Unlike medicine, architecture, or accounting, the teaching profession has not codified the knowledge, skill, and dispositions accounting for accomplished practice. The National Board Certification system now under development addresses three critical elements: standards setting, assessment, and professional development. The system will be field…

This paper presents an innovative way in which university education can help pre-service teachers become better problem-solvers. The central idea is to use the "Technology Fair" as a means for promoting pre-service teachers pedagogical content knowledge about technological problem solving skills. This innovation is supported with results from a…

Educational professionals agree that traditional preservice preparation has been inadequate in preparing educators to teach culturally and/or linguistically diverse students. Reasons for this lack of preparation are generally identified as an insufficient number of diverse teacher candidates and poor infusion of culturally competent practices…

Supports the hypothesis that intensive field experience with children in a school setting contributes to competence in teaching reading. (RB)

The paper describes a study of the practicum experiences for 39 participants in a diploma program for education of the hearing impaired at the University of British Columbia. Students were ranked according to 59 competencies in four categories (lesson planning, communication skills, classroom climate and behavior management, and professional…

Describes a competency-based reading program at Illinois State University and presents some of the limitations and advantages of such a program. (RB)

Competency-based teacher education (CBTE) is discussed in terms of definition, concepts to be found in programs, how to get at the pedagogical and technical competencies, and the problems and promises of CBTE. (BP)