The four components of an undergraduate curriculum theory course are outlined. In addition, results are reported from a survey (N=100) designed to assess the effectiveness of the course. (IAH)

This paper suggests that creativity development among teachers can be an alternative approach towards teaching for hands-on and process science. Describes a course to prepare student teachers to move toward a student-oriented approach which focuses specifically on the development of creativity. (LZ)

Describes a three-year teacher education program created by the College of Education at Iowa State University designed to make technology an integral part of the teaching and learning environment. Discusses the program's steps and components, including the use of computer-related technology courses, field experiences, and educational computing…

This article describes the development and dissemination of a resource manual to provide college instructors with materials to support a health education course for teacher education majors. A statewide survey of instructors one year following distribution suggested that most instructors welcomed the manual and used it to modify health education…

Describes Project NETWORC, a three-year Nevada program that uses an audio teleconferencing system to provide early childhood special education courses from the University of Nevada-Reno to preservice students and professionals in rural areas. Discusses educational objectives, telecourse content and technical components, student population, and…

Describes teacher education practice aimed at promoting reflection in novice practitioners, and reflects on an exercise used in teaching a class of preservice secondary teachers. The author draws on student journal entries data in understanding the students' reflective thinking and demonstrates the efficacy of having students keep focused…

Research findings suggest that teachers are not competent in student assessment and that teacher education programs do not provide adequate training in assessment techniques. A survey of 33 Canadian universities found that most prospective teachers did not complete a measurement and evaluation course. Contains 44 references. (SV)

This response to Tozer's position paper on the social foundations of education endorses the spirit of Tozer's proposals but not their formulation or rationale. The paper argues for the pursuit of multiple educational strategies grounded in cultural and social foundations of education and directed toward various levels of the policy environment.…

Compared the academic achievement of 29 African-American and 145 European-American teachers in research-methodology courses. Discusses the implications of the lower achievement of the African-American students in these courses for the supply of African-American school administrators. (SLD)

Online learning requires new approaches to teaching and learning. At the University of Montreal, 28 graduate students in education and adult students specializing in educational technology attended an experimental distance education course. Students identified advantages and disadvantages of online learning/teaching and reflected on how the course…

This article describes development and delivery of Pennsylvania's Literary Braille Refresher Course, intended to both refresh literary Braille skills and teach instructional strategies to the 20 teachers enrolled. The article covers the course's goals and objectives, participants, structure, evaluation, and analysis of results. The course's…

The present study investigated the effects of a pre-service teaching program on changes in student teachers' pedagogical knowledge. Twelve student teachers drew a concept map on "effective teaching" on four separate occasions at two designated points each before and after field teaching during a period of eight months. Five in-service teachers…

This article examines student teachers' experiences of writing emotionally through the lens of teacher-writer memoirs. The participants were 99 postgraduate student teachers on a sociology of teaching module in an initial primary teacher education programme in the Republic of Ireland. Analysis of journal responses indicated how student teachers…

In this article, the authors focus on the concept of coherence, a relatively underexplored concept in teacher education. They investigate the relationship between students' perceptions of coherence and a number of structural features of teacher education programs to help develop a stronger definition of one important dimension of coherence--the…

This study investigated how agricultural education programs prepare teacher education students for work in diverse situations. It assessed the extent to which agricultural education programs are infusing diversity, multiculturalism, and pluralism into their curriculum as courses, field experiences, and in-service for current teachers. This census…