Examined data from a surveys and interviews with British Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) staff and students about participation of ethnic minorities in PGCE, noting students': motives for entering teaching, images of teaching, factors influencing their choice, training experiences, and perceptions of constraints on minority…

Discusses the use of student teachers' reflective story writing to generate cases for future physical education teacher education courses. After describing what reflective writing and case studies are, the article explains one method of developing stories and using them as cases, providing three examples of actual reflective cases. (SM)

Despite criticisms of teacher education, recent evidence indicates that teachers with the most preparation are the most confident and successful. Teacher education reforms creating more tightly integrated programs with extended clinical preparation interwoven with coursework on learning and teaching produce more effective, resilient teachers.…

Factors that make teaching and teacher education so difficult include: client cooperation; compulsory clientele; emotion management; structural isolation; and chronic uncertainty about teaching effectiveness. Issues that make teacher education particularly difficult include: the long apprenticeship of observation; ordinary skills and knowledge;…

Proposes three problems that must be solved in order to best prepare teachers who both know content and can make use of it to help all students learn, including: identifying the content knowledge that matters for teaching; understanding how such knowledge needs to be held; and determining what it takes to learn to use such knowledge in practice.…

Eight members of the education community (e.g., students, teachers, college faculty, and administrators) respond to a question about the impact of high-stakes testing of teachers and students on teaching and teacher education. Their responses focus on such issues as test bias, at-risk students, specific state responses, and testing of students…

Describes a 19-month, graduate, alternative teacher certification program for urban middle and high school teachers that can lead to teacher certification, or with additional coursework, a master's degree. Data from interviews and focus groups with graduate students, principals, and site mentors indicate that the program is successful in…

Discusses whether liberal arts is a costly, elitist program or excellent preparation for the future's flexible knowledge-based economy, examining: pressures on today's college students; dissatisfaction with a system that does not emphasize general education; new conversations about liberal learning's role in today's changing world; Carnegie…

Describes the University of Kentucky's Masters with Initial Certification program, which helps preservice secondary teachers integrate theory and practice during 1 field-based, professional year, integrating diverse components of teacher education. The program developed as a response to the 1990 Kentucky Education Reform Act and a result of a…

Presents an evaluation of the use of videoconferencing in learning and teaching in an undergraduate degree program for student teachers in the United Kingdom. Students observed naturalistic teaching practices in a primary school and results of interviews with students and teachers were used to evaluate the effectiveness of the videoconferencing…

Studies the performance of freshmen biology and physics-mathematics majors and chemistry majors as well as pre- and in-service chemistry teachers at two Israeli universities on algorithmic (ALG), lower-order cognitive skills (LOCS), and higher-order cognitive skills (HOCS) chemistry exam questions. Finds that students in both universities…

Describes how one college of education built its computer infrastructure and technology expertise. Essential in this process were a commitment on the part of the dean, significant funding, technology training sessions, and the expertise of technology specialists. The integration of technology throughout this college has positioned it to become an…

Discusses the relationship between health literacy and advocacy for health and health education, identifying health advocacy competencies for students and teachers, delineating health education's role in developing health-literate citizens and training health educators as advocates, and examining recent initiatives in school health education and…

Reports on a collaborative project to explore the work of teacher educators as an effort to reconstruct a stance as teachers in relation to students. Shares the discovery of the ironic in desires for authoritative knowledge, effective methods, coherent organization, and harmonic relationships. (CMK)

Examined the value of an instructional talk analysis tool (ITAT) in developing teachers' awareness of their instructional talk. Fifteen students from a reading practicum course participated in either ITAT plus debriefing, ITAT only, or alternative tool only. Discourse analyses and written reflections indicated that ITAT plus debriefing teachers…