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Brown, Christopher P.; Weber, Natalie Babiak – Action in Teacher Education, 2016
The public education system in the United States continues to struggle in educating children of diverse backgrounds. Many have addressed this issue by documenting how certain practices teach children particular types of knowledge and skills. This developmental focus on what should be happening to children of diverse backgrounds tends to ignore the…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Public Education, Professional Development, Qualitative Research
Street, Chris; Stang, Kristin – Action in Teacher Education, 2008
This article provides a conceptual basis for a teacher preparation course designed to improve the writing skills and teaching practices of in-service teachers. To propose this course, we first examined the research on preparing all secondary in-service teachers to use writing well. Research suggests that teachers' histories as writers greatly…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Student Surveys, Educational Change, Writing Skills
Barnett, Michael – Action in Teacher Education, 2008
Within the past few years, there have been numerous studies that suggest that preservice teachers need and want opportunities to observe, visit, interact, and collaboratively reflect with teachers who are attempting to implement reform-based teaching strategies. Unfortunately, for many schools of education, it is logistically difficult to locate a…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Beginning Teachers, Professional Development

Weiler, Patricia J. – Action in Teacher Education, 1980
Ways that teacher centers can help teachers deal with their problems are explored. (JD)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Federal Aid, Participant Satisfaction, Professional Development
Simmons, Shirley A. – Action in Teacher Education, 2005
Alternative routes to teacher certification have evolved over the last 20 years as a response to real and perceived shortages of qualified teachers. This study examined successful alternatively certified teachers' motivations to leave other successful careers in order to teach and how they approached learning how to teach in the absence of a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Preservice Teacher Education, Alternative Teacher Certification, Interviews
Dana, Nancy Fichtman; Yendol-Hoppey, Diane; Snow-Gerono, Jennifer L. – Action in Teacher Education, 2006
Having facilitated, read, and collected more than 200 teacher research pieces written by prospective and practicing teachers, the authors conducted a systematic analysis of the domains and contents of teachers' questions as they embarked on their first research study. Focusing on the questions teachers ask led to the generation of a typology of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Professional Development Schools, Teacher Researchers, Questioning Techniques

Thompson, Susan; Cooner, Donna D. – Action in Teacher Education, 2001
Describes how pre-service teachers at one elementary school participate in Grand Rounds (borrowed from the medical profession). Participants observe master teachers demonstrating model lessons and interacting with students. During a debriefing session, student teachers ask questions and discuss their observations with master teachers. Later, they…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Master Teachers

Dynak, Janet; And Others – Action in Teacher Education, 1997
Examines how general education interns and mentors can use collaborative teaching in professional development school settings. Focusing on special education literature on collaboration, the paper discusses the use of complementary, parallel, station, alternative, and team teaching. Examples of how these models work in elementary and secondary…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Educational Change, Educational Cooperation, Educational Improvement