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Axel Gehrmann, Editor; Peggy Germer, Editor – Springer, 2025
This Open Access volume aims to inspire innovative and culturally-responsive transformations in teacher education practices and policies within Europe and beyond in the context of teacher shortage. It amalgamates the collaborative efforts during several years between the Center for Teacher Education and Educational Research (ZLSB) at TU Dresden…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Educational Innovation, Culturally Relevant Education, Preservice Teacher Education
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Luneta, Kakoma, Ed. – Research in Mathematics Education, 2021
This book represents a crop of wide-ranging research conducted by renown scholars in sub-Sahara Africa revolving around mathematics teaching and professional development programs for mathematics teachers. The research-based proposals and actual how-to-conduct professional development initiatives that enhance effective mathematics instruction are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Manipulative Materials, Visualization
Davis Lenski, Susan, Ed.; Grisham, Dana L., Ed.; Wold, Linda S., Ed. – International Reading Association (NJ3), 2005
The quality of teacher preparation is frequently under public scrutiny. In this collection, experts in literacy teacher preparation offer ten truths--based on evidence, not ideology-- that support the ongoing positive efforts of teacher educators. In this book, the reader will find: A review of the existing knowledge base; Evidence of the improved…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Literacy Education, Internet, Teacher Educators
Kanstoroom, Marci, Ed.; Finn, Chester E., Jr., Ed. – 1999
The selections in this collection present common sense approaches to improving the quality of teachers. These approaches involve easing the regulations that control entry, devolving personnel decisions to individual schools, and then holding these schools accountable for producing results as gauged by their students' academic achievement. Some of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Alternative Teacher Certification, Educational Improvement
Carlson, Ken, Comp. – 1984
This document contains appendices and supplementary materials to Ken Carlson's paper on a Jew Jersey teacher certification proposal. The following appendices are presented: (A) "An Alternative Route to Teacher Selection and Professional Quality Assurance: An Analysis of Initial Certification" (Saul Cooperman); (B) a letter to the members…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Change, Educational Legislation, Higher Education
Klein, Charlie, Ed. – 1994
This document consists of 12 short advisories that address commonly asked questions about minimum faculty qualifications in California community colleges. Advisory Number 1 addresses three issues: teaching in a minor, teaching counseling courses, and grandfathering of State Board of Education Credentials. Advisory 2 explains Assembly Bill (AB)…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accreditation (Institutions), Administrator Qualifications, College Faculty
Hess, Frederick M., Ed.; Rotherham, Andrew J., Ed.; Walsh, Katie, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2004
A "Qualified Teacher in Every Classroom?" lays out new approaches for ensuring high-quality teacher preparation while offering a candid assessment of the obstacles that may impede the implementation of such new models. Under the No Child Left Behind Act, states will have to ensure that every public school classroom is staffed by a highly…
Descriptors: Certification, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Teacher Effectiveness
City Univ. of New York, NY. Inst. for Research and Development in Occupational Education. – 1982
This final report describes a project to examine the Health Occupations Education program in New York State from a futurist perspective and contains 18 papers presented at meetings. An introduction summarizes activities of the Health Occupations Review Committee that conducted the project and committee meetings. The first 12 papers address these…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Allied Health Occupations Education, Articulation (Education), College School Cooperation
Gamoran, Adam, Ed. – 1998
This document contains five papers. "Vocational Teacher Education in U.S. Colleges and Universities and Its Responsiveness to the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act of 1990" (Richard L. Lynch) documents the trend toward decreasing enrollments in teacher training programs in virtually all vocational fields.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Academic Persistence, Comparative Analysis