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Weiner, Lois – 1999
To help new and prospective urban teachers deal with the practical problems and moral dimensions of the occupation, this book offers advice about successful urban teaching. The chapters are: (1) "A Book of Advice for Prospective and New Urban Teachers"; (2) "What's Different about Teaching in Urban Schools?"; (3) "Dealing with the Urban School…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Moral Values, Preservice Teachers
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Plain, Thomas A. – Clearing House, 1972
Advice to administrators from the assistant director of teacher recruitment for the Chicago public schools. (SP)
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Minority Group Teachers, Teacher Employment, Teacher Recruitment
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Pomilla, Frank R.; Spergel, Martin S. – Physics Teacher, 1971
Directors of a program to increase the number of black and Spanish-speaking students enrolled in physics courses explain its organization and their conclusions. (DS)
Descriptors: College Science, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Physics
Walsh, Huber M. – J Teacher Educ, 1970
Descriptors: Field Experience Programs, Methods Courses, Microteaching, Preservice Teacher Education
Hall, Barbara – Washington Post Magazine, 1999
Describes how gardens can be used to teach children about plants, wildlife, food, and the environment. Illustrates how gardens are established and used in various elementary schools. (CCM)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Environmental Education, Gardening, Hands on Science
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Smiley, Azure Dee – Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2006
Many European American pre-service special education teachers participate in activities and coursework to prepare them to engage with diverse students in urban settings. This qualitative study explores the experience of two teacher candidates taking part in one such program. Specifically, the interactions and perceptions of the participants' first…
Descriptors: Urban Teaching, Multicultural Education, Special Education Teachers, Teaching Experience
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Saffold, Felicia – Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2006
This study explores urban teachers' perception of their mentoring experience in an alternative urban teacher education program. Fifteen teachers who had been teaching in urban schools for at least three years participated in focus groups. The findings support the need for continuing the development of new teachers through utilizing mentors in the…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Mentors, Alternative Teacher Certification
Useem, Elizabeth; And Others – 1995
Among the best examples of the professional development of teachers that has become a key component of systemic educational reform are the curriculum-based teacher networks that have been created and nurtured in public schools by external private and public funders. This study examined the impact of four such networks on teacher renewal and…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development
Crabtree, Mary Frances – Phi Delta Kappan, 1975
Chicago's Metro High curriculum is the city; its learning laboratory is the community; and its lesson is freedom, choice, and responsibility. (Author)
Descriptors: Community Schools, Experimental Schools, Nontraditional Education, Secondary Education
FANTINI, MARIO; WEINSTEIN, GERALD
THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT METHODS OF TEACHING AND MANY DIFFERENT METHODS OF LEARNING. FOR MAXIMUM LEARNING, TEACHING STYLES AND LEARNING STYLES SHOULD BE CONGRUENT, THIS IS ESPECIALLY TRUE WITH THE DISADVANTAGED LEARNER. THE DISADVANTAGED CHILD COMES TO SCHOOL WITH A CERTAIN PERSONALITY, WITH CERTAIN NEEDS, AND WITH CERTAIN BUILT-IN MECHANISMS. HE…
Descriptors: Creative Expression, Disadvantaged Youth, Learning Processes, Student Needs
Temple Univ., Philadelphia, PA. Coll. of Education. – 1969
The most important feature of this 2-year elementary teacher education program, begun in 1966, is the earlier and more direct exposure it offers to inner-city education. To take place before student teaching, it provides for 2 days per week to be spent at one of 12 local cooperating elementary schools, studying teaching methods in specific…
Descriptors: Affiliated Schools, Cooperating Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
Providence Public Schools, RI. – 1969
GRADES OR AGES: Grades 10 and 11. SUBJECT MATTER: Social studies; United States geography and history. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The major portion of the guide is divided into two subunits. The first subunit is laid out in two columns, one each for topics and activities. The second subunit is laid out in three columns, one each for…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Geography, Grade 10, Grade 11
Galvin, Kathleen M. – Massachusetts Communication Journal, 1974
In preparing urban teachers to become effective classroom communicators, urban speech teachers should involve their students in interpersonal communication within an intergroup context whenever possible. Students must be taught to become sensitive to word choice, aware of the importance of verbal and nonverbal codes, and more empathic. To…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Communication Skills, Intergroup Relations, Interpersonal Relationship
Newcombe, Judith Patten – Journal of Physical Education and Recreation, 1977
The Richmond Volleyball Association is an example of a meaningful sports program offered to urban school children and developed as a result of individual physical education student interest. (MJB)
Descriptors: Community Recreation Programs, Physical Activities, Physical Education, Program Development
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Metropolitan Education, 1987
Although American cities have changed and, many feel, declined, they remain important resources for educating. The life and architecture of the cities hold lessons for students from grade school to college. Using the city at hand, the teacher can help to create a new breed of informed, active urban citizens. (KH)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Activities, Municipalities, Postsecondary Education
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