A course to improve the qualifications of prospective teachers is described. Its success has encouraged educators to seek to develop other courses along similar lines. (CK)

This paper is a proposal for developing a manual that provides preschool teachers with prescriptive guidelines for teaching verbal and conceptual skills with modeling. Several studies are cited to indicate the power and versatality of observational and learning (modeling) procedures in promoting the acquisition, generalization, and retention of a…

The focus of this paper is on the relative roles of personality and training in enabling teachers to carry out the kinds of complex learning models which are envisioned by curriculum reformers in the social sciences. The paper surveys some of the major research done in this area and concludes that: 1) Most teachers do not manifest the complex…

A teaching model is a distinct set of ordered steps or phases created to achieve certain outcomes. These outcomes are different for different models, although some similarities exist among certain models, thus permitting the formation of model "clusters." These clusters or families include the information processing family, personal family, social…

Constructivist epistemologies have been instrumental in recent research on mathematics learning and have provided a basis for recent mathematics education reform efforts. Although constructivism has the potential to inform changes in mathematics teaching, it offers no particular vision of how mathematics should be taught; models of teaching based…