A college professor describes and advocates exchanging positions with public school teachers for a time in order to gain up-to-date practical experience which would in turn improve methods courses instruction. (CP)

San Jose State College in California has special features in its course for industrial arts teachers. Ralph C. Bohn, Chairman of the College's Department of Industrial Studies, describes the course and the reasons for its special character. (Editor)

Surveys reading teachers to determine their opinions of reading courses they had taken at the undergraduate level. Reports that "how to plan a reading lesson" was the most helpful topic covered in such courses and that the topic most needed to be covered is "how to organize and manage reading instruction." (FL)

Scores on the National Teacher Examinations subtest in professional education for secondary education majors were correlated with grades in courses in educational psychology, secondary methods, and test and measurement. Findings revealed that sex was a factor in the strength of the relationships; combining subgroups resulted in stronger…

A status report on the open university in Scotland, including enrollment and staff data and a listing of undergraduate teacher education courses offered. (SJL)

Describes Southwest Texas State University's graduate preservice program for the preparation of community college teachers, presenting a rationale for the program, brief descriptions of the five courses in the program, and a summary of the outcomes of the program in terms of graduate activities. (AYC)

Thoughtful recovery of one's educational experiences can be an effective method for identifying and understanding broad curricular and pedagogical issues. This article presents a rationale for regarding personal history research as good research and discusses the author's experiences supervising graduate students' personal history projects. (IAH)

A teacher educator discusses activities which are included in her language arts methods course. Content and process in language arts teaching are explored within a classroom context that encourages reflection, collegial discussion, and scholarly analysis. (IAH)

In both education and extension studies, the traditional approach (transfer of knowledge, learning as passive absorption) has given way to new discourses: in education, knowledge construction and in extension, participatory learning and research. The new paradigms have yet to be formed into effective praxis. (SK)

When educators are given the opportunity to speak candidly, straight from their heart and soul about their profession, what might they have to say? Twenty-three graduate students enrolled in a Leadership in Education class were given the chance to do exactly that via an on-line discussion board forum assignment. This article reports the results of…

Anthony J. Palmer's paper continues an absolutely necessary discussion on the general education core curriculum for American undergraduate students. Initially, Palmer summarized the global conditions with which we are presently confronted. This discussion led him to the reexamination of the general education core at the undergraduate level. The…

In this article we argue that student learning is enhanced by "theoretical eclecticism," which we define as intentionally drawing on different theories of learning when making instructional decisions to provide students with the instructional support they need to be successful. We briefly review the literature on four views of learning and on…

Exploration of the Chemistry of Plants is established as a part of the department offerings for nonmajor science students to fulfill their science general education requirement. Plant themes proved to be very suitable in capturing the interest of the nonmajor science students as an introduction to chemistry.

Novice teachers today struggle to integrate engaging pedagogy into their standards based curriculum. 21st century students have been immersed in technology from birth and are accustomed to multi-tasking with several types of technology each day. Students no longer rely on the traditional ways of communication and absorb their information via…

In most teacher education courses, instructional strategies are merely listed and explained. Students rarely have the opportunity to see these strategies in use until they become student teachers. What better way to teach secondary instructional strategies to pre-service teachers than by modeling these strategies using teacher education content?…