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Cavanagh, Sean – Education Week, 2008
More than 400 educators in the Miami-Dade County, Florida, school system take part in a professional-development and curriculum program that attempts to build students' science knowledge while also helping them master English. Developed by researchers at the University of Miami, the Promoting Science among English Language Learners program…
Descriptors: Knowledge Base for Teaching, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teaching Skills, Teacher Characteristics
Jacobson, Linda – Education Week, 2005
In this article, the author discusses a partnership between Baylor University and the Waco public schools that embeds every teacher-candidate--from the freshman year on--into the K-12 system. To test whether professional-development schools, modeled after teaching hospitals, can be scaled up so that all of a college's teaching candidates--not just…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Teacher Education, Urban Schools