Despite conflicting strategies for shifts in decision-making power in educating and licensing teachers, various studies of teacher education agree on the need for experimentation in teacher education and uncertainty with respect to what knowledge is most pertinent to the professional preparation of teachers. Newer developments in the systematic…

This report presents the results of the program evaluation of Ball State University Teacher's College's Teachers of the Disadvantaged (TOD) program. The students in this program take special courses and have special training intended to qualify them to teach children from lower socio-economic groups. Sixty-six elementary teachers who had been…

This study was intended as a follow-up evaluation of Project COPE, a Glassboro State College program designed to provide junior year elementary education students experience in teaching culturally disadvantaged children, and to motivate them to continue this type of teaching after graduation. The procedure involved testing and collecting survey…

Founded on a review of literature, this study compares the personality characteristics of graduate students entering the field of special education (SP) and those entering elementary education (EE). Within the field of special education, a comparison was also made between graduate students specializing in emotional disturbance (ED) and those…

Elementary education majors might be better able to guide children in self-directed learning if they are exposed to such an experience in their formal training. A reading methods course stressing self-directed learning is described and a bibliography is provided. (JMD)

Achievement scores of student teachers in the areas of science, humanities, and social studies on tests of five process skills are compared. Fifty-four subjects were assigned to treatment (auto-tutorial) and control (lecture-discussion) groups. Subjects experiencing auto-tutorial instruction were found to achieve significantly higher than those in…

Demonstrations to graduate education students on the use of the ERIC database for research of children's literature materials involved using the thesaurus and subject indexes. Electronic searches served as follow-up to the classroom instruction, and the advantages of online searching were illustrated through various approaches used to retrieve…

The results of a questionnaire administered to 125 preservice teacher education students (68 secondary education majors and 57 elementary education majors) are discussed. The questionnaire surveyed demographic information and student experience in multicultural coursework, settings, and personal experience. (JL)

The output of education degrees at both the undergraduate and graduate levels between academic years 1972-73 and 1985-86 was examined. The decline was most precipitous at the undergraduate level and had the least impact at the doctorate level. (MLW)

Instructional resources for teacher preparation are too thinly distributed and improperly structured to justify the numbers of institutions now engaging in such programs. The next decades should see a substantial reduction in the number of teacher preparation programs and institutions. (Author/MSE)

The purpose of this study was to provide cross-cultural validation evidence about the factorial structure, reliability, and correlates of the Attitudes Toward Mainstreaming Scale for samples of education students, teachers-in-training, and elementary school teachers in New Zealand. (Author/PN)

The University of Washington College of Education requires its students to take two courses on socioethnicity. But many future teachers elect courses focused on their own particular social or ethnic group. Thus, like other teacher colleges, Washington must find new methods of preparing students to teach in our culturally diverse society. (KH)

The troubleshooting flow chart is a tool used in a "contributions" course for student teachers that served to make educational psychology and sociology relevant for teaching practice. Theoretical aspects of this approach are discussed. (DF)

Research data on field experience supervision of student teachers indicate a need for more critical analysis of the interrelationships among student teacher, cooperating teacher, and university supervisor. Statistical research does not measure subtle changes in preservice teachers or the supervisory practices that may have influenced the changes.…

This article reports on the introduction of Competency Based Teacher Education concepts into the curriculum of the Department of Science Education at the University of Georgia. (MB)