In this article, the authors--the teacher educators who obtained a grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations (AVD)--explore what it meant for teachers and teacher educators involved in the PorTRAIT (Practitioner or Teacher Researchers As Inquiring Travelers) program to enlarge their views of teacher research and their own classrooms by being…

Describes the community of English educators in 2001. Considers individual and collective roles of English educators as modeling life-long learning for students, prospective teachers, and colleagues. Concludes that the vision of English educators in the 21st century must be locally constructed and rest upon the desires of participants to make…

Recounts how a university/high school program was set up between a college of education and public school professionals--redesigning the teacher education program in secondary English at the University of Georgia was the end result. Cites the problems faced and gives a theoretical framework. Discusses early stages and relationships, as well as…

Analyzes the relationships between student teachers and their cooperating teachers. Describes in detail the semester-long field experience of one student/cooperating teacher pair. (HB)