Considers how teacher education programs can prepare their students with the variety of teaching skills they will need to meet diverse learner needs. (SJL)

This paper reports the results of a pilot in-service teacher training program undertaken in China from 2001 to 2004. Upon completion, the in-service teachers were awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree (non-honor) specializing in English Language Education. Many interesting findings resulted from this pilot program. By integrating low- and…

A cross-matched list of teaching competencies was derived from the Florida Essential Competencies List and the Carey Validation of Self-Evaluation Procedures for Identifying Instructional Needs of Teacher Centers. This list of teaching skills was then used to determine competencies embedded in four models of teaching--a creative process model, a…

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…

Although there is now great interest in the improvement of teaching in colleges and universities, merit as judged in these institutions is based much more on the evaluation of scholarly and research activities than on teaching performance, and salaries are determined by the reputation of one's work rather than one's teaching. One's writing can be…

To meet the problem of preparing teachers to work in a variety of settings with a wide range of behaviorally disordered children, a framework for teacher preparation is needed which includes competence in educational assessment, remedial teaching, and behavior management. ( Author/SBH)

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)

Argues that recent research on teachers' thinking about their work underestimates the complexity of teachers' verbal report data. Suggests that a closer examination of the nature of verbal reports and a more critical analysis of the models used to explore teachers' thinking is required in order to achieve conceptual advances in this research.…

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)

Progress has been made in the understanding of teaching and learning, but the long-standing prejudice against the study of pedagogy remains. It is argued that we are at a critical juncture; we can continue to blame school personnel or we can be prepared to make necessary changes. (MT)

Traditionally, the doctorate has been the major criterion for initial employment in higher education, not familiarity with learning theory, teaching strategies, or assessment of learning. Medical education is now breaking the mold by recruiting into a contest field professionals from psychology and education who have specialized in the improvement…

The student's responsibility is to be interested, the teacher's is not to block interest. (Editor)

Article based on address at American Society for Engineering Education's Pacific Southwest Section Effective Teaching Institute at University of Southern California. (IR)

Suggestions for instructors caught in a bind between responsibility to subject -and-schedule and need to give time to individual students. Based on ideas presented in workshop of Educational Research and Methods Division, Pennsylvania State University, June 1969. (IR)