Examines how one university institutionalized the Professional Development School (PDS) model. Data from interviews, document analysis, and critical discourse analysis of surrounding texts indicate that the PDS is a complicated reform model, and there is a tendency to valorize institutional efforts and results. The origin of the reform model…

Describes an arts-based approach to the study of multicultural education that challenges pre-service students to address various relevant topics while enabling an aesthetic understanding of the issues. Examines how the creation of artwork serves as a personal act of meaning-making for students, allowing them to create a vision for a project of…

Describes a project in which preservice training for high school math teachers was conducted via two-way videoconferencing. Two uses were tested: teachers seeing in real time what takes place in a classroom before, during, and after a well-placed task is implemented; and teachers planning and implementing a task in a team-teaching format. (AEF)

This introductory article to the issue, which focuses on the preparation of special education teachers, discusses the different perspectives of winners of the Teacher Education Division Publication Award. Evaluates whether special education departments should work with general education in teacher preparation. Provides list of winners and their…

Focuses on introductory courses in special education teacher preparation and the need to include systematic presentation of highly current topics, events, and interrelationships from factor fields, including economics, sociology, law, government, ethics, politics, and medicine. Discusses the need to assist beginning students in making analytical…

This study addressed whether early childhood teacher education programs can effectively prepare graduates to work with children across the entire 0-8 years age span, by profiling two student teachers. Data from their final practicums suggested that generalist programs can offer effective preparation for entry into the early childhood teaching…

Shrinking budgets, demands for supervisory contact, and the rural isolation of Indiana University of Pennsylvania create special problems for pre student-teaching and student teaching. Describes a proposed project that will use interactive video technology to supervise student-teaching practica in distant locations. Outlines project phases,…

Proposes a way of thinking that integrates technology into elementary education. Describes the first four years of efforts at the University of Colorado at Denver to integrate technology into its preservice teacher education program. Outlines information and learning technologies skills, knowledge, and attitudes for two teacher training courses.…

Describes a reflexive approach to technology training for preservice teachers blending elements from competency-based and integrative models so that students use technology as learner and teacher. Discusses technology portfolios as an instructional strategy, metacognitive strategies for self-understanding, and modeling and peer tutoring. (PEN)

Ninety preservice teachers completed the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI), a diagnostic inventory of 10 scales, before and after an educational psychology course that included learning strategies instruction. By course completion, student LASSI mean scores improved on six scales but continued to show a need for remediation. Scores…

Reports on a study that examines the beliefs and attitudes of prospective primary school teachers with respect to the learning and teaching of mathematics. Concludes that some of these beliefs impede reform efforts. Contains 16 references. (DDR)

Examines one teacher's constructivist practice in a preservice teacher education mathematics class in order to unearth a deeper understanding of "constructing meaning" within the context of power-laden discourse. Examines how the teacher undertook an inquiry into poststructuralist theory of knowledge, asserting that it may provide new…

Examines how preservice second language teachers navigate through the difficulties of introducing cooperative learning into their classrooms during student teaching, despite the fact that this approach differs from their cooperating teachers' customary teaching strategy. (Author/VWL)

Eastern Kentucky University's secondary teacher education program revised a general methods course and content specific methods courses to increase student teachers' effectiveness. Curricular change included more emphasis on classroom management, professional development, and instructional technology. Participant surveys investigated whether the…

Discusses the connection of service learning competencies to nationally recognized beginning teacher standards, such as Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC), providing two examples of strategies that various teacher education programs have used to infuse service learning pedagogy into courses while addressing INTASC…