This article investigates local curricular plans and job advertisements of institutions offering music in generalist teacher education (GTE) in Norway. The aim is to identify the values and ideologies represented locally in the music subject in terms of how content, learning outcomes, activities and assessment forms are prioritised and how working…

There is a national shortage of nurses and nurse educators, but thousands of qualified applicants do not enter nursing schools each year because of the limited number of nurse educators, clinical preceptors, and clinical sites. Schools of nursing employ adjunct faculty from clinical practice to fill faculty vacancies, but these expert clinicians…

Turkey launched what is known as the 12-Year Compulsory Education Act in the 2012-2013 Fall term. This initiative has received criticism from different stakeholders, specifically from educators, who are among the most affected. Criticism from teachers shows a discrepancy between what is being changed and what teachers believe should be changed.…

Newly-hired faculty and their needs have been studied in various arenas in higher education. However, there is limited research documenting current newly-hired faculty programming in Canadian institutions of higher education. The present study is the second in a series that attempts to capture the various types of professional development programs…

The goal of this study was to create an evaluation tool that would be the new standard for evaluating clinical competencies of interns in the field of orientation and mobility (O&M). Using results from previous research in this area, specific competency skills were identified and the O&M Clinical Competency Evaluation Matrix (CCEM) was…

Twenty scholarly papers and fifteen abstracts comprise the content of the twelfth annual Brick and Click Libraries Symposium, held at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. The peer-reviewed proceedings, authored by academic librarians and presented at the symposium, portray the contemporary and future face of librarianship.…

This paper describes how the Georgia model program for preparing elementary teachers (ED 025 491) will appear to a student participant when the model has moved from conceptualization to reality. Various preprofessional phases are described in the nine sections: (1) Recruitment, of the high school senior; (2) Application and Admission, including…

A discussion of a six-week summer workshop for prospective teachers and aides which, it is felt, provides valuable preliminary training for high-potential applicants. (RY)

Education needed for university teaching is discussed in terms of general education, academic specialization, and professional preparation. A 1-term orientation course required for new lecturers and professors, open to others, at the University of Ife, Nigeria, is described which includes lectures, seminars, and workshops on university objectives…

The present report on courses in English for speakers of other languages lists 301 academic-year offerings at 299 institutions and 125 summer offerings including separate orientation programs at 114 institutions. Also listed are degree and certificate programs in English for speakers of other languages offered at 44 institutions and 29 other…

This self-instructional module, one of 16 on techniques for coordinating work experience programs, provides preservice and inservice educational materials for teacher-coordinators supervising on-the-job training. The two goals for this module are to understand student rules and regulations for on-the-job training and to understand how to orient…

A videotaped presentation was produced as a collaborative effort involving university professors, students, and field center faculty members. The following items are addressed: production development, the summative assessment checklist, program segments, product utilization, assessment steps and participant reactions. (Author)