This resource list identifies resources from 2010 to 2017 that highlight resources on science in early care and education under the following categories: 1) Policy resources, 2) Promising practices, 3) Professional development and teacher preparation.

An emphasis on diversity is one of the greatest challenges in my teaching. Everyone, myself included, enters the course with a set of expectations for human behavior, and literature can be very disruptive of these expectations. International literature, for example, often disrupts the narrative expectations of readers who were trained by stories…

To supplement the summer reading of National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) members, the NSTA Committee on Research in Science Education suggested a list of science education research articles that were published in the journals of NSTA's affiliates in 2012. These articles covered a variety of topics that include learning about…

A bibliography of materials on international preservice teacher education and teacher education programs selected from an ERIC search is presented. Each citation is briefly described. (MT)

A bibliography listing 16 documents and journals which deal with general and specific subject methods courses for prospective teachers is offered. (MT)

This guidebook contains abstracts of papers by the following authors: (1) Michael D. Andrew; (2) Herman E. Behling, Jr.; (3) Ken Carlson; (4) Frederic R. Cyphert and John E. Nichelson; (5) Barbara Dubitsky; (6) David H. Florio; (7) Eva C. Galambos; (8) Hendrik D. Gideonse; (9) Gary A. Griffin; (10) Martin Haberman; (11) Gene Hall, Walter Doyle,…

This bibliography contains selected journal articles and documents from the ERIC database which present an overview of current and proposed usage of electronic devices in preservice teacher education, with some analyses of results. (IAH)

Jigsaw, a form of cooperative learning, was researched by Aronson (1978). Later, Slavin (1981) adapted Jigsaw to Student Team Learning and called it Jigsaw II. Jigsaw currently shows the least achievement gains among the various cooperative methodologies. Nonetheless, it is a viable methodology and is useful for covering and reviewing material.…

This document contains a list of vocational teacher education modules. The modules are grouped into ten categories as follows: (1) program planning, development, and evaluation; (2) instructional planning; (3) instructional execution; (4) instructional evaluation; (5) instructional management; (6) guidance; (7) school community relations; (8)…

A selection of abstracts from the ERIC database dealing with effective teacher education is offered. These articles and documents were written by educators who were searching for, investigating, and promulgating the ways to attain teacher education program effectiveness. (DF)

A teacher's attitude toward mainstreaming and disabled students has a great effect on the success of an educational program. Attitudes can be modified through training experiences. Suggested readings for use in teacher preparation courses are listed. (DF)

Resources dealing with preservice teacher education are presented in an annotated bibliography of ten citations from the ERIC database. (LH)

This 90-item annotated bibliography contains material primarily published after 1977. The bibliography provides a readily available resource related to informal reading inventories (IRIs). The three sections of the document are: (1) basic information; (2) research; and (3) descriptive reports. The bibliography is designed to be useful to a diverse…

Supplementing a study that surveyed the instructional approach to writing skills of Ontario's teacher training institutions as well as composition instruction in general at the secondary level, this bibliography complements existing bibliographies on writing instruction. More than 1,600 works published before 1977 in Canada, Great Britain, and the…

The field of the explicit teaching of thinking skills has attracted renewed and growing interest in education since the late 1970s. Much of this movement has its roots in earlier works in education, philosophy, and psychology. Writers in the fields of elementary/secondary education, curriculum, cognitive psychology, epistemology, and teacher…