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Bakken, Jeffrey P., Ed.; Obiakor, Festus E., Ed. – Advances in Special Education, 2019
While services for students with disabilities have been vastly improved in recent years, and research has created far greater awareness for the issues they face, there are still many obstacles to overcome as these students progress through the education system. This book discusses the considerable challenges these students conquer in education,…
Descriptors: Special Education, Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Hearing Impairments
Office of Postsecondary Education, US Department of Education, 2010
This seventh report on the quality of America's teacher preparation programs and novice teachers presents data reported to the U.S. Department of Education (the Department) in October 2007 by all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the outlying areas, which include American Samoa, the Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, the…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Certification, Beginning Teachers, Educational Policy
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Byman, Reijo; Krokfors, Leena; Toom, Auli; Maaranen, Katriina; Jyrhama, Riitta; Kynaslahti, Heikki; Kansanen, Pertti – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2009
In this article, we will discuss research-based teacher education as an organizing theme of teacher education. We will report the results of two surveys in which students expressed their attitudes towards the research-based approach and their experiences of research-based teacher education. The construct validity of the inventory was tested using…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Student Attitudes, Construct Validity, Factor Analysis
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Penketh, Claire; Goddard, Gillian – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2008
This paper investigates the experiences of a group of mature students as they move from a Foundation degree in Teaching and Learning Support to a progression route, the BA (Honours) in Teaching Learning and Mentoring. This piece of action research employs student narratives as a means of gaining some understanding of individual and specific…
Descriptors: Action Research, Academic Degrees, Womens Education, Womens Studies
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Rots, Isabel; Aelterman, Antonia – Educational Studies, 2008
This study focuses on the relationship between teacher education and graduates' intended and actual entrance into teaching. Moreover, it explores how this relationship differs for two types of initial teacher training for secondary education. A hypothetical model of graduates' entrance into the teaching profession comprising empirically grounded…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Labor Market, Graduates, Intention
Connecticut State Board of Governors for Higher Education, Hartford. – 2003
This document presents information on the Alternate Route to Certification (ARC) program, which prepares talented people from outside of education to enter teaching. It has been offered since 1988 by the Connecticut Department of Higher Education. ARC prepares aspiring teachers by: providing intensive non-credit preparation in teaching methods and…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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Cavallo, Ann M. L.; Ferreira, Maria M.; Roberts, Sally K. – School Science & Mathematics, 2005
Urban schools across the United States face a pervasive problem in their science and mathematics programs-a disproportionate number of the teachers in these classrooms are not certified, thus making them underqualified to teach these subject areas. Furthermore, urban schools deal with teacher shortages and attrition in these critical areas. The…
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, Teacher Qualifications, Partnerships in Education, Mathematics Teachers
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, Washington, DC. – 1996
This directory presents information on 328 programs in colleges and universities for individuals who already have a bachelor's degree and wish to earn a teaching license, a master's degree in teaching, or both. Information was gathered from a fall 1995 survey of the member institutions of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education;…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, College Graduates, Education Courses, Elementary Secondary Education