeracy demands of academic texts and tasks. A need to integrate literacy and numeracy in academic programs was evident. (SK)

This paper explores aspects of the discursive production of the desire for (hetero)sexual marriage. The insights, understandings, and concerns articulated in this paper stem from the experience of a collective memory work project undertaken with a cohort of undergraduate early childhood teacher education students at a regional university. This…

This paper reports on empirical research into formative assessment conducted in a blended learning environment within a professional doctorate in education (EdD.) programme in an English university, focusing primarily on peer discussion forum activity. This was conceptualised within sociocultural learning theories, where learning entails processes…

University researchers, teacher candidates, language and technology instructors, student learners, and families from diverse backgrounds partnered in an invitational teaching/learning experience--middle school student learners teaching their VIPs (very important persons) how to create stories and construct digital movies with reference to their…

As most college-level instructors would agree, teaching aspiring teachers is no easy task. However, an added challenge presents itself when instructors must "enact" that which they are teaching. Each time public speaking and education professors stand before their college students, they are faced with the task of not only "teaching" the required…

The course described in this article, "Multicultural Mathematics," aims to strengthen and expand students' understanding of fundamental mathematics--number systems, arithmetic, geometry, elementary number theory, and mathematical reasoning--through study of the mathematics of world cultures. In addition, the course is designed to explore the…

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of peer-generated feedback versus visual feedback in inspiring preservice physical education teachers to produce reflections that are more critical than technical. The participants were junior-, senior-, and graduate-level health and physical education majors enrolled in an instructional…

Science 101 was designed by a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional team, with leadership from the Departments of Biology and Teacher Education, and participation by faculty in the Departments of Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics, the College of Engineering, and master teachers from school districts in the state of Illinois. Their goal was to…

In 1968 a five-week cooperative project, which exposed 38 student teaching candidates to the inner-city, was designed and implemented by Miami University and the Cleveland public school system. Observation-participation activities were planned for each student in one of 13 schools, in which he observed a wide variety of school personnel, served as…