A research-based framework for teaching science is a heuristic tool used to help preservice teachers conceptualize many complexities of teaching while making explicit the strategy to use a research-based body of professional knowledge to inform instructional decision-making (Clough, 2003, Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association…

Teacher educators are becoming increasingly concerned about having a model of teacher preparation. As part of its new standards for accreditation, the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education demands that professional education programs adopt a model that explicates the purposes, processes, outcomes, and evaluation of the program.…

Discusses in-service teacher training in England, proposing alternative models of professional knowledge which could change and improve teachers and teaching. The article considers alternative models derived from work with teachers and students in England and explains how such models can help in establishing intercultural education courses for…

This book is intended as a text or resource for preservice or inservice training of general and special education teachers, and has an orientation for the education of the mentally retarded that is values-based, issues-oriented, and practice-oriented. The 17 chapters are organized into four sections. The first two chapters are introductory and…

The purpose of this book is to help teacher education students and experienced teachers to develop not only an understanding of the nature of "reflective practice" but also the attitudes and skills that such an approach to teaching requires. Case studies illustrate many difficult experiences teachers encounter; each chapter begins with…