The college writing center can be most helpful in preparing prospective English teachers for the classroom. Students could be required to spend some time each week tutoring in the writing center. Although the methods course focuses on the theory of teaching writing, the work in the center can put that theory into practice. Before actually…

A "kinesiology carnival" was found to be a useful classroom project for university physical education majors working with elementary school children. In the spring of 1977, kinesiology graduate and undergraduate students at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro and 60 local fifth-grade students carried out a kinesiology…

Many Peace Corps volunteers, returning to see with new eyes and feel with new nerves the sorrows of our own cities, are finding jobs as teachers in inner-city schools. Of the 50 percent sent overseas to teach, more than two thirds are young liberal arts graduates lacking orthodox teaching credentials, but by 1965 many states began recruiting them,…

There is a great difference among teachers with respect to their skills, what they like to do, what they do best, what they are trained to do, the levels at which they like to work, and their degree of commitment to the profession. They differ further in their interest in dealing with administrative problems, filling leadership roles, developing…

This study obtained a general picture of the preparation, certification, experience, and positions of teachers in Newfoundland and obtained other factual information relating to the nature of its teaching force. The report states that during the fall term 1971, a 59-item questionnaire was returned by 80 percent of the teachers employed in the…

This report, sponsored by the National Association of Independent Schools, reviews plans to prepare teachers for the Integrated Day. This preparation attempts to give teachers new concepts replacing those which grew from formalism in the teachers' own learning. The new concepts revolve around the theory that education is a process of living and…

An author turned English literature teacher at London University discusses the differences of both professions and how both depend, in the final analysis, on the ordinary reader. (RK)

One interesting method for teachers to extend their understanding of what their own teaching is all about is to visit other schools. It can help them solve old problems and develop new views on education. Discusses some insights into the evolution of school policies and curricula and provides guidelines for ensuring a productive visiting program.…

Examines Pirsig's book from one aspect--his early attempts to teach freshman composition and the startling techniques he used in that teaching. (HOD)

Cruickshank's Reflective Teaching approach to practice teaching is reviewed, critiqued, and compared to Zeichner's (1981-82) critical perspective. A modified version of Reflective Teaching is proposed. (Author/MT)

Reports the findings of a questionnaire which asked young West Berlin teachers to evaluate their teacher training. The most common suggestion was to provide more practical experience beginning early in teacher education. Results are discussed in relation to problems of present teacher training. (Author/GEA)

Three surveys were carried out with three separate groups of almost a thousand graduates having none to two years' teaching experience to determine if varying amounts of experience after graduation affected perceptions of the quality of their preservice teacher education. Results are presented. Conclusions and implications are discussed. (MT)

Contains recollections of one teacher's experiences with and observations of teacher J. C. Tressler. Praises Tressler's contribution to the teaching of English. (JD)