During 1971-72, the College of Education of the University of Toledo undertook the planning for the revision of the entire undergraduate teacher education program in the areas of secondary and elementary education. It was decided that the program should be performance based and interdisciplinary and should unite the urban educational institutions…

This is a second-year report on a program to train college graduates for community college teaching functions with low-income and urban minority students. Four purposes of the program are listed: a) to help train future community college teachers in innovative teaching styles, b) to raise the level of sensitivity among this potentially…

This supplement for pre-service and in-service courses for teachers of elementary social studies or urban education is designed to stimulate a more positive and creative approach toward the teaching of social studies and to offer specific examples of imaginative methods. Written by teachers for teachers, the articles represent a wide range of…

A survey of the accredited teacher education centers in the Region VII states of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska was conducted to answer four questions: (1) What attention has been given to the preparation of educators for the rural and non-urban schools in recent times? (2) Where are the colleges and universities located which are preparing…

Describes briefly the program in Wichita, Kansas, initiated by 11 liberal arts colleges in cooperation with the public and Catholic schools and Kansas State University to prepare teachers for work in urban areas. Includes a series of lessons designed to help students in teacher education programs to cope with their own fears and to help their…

Describes the purpose and operation of the Illinois State University Urban Education Program, an innovative, community-based program designed for teacher trainees planning to teach in urban secondary schools. Some student reactions are included. (Author/SF)

Implications for teacher educators preparing teachers for inner city schools. (Editor)

Outlines in question-and-answer form the main issues of the Newark, New Jersey teacher strike, early 1971. (MB)

A university English department head comments on his teaching experience at a junior high school and on changes in the university's English curriculum and methods to prepare teachers for the public schools. (SW)

Concrete description of the components and operation of an institution based on "a new pattern of teacher education and responsive to community needs, and one which the author envisions as "the logical next step in urban higher education. (JS)

Examines the reorientation process underway at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. Discusses the evolution of the laboratory school in general. Reflects upon the history of the Chicago Laboratory Schools and their theories and practical contributions, and weighs prospects for future educational quality in an urbanized, technological…

Challenges the focus of the second wave of educational reform on improving teaching and teacher education as a solution to economic and social problems. Argues that urban teacher education should prepare teachers to confront the bureaucratic conditions that limit student and teacher success and encourage mutual respect. (FMW)

Discusses educational, research, and policy options for restructuring teachers' knowledge in order to meet demands of the urban schools. Describes the context and changing nature of urban education. (MW)

This article discusses an instructional development system called "holistic" approach, a strategy to improve high school education in Chicago. The initiative includes new curriculum materials, aligned to district standards, as well as assessments and ongoing teacher coaching and training that are designed for the curriculum. The design…

Indiana University Northwest is placing a substantial part of its teacher education program in the schools and communities where its students eventually will be employed. The professional semester is a competency based program organized into a number of modules each of which is planned to develop a different skill. (Author)