This article describes the middle grades teacher preparation program at Augusta State University in Georgia. It describes the negotiation between the middle school concept and the standardized testing culture of the local schools as the faculty redesigned the undergraduate middle grades program to adequately address both. Ways in which new…

Describes an innovative national program, the Child Development Associate Program, designed to prepare a new category of child care worker--the Child Development Associate--and how this program is being implemented in Hawaii. (Editor/RK)

Presents observations of how a particular teacher education program, the Open Education Alternative Program at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada, incorporates the acquisition of teaching skills into the "reflective" practice of these skills. (BB)

Conceptualization and implementation of a program to train university teaching assistants at McGill University (Quebec) are described. The systematic approach to program development included needs assessment, planning and implementation, and evaluation. The relationship between various levels of the institution and the way in which they have…

The Education Industry Exchange Program was initiated (1) to provide nonvocational industrial arts teachers with industrial skill training to teach trade and industrial subjects (to be accomplished through a graduate education program in cooperation with industry), (2) to enable craftspersons and skilled workers who were interested in teaching…

The effects of Computer-Assisted Teacher Training System (CATTS) feedback in a preservice special education teacher training program are discussed. It is explained that a series of studies were conducted to test the efficacy of CATTS feedback in effecting teacher trainees' acquisition and performance of specific teaching skills. Chapter 1 presents…

This document describes the mentoring relationship from the perspectives of several virtual schools that have built mentoring programs to assist their new teachers. Each school's mentoring program is unique and has been designed specifically for the school's staff, size, and instructional approach. These schools have learned that a successful…