Juxtaposes different contexts in a teacher educator's life as kindergarten teacher, doctoral student, and beginning teacher educator, illuminating how these elements shaped her understandings of learning to teach within different contexts and noting how this story can help educators integrate narrative and paradigmatic ways of understanding…

Pays tribute to older women teachers who have survived and thrived over the years as elementary and secondary school teachers. Describes the qualities that have served them well, such as scheduling, attention to detail, commitment, and ability to cope with change. (TB)

Looks at what constitutes culture in university teaching settings worldwide and how this may be operationalized as an international teaching assistant (ITA) need. Investigates ITAs' educational attitudes towards teacher and student roles, modes of information presentation, and significant mores of higher education as mediated by gender, previous…

Describes Indiana State University's baseline day program, which helps establish a strong beginning upon which student teachers can build. Student teachers take full responsibility of the classroom for 1 day within the first 4-10 days of their assignment. Evaluations of student and cooperating teachers indicate the program benefits all involved.…

Discusses the issue of literacy as a gate keeper and how the interviewee's own experiences as a bilingual Latina and writing teacher aroused her interest in sociocultural understandings of literacy and language learning. She emphasizes the importance of discourse-based analysis and discusses the issue of high urban mobility as well as her other…

This Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI) position paper identifies the curricular areas that should be addressed in a program intended to prepare teachers of children birth through age 8. Outlines preferred knowledge in the following areas: general education, foundations of early childhood education, child development, the…

Seven Canadian female faculty members described their involvement in collaborative projects, including collaborations with a school principal, school teachers, a former student, a graduate student, and other faculty. Common themes included building rapport, establishing goals and rewards, negotiation of tasks, commitment and interpersonal support,…

Presents the multicultural stories of 75 preservice teachers, student teaching in New York City, that reveal the concerns and questions they have when faced with multicultural issues or dilemmas. Presents recommendations to professional education programs regarding what should be included in order to prepare teachers to serve the needs of today's…

A college English teacher describes a communications course in which Appalachian students, primarily women, learned basic Internet skills. Compares stereotypes of Appalachian people and women as ignorant or incompetent, and suggests ways that teachers can overcome stereotypical expectations and address the sources of student reluctance and fear of…

A replication of a study conducted nearly 20 years ago investigated teacher burnout among 300 special education teachers. Teachers' age, amount of experience, and preparation had markedly increased since the previous study. Age, experience, certification status, and preparation were not as significantly related to burnout as in the past. (Contains…

Argues against the standards movement. Believes that standardized testing has affected the teachers and students in public schools, the perception of education in general, and public education overall. Focuses on the impact of the standards movement and standardized tests in particular. (CMK)

Describes Kodaly-based music programs. Focuses on three problems with this instruction method: (1) when one or more beliefs are focused upon to the detriment of the program as a whole; (2) the Kodaly program was created in a different culture and time; and (3) the program's emphasis on specific musical skills is limiting. (CMK)

Details a preservice teacher's first experience tutoring in an inner-city high school, during which she found apathetic teachers and discouraged students. Notes that she does not want her upcoming student teaching experience to turn out the same way. Provides a response from another teacher, who suggests that apathy can be avoided if teachers are…

Recent developments in Ontario, Canada, are used to identify and discuss issues related to teacher induction and teacher education reform efforts in North America. (Author)

Recounts how participation in various summer teacher workshops gave the author access to materials for use in teaching about the religious influences in U.S. history. Relates that the National Archives'"Primarily Teaching" workshop revealed primary source documents representing every period in U.S. history. Provides ways these historical…