This presidential address by Richard Bates, President of the Australian Teacher Education Association, discusses teacher-education reform in Australia, particularly in the context of public education. Bates contends that in 2006 there are two sets of interests that are particularly dangerous to education: (1) those who see education simply as a…

A U.S. Senator discusses education's accomplishments and pending educational legislation in Congress. Emphasis is placed on the role of the teacher in the education of young people in the future. (CJB)

As enrollment declines in the 1980s, school systems and colleges have three options: (1) extend their resources to different populations, such as senior citizens and preschool children; (2) intensify existing programs; or (3) cut back. (JN)

Teacher educators must again pose searching and complex questions; questions that provoke interdisciplinary interests and lead to examinations of assumptions that can enrich the educational foundation for future teachers. (JN)

The improvement of teacher education will require educators to broaden the philosophic base of education, engage in constructive dialogue with critics, establish high standards of competence, and widen the base of educational research and development. (JD)

Clinical settings are more important in teacher education than simply as arenas in which meaningful instruction behaviors are practiced. Training of teachers must be viewed as a process of induction into the classroom environment, in which the clients (students) work very powerfully on the trainees. (FG)

A learning cycle lesson consists of three phases: concept exploration, concept introduction, and concept application. Describes the application of the learning cycle model to the design of inservice and preservice teacher education curriculum. (MDH)