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King, Wendy; Edmunds, Alan – Exceptionality Education Canada, 2001
Sixty-one teachers at a junior-senior high school in Nova Scotia responded to measures of inclusion attitudes and knowledge. Results revealed that teachers feel inadequately prepared for inclusion, need specific inclusion training, and feel that reducing workloads and class sizes would help. Significant positive correlations were found between…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Inclusive Schools, Inservice Teacher Education
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Shannon, David M. – Professional Educator, 1994
Reports a study that investigated the effects of professional coursework and clinical experience on the development of preservice teachers' knowledge. Surveys supported the contribution of professional coursework to the development of pedagogical knowledge but showed limited support for the contribution of student teaching. (SM)
Descriptors: College Students, Education Courses, Education Majors, Educational Research
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Bencze, Larry; Hodson, Derek – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1999
Describes how two teachers collaborated with a university-based researcher/teacher educator to design and implement more authentic science in a grade 7 classroom. Discusses the ways in which the teachers changed their views about science and science teaching, the anxieties they experienced, and the institutional constraints that impacted their…
Descriptors: Action Research, College School Cooperation, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Smith, Deborah C.; Anderson, Charles W. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1999
Describes a physics course designed to engage preservice elementary teachers in the practices and discourses of science through activities that would later be used with children. Presents an account of preservice teachers' progress in inventing and testing models, working with empirical data, critically evaluating and using authoritative sources,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Course Descriptions, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Education
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Otis-Wilborn, Amy; Winn, Judith; Ford, Alison; Keyes, Maureen – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2000
This article provides an overview of standards that have been developed for special educators, shares the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee program standards, discusses the ways in which they are used in teacher preparation, and suggests ways in which practicing teachers could use these or similar standards for ongoing professional development.…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Gibson, Susan; Nocente, Norma – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1998
A survey of 963 undergraduates and 27 faculty members in the University of Alberta (Canada) teacher education program found that computers were most often used as a personal productivity tool and not integrated into the curriculum. Deterrents to use of instructional technology by university staff were lack of funding, lack of time to learn new…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, College Faculty, Computer Attitudes, Computer Literacy
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Reading Teacher, 2000
Provides a research-based description of the distinguishing qualities of excellent classroom reading teachers. Discusses what excellent reading teachers know about reading development, how they assess student progress, what kinds of reading materials they use in their classrooms, how they organize classrooms for instruction, and how they interact…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Excellence in Education
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McCutchen, Deborah; Abbott, Robert D.; Green, Laura B.; Beretvas, S. Natasha; Cox, Susanne; Potter, Nina S.; Quiroga, Teresa; Gray, Audra L. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2002
A study investigated the effects of a 2-week summer institute that taught kindergarten and first-grade teachers (n=44) about learning disabilities and effective instruction, stressing the importance of explicit instruction in phonological and orthographic awareness. First-graders taught by trained teachers outperformed controls on phonological…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary School Teachers, Inservice Teacher Education, Kindergarten
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Bos, Candace S.; Mather, Nancy; Narr, Rachel Friedman; Babur, Nalan – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1999
This study investigated the effectiveness of Project RIME, a project designed to support teachers in integrating more explicit instruction for children at-risk for reading failure into their curricula. Although the 11 teachers became more positive and knowledgeable toward using explicit instruction, their orientation toward implicit and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Emergent Literacy
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Feiman-Nemser, Sharon – Teachers College Record, 2001
Proposes a curriculum for teacher learning over time, examining the fit between conventional teacher education, induction, professional development, and the challenges of learning to teach in reform-minded ways. The paper examines: central tasks of teacher preparation, induction, and development; how well conventional arrangements address these…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
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Koppich, Julia E. – Education Next, 2005
It is by now a familiar story, often told as a lament: teachers in United States continue to be paid according to the single salary schedule. They accrue better pay on the basis of years of experience and college units earned. Units may or may not be related to teaching assignment. Some districts have modestly tweaked this arrangement by paying a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Unions, School Districts, National Standards
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Jensen, Mary A. – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2004
In the present political climate, politicians are singling out children's programs and services for budget cuts. The need for teacher education programs to prepare early childhood teachers as children's advocates is becoming ever more evident. For years, the National Association for the Education of Young Children has called for greater…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Early Childhood Education, Motivation
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Buck, Robert E. – PRIMUS, 2004
One of the major problems facing education today is the inadequate mathematics' preparation of pre-college students and their teachers. Most colleges and universities have well established programs for students planning to teach mathematics at the secondary schools; however, in many institutions pre-secondary mathematics has been addressed only…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Certification, Middle School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers
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Oztap, Haydar; Ozay, Esra; Oztap, Fulya – Journal of Biological Education, 2003
This study examines the difficulties biology teachers face when teaching cell division in the secondary schools of the central part of the Erzurum province in Turkey. During this research, a questionnaire was distributed to a total of 36 secondary school biology teachers. Findings of the study indicate biology teachers perceive cell division as…
Descriptors: Biology, Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Teaching Skills
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Randi, Judi; Zeichner, Kenneth M. – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2004
Consistent with the conception of teaching as a learning profession, the authors' vision of a professional teacher workforce is one in which teachers do take responsibility for their own learning--their work. Supporting teachers' transition from workers to learners may require learning opportunities of a different type--work opportunities offered…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Characteristics, Staff Development
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