This article examines the Wurtele Gallery Teacher Program Method as a replicable model for training cohorts of museum educators. Since 2005, this program has trained and paid graduate students to be museum educators for the Yale University Art Gallery's public education initiatives, which include school, youth, family, teen, access, and adult…

By partnering with correctional facilities, institutions of higher education are well positioned to create shared learning communities that provide profound educational experiences. Portland State University offers several courses involving university/corrections partnerships; these courses meet inside carceral institutions. This article…

In Turkey, Educational Philosophy is a compulsory course for the students of education faculties, which serve the purpose of training the teachers of future generations. Furthermore, in some other programs, students are able to take the course as an elective course. The continuous changes in culture, science, and technology force the curriculum of…

This paper reflects on the process of curriculum development in 21 tertiary education institutions in the Southern Philippines. Assisting capacity-building of the teaching profession is an ongoing need in developing countries, but rarely does it extend to pre-service education. In this study of one aspect of a three year AusAid-funded education…

This article explores the ethical, methodological, and practical issues of translating critical theory and research into praxis through a case study analysis of a graduate capstone seminar that explored the familiar, and seemingly benign, concepts common to educational discourses: "Creativity, Collaboration, and Community." The author…

In an effort to understand interpretations of new and revised physical education syllabuses, and conditions that appear to strengthen or weaken the desire to introduce them, this paper draws on insights provided by principals and physical education teachers into the effective implementation of syllabuses within Irish post-primary schools.…

Summary of curriculum development in Atlanta schools, patterned after the Law in American Society Project. (JB)

Progress report on the curriculum development project in law education in St. Louis. Includes summaries on orientation programs, teacher training, and the resource and information services. (JB)

This paper provides a case study of the use of language objectives within a newly developed English language teacher education programme in Hong Kong. The programme development team decided to adopt a content-based language teaching approach to support students' second language development through content learning. The teacher education programme…

This article describes the rationale and procedures of a clinical component in a teacher preservice program at the University of Chicago. (MLF)

Contains a description of an open-ended laboratory physics course for college freshmen and sophomores planning to become elementary school teachers. (CP)

Presents the history of a graduate course on the teaching of technical communication, its content, goals and achievements. (RL)

Describes a series of health studies courses for teacher trainees and outlines a health studies secondary methods course. (GS)

The practicum for the ComField Model Teacher Education Program is based on Joint Inquiry, a process for systematically improving instruction in which the instructional manager (individual in charge of instruction, in this case a student teacher), or I.M., and the trainer (teacher educator) together attempt to solve a professional problem. Joint…

The James Report is remarkable for the infrequency of its references to training students in colleges of education to teach children to read, and even more for its lack of explicit proposals. (Author)