Rural teachers face difficulties (lower salaries, inadequate facilities, isolated living, scant inservice training, and inadequate housing) not found in urban school districts, and most have not been prepared for rural life and teaching by their teacher education programs. Specialized training for rural teachers is practically non-existent; most…

Summer School in Action was created in 1979 by members of the Syracuse (New York) Area Teacher Center Policy Board to meet the expressed needs of local teachers. The participants for the first year (1979) were 21 elementary and secondary school teachers with a median of 8.6 years of teaching experience. The second year (1980) participants numbered…

What little research that has been undertaken regarding the handwriting competence of preservice teachers indicates a decline in the legibility of teachers' handwriting, as well as that of students. With this in mind, a study was conducted to identify methods used in training preservice teachers to teach handwriting, to note changes in the teacher…

To comply with federal and state laws mandating free and appropriate education for all handicapped children, the Kentucky General Assembly authorized the State Department of Education, the Kentucky Council on Teacher Education and Certification, and the Kentucky Council on Higher Education to study higher education programs and certification…

Although a review of the literature on competency-based teacher education (CBTE) reveals little or no reference to microteaching's contribution, microteaching was a precursor of CBTE and had a direct influence in its acceptance and development. A review of CBTE's essential characteristics and a comparison with microteaching shows that…

A questionnaire was sent to 100 superintendents to find out how they viewed the preparation of the recent graduates of the University of Maine at Orono hired for teaching positions within their districts. The superintendents were asked to rate the graduates and to list the competencies that were strong points as well as weak points in their…

The Teachers Centre for Continuing Education was established to provide opportunities for teachers to undertake further study in order to upgrade their professional qualifications. The Western Australia Post Secondary Education Commission, acting on the Partridge Report on Post-Secondary Education in Western Australia, investigated recommendations…

A training institute was designed by the University of Arizona and the Tucson Unified School District to address both common and individual needs of teachers in meeting local school desegregation goals. The summer institute included instruction in the following areas: core-human behavior and teacher self appraisal; equal opportunity in the…

The final report of the Education for Aesthetic Awareness project (Cleveland Area Arts Council) summarizes the development and implementation of Master's Degree courses for teachers and specialists in grades K-12. The document is presented in fourteen sections. The first five sections provide background of the program; goals and guiding…

Three approaches to teacher development are: (1) attempts to construct a developmental theory; (2) efforts to apply existing developmental theories; and (3) inservice practices justified in developmental terms. Goals and strategies are connected with different uses of the term "development" in teacher education. Associated with efforts…

Conferees representing 49 2-year colleges and the National Faculty Association of Junior and Community Colleges were asked to discuss the following topics: (1) recruitment, orientation, and preparation of 2-year college teachers; (2) evaluation of teaching; (3) new teaching methods and strategies, and (4) faculty involvement in academic…

In 1962, in order to improve its Teacher Preparation Program, Texas Southern University administered achievement, self-concept, I.Q., and interest tests in local schools in different types of neighborhoods. It was found that those students in "inner-city schools" scored at or near the bottom of these tests. When the test results were…

This five-part report focuses on a cooperative attempt by Tanzania and Canada to seek creative solutions to some common education and development problems. The Tanzania Project provided the professional and educational services necessary for organizing, establishing, and administering within the Department of Elementary Education at the University…

This instructional module is designed for Teacher Corps interns who need to know how to effectively teach reading development skills to inner-city elementary school children. The first part of the document is a brief overview of reading in the elementary school and includes a flow-chart and the rationale and objectives of the Teacher Corps…

Studies of the teaching and learning process provide the basis for this research. The emphasis is on the nature of the tutorial interaction during the learning of complex material, with the eventual goal of being able to construct an automated, computer- controlled tutorial system. An active structural network (a type of semantic network) was used…