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Download full textKatz, Lilian G. – 1993
The purpose of this essay is to present some principles, assumptions, and techniques that might be useful for inservice teacher educators or prospective teachers. Teacher educators should try first of all to focus on teachers' understandings of situations in order to help make those understandings more appropriate, more accurate, deeper, and more…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Materials, Teacher Education
Ducharme, Edward R. – 1986
Little is known about "teacher educators," the higher education faculty responsible for teacher preparation. Reasons include the lack of a definition and consequent difficulty in identifying the population, scarcity of research on teacher educators specifically, and inclusion of teacher educators in research on the education…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Higher Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Research Needs
Kleinfeld, Judith – 1990
This ERIC digest discusses the theoretical basis of case teaching and examines its strengths and limitations as a tool for teacher education. Case teaching presents authentic, concrete teaching problems for students to analyze. The study of a classroom fight, for example, might draw discussion of racial, ethical, political, and other community…
Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), Case Studies, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Innovation
Helge, Doris – 1985
An effective staff development program for rural teachers will have identified the needs to be met, will incorporate good management principles, and will make use of a variety of resources--the community itself, nonprofessional staff, business and industry, and shared teaching efforts. Distinctive staff development needs of rural teachers may…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development
NCLEnotes, 1999
NCLEnotes is published twice yearly by the National Clearinghouse for ESL Literacy Education and the Center for Applied Linguistics. Volume 8 includes the following articles: "Speaking of Pronunciation" (MaryAnn Cunningham Florez); "NCLE Coordinates ESL Research Priorities"; "Reading in English"; and "A Standards Sampler." The regular features,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Resources, English (Second Language)
Pufahl, Ingrid; Rhodes, Nancy C.; Christian, Donna – 2000
In an effort to inform foreign language teaching efforts in elementary and secondary schools in the United States, a small-scale, 3-month exploratory study was designed to collect information that would highlight what was most interesting and illuminating about foreign language education in various countries. Twenty-two educators from 19 countries…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Inservice Teacher Education
