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Newman, Katherine – Education Next, 2009
Family Partnerships for Achievement is not a course typical of most master's programs in education. The course was designed with one overriding goal: to prepare teachers to be effective in the Boston Public Schools (BPS). This goal drives every aspect of the Boston Teacher Residency (BTR), a district-based program for teacher training and…
Descriptors: Teacher Interns, Certification, Alternative Teacher Certification, Family Involvement
Barnes, Carol P.; Tierney, Dennis S. – 1983
In an effort to address the problem of developing constructive suggestions for change in teacher education programs, a survey was taken of the member institutions of the California Council on the Education of Teachers, which offered a basic teaching credential. The survey found all institutions used multiple admission criteria; virtually none…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Admission Criteria, Education Majors, Educational Quality
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Ward-Steinman, Patrice Madura – International Journal of Music Education, 2006
An urban university music education department and an outreach organization partnered to provide after-school music classes for at-risk children. Fourteen music education majors were recruited to teach 125 first through fifth graders (6-12 years of age), whose ethnicity was 55 percent Hispanic and 45 percent African-American. Classes included…
Descriptors: Education Majors, Schools of Education, Ethnicity, Music Education