Argues that most teacher education faculties are not geared for educating their clientele for urban systems. Offers some suggestions as to what has to be done before the situation can be improved. (RJ)

Proposes that a systems-management point of view be taken in revising present teacher education programs. (JM)

Surveys teacher employment applications in a large city in order to identify those characteristics and abilities that school districts look for in beginning teachers. Urges prospective teachers to learn what school districts want in a teacher and become aware of what they themselves have to offer. (FL)

Teacher educators can become more active in urban schooling by: (1) recognizing that recent historical events have changed the forms of urban schooling; (2) accepting the basic differences in ideology between people in urban schools and those in colleges of education; and (3) reorganizing the priorities of teacher education programs. (JN)

Zeichner, a teacher educator specializing in multicultural and moral education, discusses his educational background and his continuous efforts to raise the issues of equity and social justice to students preparing to become teachers. He explains the importance of reflective teaching and action research which emphasize respect for the teacher.…

This article suggests some reasons why an urban education project in Australia might inform current debates surrounding teacher education. The first section provides a brief overview of the Australian education system from 1950--1980 as a way of introducing the larger historical context in which teacher education is situated. The second part…

Independent neighborhood schools in inner-city areas serve primarily minority students. They are in a position to assist American educators in understanding the best methods of teaching minorities who usually do not reach their full academic potential in public schools. Teachers in independent schools use culture and sometimes religion as a basis…

Describes an inservice workshop designed to reduce the anxiety that teachers feel when placed in a threatening environment and to help them become less dogmatic. Results indicate that short training sessions can reduce the level of dogmatism of new inner-city teachers. (Author/HMV)

This transcript of a National Public Radio broadcast discusses current affairs in the area of physical education (PE) in United States school programs. Topics covered include: differences between American PE today and its European forerunners, creativity in PE, dance and movement, inner city PE, PE teacher education, financing priorities for…

About one-fourth of the undergraduate student body of 1,200 at Fisk University expect to teach; most of them will teach in inner city schools. Therefore, teacher education at Fisk University has been conditioned mainly by the trend of urbanization in American life. Every prospective teacher is required to gain a solid foundation in the liberal…

The Fifth Cycle Teacher Corps Project was undertaken by the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle to a) fulfill a stated mission of a university especially created to help resolve urban problems, b) find effective ways to help an inner-city community utilize its own resources, and c) conduct research on the effective uses of evaluation in…