Within initial teacher education there is increasing pressure to enhance the use of assessment data to support students to improve their knowledge and skills, and to determine what standards they meet upon graduation. For such data to be useful, both programme designers and students require meaningful and comprehensive assessment reports on…

This study reflects on a research and development project between two dance practitioners, one of them a wheelchair user, working together to develop pedagogical design within teacher education at a university in Norway. The aim of the authors is to encourage student teachers toward becoming inclusive and brave teachers who define diversity among…

Because public school teachers increasingly are being sued for failure to perform their duties adequately, teacher preparation programs should include coursework in school law as a preventive measure. Some cases are discussed and recommendations are made. (MT)

An issues-based curriculum requires teachers who can structure debates, discussions, controversy, and action. Effective teachers must be prepared with new goals, skills, strategies, and evaluation systems. Appropriate preservice teacher education programs could be structured to provide desired attitudes and competencies, all supported by…

This "Research in Progress" report describes the need to explore how the experiences of teachers following different routes into the profession compare, and how integrated their initial teacher preparation, new teacher induction and early professional development programmes appear to be in practice. The "Becoming a teacher"…

The author describes the use of the case study method as a teaching tool for preservice teacher education. Potential problems with the use of this method are discussed, as well as the benefits it can produce. (CH)

Describes early approaches to teacher education in the Netherlands and the Wiskobas model for teacher education. Provides information on the Netherlands' national approach to training primary teachers. Contains 14 references. (Author/ASK)

Reports on the implementation of a four-year project exploring effective and alternative assessment items in a primary mathematics education course. Provides a rationale for using posters in preservice education and discusses the development of criteria for effective posters. Concludes with a practical recommendation for the implementation of…

The director of the Center for the Study of the Teaching Profession at The Rand Corporation discusses the impact of testing on teacher education, teacher practices, teacher candidates in historically black colleges, teacher supply and demand, testing instruments, and the future of teaching. (Author/MT)

Documents the learning constructed by two preservice teachers. One illustrates how preservice teachers interpret children's literature to help them understand and apply academic theory. The other highlights how preservice teachers generate their own theories about the nature of teaching, learning, and classrooms while interpreting children's…

Describes the Chinese normal education system which differs from that of other countries, particularly in the uniqueness of its curriculum design, its admission process for normal students, and its training of students during their normal education. Highlights preservice teacher education in China. (Author/ASK)

Suggests that data from interviews with teachers and other educational participants can be analyzed differently when interviews are studied as instances of language in education themselves. The paper analyzes data from previous research, and uses data from two interviews with a beginning secondary level English teacher to highlight ways that…

While the middle school movement has gained legitimacy in recent years, attracting preservice teachers to the middle levels remains challenging. Essentially, attracting middle level preservice teachers is analogous to catching minnows in a bucket. As university faculty attempt to bait students into teaching young adolescents, grades 4-8,…

The role of teaching practice in pre-service teachers' training at the University of Education, Winneba in Ghana is reported. Teaching practice as a teacher development programme has come under the limelight for some time now in Ghana. The Initial Teacher Training Colleges (ITTC) in Ghana and the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) have…

The Panel on the Preparation of Beginning Teachers was convened by the New Jersey Department of Education to help define two critical elements of teacher preparation: (1) What is essential for beginning teachers to know professionally? and (2) What teaching skills and abilities are most effective? This document is the report of that panel.…