This report discusses relevant theories and principles of curriculum, pedagogy, and social organization of middle schools in order to serve as a focus for further research and development in teacher education. The first section of the three-part report concentrates on teachers' work with middle school students, and the challenges they face in…

This paper proposes eight direct and three indirect ways for college and university departments to share the responsibility for better social studies instruction through improved teacher education, principally by teaching the student how to relate the content gained in social studies courses to the teaching methods presented in education courses.…

Team teaching consists of four major types of teams emerging in the public school staffing patterns: (a) interdisciplinary groupings of teachers with diversified specialties; (b) groupings of teachers with instructional aides, paraprofessionals, and volunteers; (c) teams focusing on specific subject matter areas and related curriculum development…

Author suggests that team teaching is here to stay and offers ten ways that will increase the chances for its success. (Author/RK)

Article describes the implementation of a model for teacher education based on a college faculty, public school staff, graduate, and undergraduate students which provides selected experiences based on the needs of all participants. (GB)

BET (Beginning and Experienced Teachers) is an acronym for an inservice program for inner city teachers in Buffalo, New York, schools. (DS)

"Blocking" is an alternative model for teacher education in which faculty take existing courses and field experiences, integrate the learning concepts, and through variable time structuring, mode flexibility, synthesis of theory and practice, and experiential instruction present a "block" of consecutive, team-taught courses. (MB)

The teachers of the future will be members of a team, with preparation beginning at the teacher aide level, then to part-time employment with teaching teams, then preservice education and inservice continuing education. (MB)

Describes the continuation of a project that used collaborative technologies to team teach elementary science methods courses across three different public institutions. Student outcomes for the project indicate positive change in comfort with technology and understanding science education issues. (Author/MM)

Used the experiences of three preservice teachers and the experiences of the researchers to characterize the gap between theory and prescriptions for teaching and every day practice. Illustrates how P. Bourdieu's notion of "habitus," a set of dispositions, accounts for appropriate actions in situations where there is no time for…

An education program designed to provide experiences for graduate students that would prepare them to teach at the college level is described. The practicum courses offered were developed to bring theoretical and practical aspects of undergraduate teacher education into a clear and interacting relationship and to help students in applying what…