This study guide was developed for individuals preparing to take the Georgia Teacher Certification Test (TCT) in science. Content objectives of the test are listed and encompass: (1) scientific processes, research, and classification; (2) earth sciences; (3) characteristics and properties of matter, energy, and chemical change; (4) biology of life…

This document contains the proceedings of a research conference on health occupations of education and includes an agenda of the conference, a list of co-sponsors, and 10 papers: "The Need for Research in Education of Human Service Workers" (C. Junge); "Status of Health Occupations Teacher Certification" (C. Chappelka);…

The National Teacher Examinations (NTE), were first administered in 1940. Teacher examinations had existed in the United States since colonial New England. During the late 1920's, intelligence tests became popular; teaching aptitude, subject matter competence, and knowledge of testing were also measured. In 1931, a cooperative program of the…

The regular certification of arts and science graduates who have not completed the necessary professional education courses has become state policy recently in several states and others are considering it. These four studies provide data on two research questions related to this policy: (1) What, if any, differences in scores on teacher…

This monograph presents 1981-82 data on the supply of and demand for teachers and the status of currently active teachers in Utah. Statistics are presented in tabular form. Section I provides information on: (1) total number of professional personnel; (2) ethnic and racial background; (3) certification and training; (4) professional experience;…

THE CHARACTERISTICS AND PERCEPTIONS OF TRADE AND TECHNICAL TEACHERS IN CALIFORNIA ARE REPORTED AND ANALYZED. THE DESCRIPTION OF CHARACTERISTICS IS BASED ON 1,587 RESPONSES DRAWN FROM THE TOTAL POPULATION OF TRADE AND TECHNICAL TEACHERS CREDENTIALED TO TEACH FULL TIME IN CALIFORNIA IN SEPTEMBER 1966. THE PERCEPTIONS ARE BASED ON THE RESPONSES OF…

Innovation in inservice education and training of teachers (INSET) is examined within the context of the general pattern of teacher education in Canada and by means of two case studies of INSET programs--Perfectionnement des Maitreseen Mathematiques (PERMAMA) and the Atlantic Institute of Education (AIE). It is stated that, at present, most INSET…

The problem of finding adequately prepared teachers in public schools is determined to be directly related to school size and grade level in this study. Tables illustrating this principle are derived from a state-wide survey of Iowan junior and senior high schools concerning teaching assignments in the communicative arts during the first semester…

The quality of teacher preparation is frequently under public scrutiny. In this collection, experts in literacy teacher preparation offer ten truths--based on evidence, not ideology-- that support the ongoing positive efforts of teacher educators. In this book, the reader will find: A review of the existing knowledge base; Evidence of the improved…

Teacher education must become a profession by initiating significant changes, requiring perceptual shifts, in training models. Needed are a generalist-specialist training model; recognition that program graduates are not qualified practitioners of the teaching profession until satisfactory completion of a two-year residency; and coordination among…

Observes the changes in public education that occurred along the Wisconsin frontier. As the territory progressed, education changed from a winter-term only enterprise lead by male farmer/teachers to a full term lead by professionally trained women teachers. Identifies professionalization as the greatest influence on the feminization of teaching.…

Maintains that the content, skills, and perspectives specified for preservice teacher education in the National Geography Standards are essential for dissemination of the Standards to classrooms across the nation. Presents a model curriculum based on this approach. (CFR)

Examines instructional strategies for improving the education of English language learners. The strategies reviewed were ESL in the Content Areas, Effective Use of Time (EUOT), and a combination of the other two. The EUOT group had the highest scores on reading and language arts achievement and the combined treatment group, the lowest. (34…

Describes programs that focus on preparing and retaining highly qualified teachers in schools serving California's impoverished urban and rural children. The Governor's Teacher Scholar programs emerged as a result a commitment by California's governor and the University of California's president to address teacher quality and teacher shortage…

This study draws from the National Center for Early Development and Learning's Multi-State Pre-Kindergarten Study to examine the extent to which program, classroom, and teacher attributes of the program ecology predict observed quality and teacher-child interactions in a sample of 238 classrooms representing 6 states' pre-kindergarten programs.…