This paper is divided into three parts: compensatory education and its future, the kind of teacher education which will be used to support these compensatory trends, and a bibliography selection to provide background for both sections. The first part reviews the present condition, developments of compensatory education, the implications of future…

Three trends can be identified from Journal of Teacher Education manuscript submissions: Teacher education is conceived of as classroom teacher directed, rather than toward all educational personnel; change in teacher education is heavily weighted toward organization rather than content; and the bases for advocating change are not generally…

To get the most out of faculty, to reach different students and to prepare people for service in a variety of settings, institutions should offer several programs for each specialization. (Authors)

Questionnaires were sent to the 1972 graduates of the University of Wisconsin School of Education as part of a follow-up study to determine what teaching competencies the respondents felt they needed in the performance of their job and which of these topics or competencies were not adequately covered in their preservice preparation. The 44 items…

Addresses the debate over early childhood teacher training. Argues that teachers should be: (1) trained according to professional principles and methodologies of teaching children; (2) well-prepared in math, science, and language; (3) value work; (4) maintain high moral standards; and (5) remain open to new ideas. (DE)

Considers changes that will have to take place in teacher education due to rising numbers of minority students in public schools, the declining number of families with children in public schools, and the increasingly prevalent view that education is a personal rather than common good. (GC)

Four main considerations are basic to developing a program to prepare urban teachers: the degree to which the program is individualized, the nature of the personal models exerting influence on prospective teachers, the degree of freedom offered prospective teachers in their professional laboratory experiences, and the nature of the help received…

An overview of the present liberal arts disciplines points out the vast amount and diversity of knowledge available to the general education student. Addressing the question of what part of this knowledge is of most worth to the prospective teacher, it is suggested that a sound general education should be organized around six basic and persistent…

To adequately prepare effective teachers for urban schools, traditional university-based programs of teacher education need to make serious structural and content changes. This article offers 16 assertions about specific changes that are needed and maintains that, in many alternative certification programs, most of the 16 assertions are…

Fundamental to evaluating the effectiveness of teacher education is determining whether the theory and practice of preservice training carry over into inservice teaching. Considering the large number of beginning teachers who soon drop out of teaching, it appears that they do not. Possibly teacher educators have put too much reliance on the…

In a broad overview of teacher education, the challenges that faced four generations of teacher educators are considered as background to the issues now confronting the fifth generation. The major contribution of the first generation was to set out the fields which were to comprise the content of professional study--pedagogy, curriculum,…