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Howard Univ., Washington, DC. School of Education. – 1972
Contrary to the statement in the title, Part 2 of the summary of Institute proceedings is concerned with the period from August 7, 1971, to August 31, 1972. It reports the results of an opinionnaire taken the last day Institute participants were assembled at Howard, and the uses to which the participants put their Institute experience after they…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Disadvantaged, Institutes (Training Programs)
Carlson, Kenneth – 1970
This is a brief personal review of the Rutgers University urban internship program which is operated in conjunction with the New Jersey Urban Education Corps. The purpose of the program is to prepare liberal arts graduates to be secondary school teachers in urban areas. The recruiting of the interns took place mostly at black colleges and…
Descriptors: Black Teachers, Disadvantaged Schools, Field Experience Programs, Internship Programs
Eash, Maurice J. – 1971
This paper reports the results of a comprehensive curriculum evaluation of an academy founded to assist black drop-outs. Designed to determine the effects of the educational program on the student body and to lay bare the major constructs in the instructional and curriculum designs, the study employed a modified Shufflebeam curriculum evaluation…
Descriptors: Blacks, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Dropout Programs
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. – 1968
The Urban Teacher Corps was developed to attract and train young men and women to teach in inner-city schools and simultaneously to have them experiment with and develop curriculum materials appropriate to urban youngsters, particularly in terms of increased motivation and involvement. The three essential components of the training program which…
Descriptors: Inner City, Internship Programs, Master Teachers, Practicum Supervision
Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. – 1970
To prepare prospective elementary teachers for inner-city schools, this program was initiated at the University of Minnesota. Background knowledge concerning the family, the child, and the community gives the student teachers an understanding of the sources of problems encountered in inner-city classrooms. Resource people from the community and…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Differentiated Staffs, Inner City
Ramsey, Wallace Z. – 1969
The objectives of this survey were (1) the examination of five major inner-city reading programs, (2) consultation with school officials in those cities concerning the nature of a training program in reading, (3) the designing of a reading teacher education program for the inner city, and (4) the publication of the findings. Procedures used in the…
Descriptors: Black Students, De Facto Segregation, Disadvantaged Youth, Inner City
Soptick, John M.; Clothier, Grant M. – 1974
The Cooperative Urban Teacher Education (CUTE) Project was initiated in 1967 by the Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL) to design an intensive, field-oriented undergraduate program to prepare effective teachers for inner-city schools. The results is a 16-week program which is conducted during the student teaching semester and…
Descriptors: Diffusion, Educational Innovation, Information Dissemination, Preservice Teacher Education
Nickerson, Jacquelyn; And Others – 1973
This is a report on off-campus, community-based urban teacher education programs in three of the Metropolitan areas in Michigan: Detroit, Pontiac, and Flint. The described purpose of the program is to provide a new teacher with experience for working with urban youth in a changing society, to develop leaders who possess a "feel" for the…
Descriptors: Community Education, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Laboratory Schools
Wisniewski, Richard, Ed. – 1972
The purpose of this yearbook is to examine key aspects of American urban society, to identify issues that are central to all social studies instruction about the city, and to present specific ideas on how teachers can teach about these issues both inside and outside the classroom. Fifteen social scientists and educators contributed articles to the…
Descriptors: Black Community, Social Action, Social Problems, Social Studies
Youngs, Peter – 1999
This paper reports on a study of the impact of an integrated teacher education program for diversity on two beginning teachers and considers the challenges involved in investigating the impact of such programs. The study examined four elementary school teachers in their first or second year of teaching who were working in schools that served high…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Diversity (Student), Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
Seldin, Amy – 1999
This paper describes the teaching of an African American educator and her fifth-grade classroom in an elementary school in a working class neighborhood. The paper presents the results of a qualitative study of what makes the teaching of this teacher exceptional. Of the 17 students in this class, 7 speak English as a Second Language. Some are…
Descriptors: Black Teachers, Cultural Awareness, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
Haberman, Martin – 2000
Urban teachers need a set of attributes that enable them to connect with children and youth in poverty and to function in dysfunctional school districts. The Milwaukee Teacher Education Center's (MTEC's) urban mission is to prepare educators to teach in the real world classroom of urban schools. For example, teachers are prepared to work toward…
Descriptors: Diversity (Student), Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Multicultural Education
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Bey, Theresa M. – Education and Urban Society, 1995
As dispensers of information, mentors can support teachers through career stages from recruitment to retirement. This article explores mentorships as transferable transactions. This concept is particularly valuable in urban areas, where teachers unacquainted with physical and cultural conditions may replicate the practices of seasoned mentors.…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Cultural Awareness, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
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Hinckley, June – Music Educators Journal, 1995
Contends that the nature of U.S. urban life has created profound challenges for urban schools. Asserts that music educators must examine innovative trends in policy, programming, and curricula to determine how music can contribute to better schools and a better quality of life in urban areas. (CFR)
Descriptors: Community Cooperation, Community Involvement, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
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Lewison, Mitzi – Reading Teacher, 1999
Describes what happened and what was learned when 13 urban elementary school teachers, their principal, and a researcher embarked on a year-long inquiry project that involved meeting as a monthly study group, reading articles, and keeping journals about their teaching. Discusses the contradictions and dilemmas of keeping journals, and rethinks…
Descriptors: Dialog Journals, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Faculty Development
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