Interviews with 17 technology teacher education programs found that 5 require elementary technology concepts courses; all use a hands-on approach; 7 provide inservice training for elementary teachers. They identified difficulties in promoting awareness of elementary school technology education and working with colleagues in other fields. (Contains…

Intends to fill the gap in the literature on science teacher preparation in Japan by focusing on the form, content, and processes of the student teaching experience associated with K-12 "attached" schools at Hiroshima University. Captures and describes processes that are central to Japanese models of teacher preparation. (SAH)

Introduces the notion of culturalizing science instruction--making the values enacted in science teaching and the resulting contexts explicit. In contrast to the possibility of value-free instruction implied in the philosophy level of Baptiste's typology, a premise of culturalizing science instruction is that curriculum is taught in a way that…

Surveys middle level female students (n=215) for their perceptions about the nature of science and the nature of the science classroom learning environment. Methodologies used in the study focus on the mental constructs that girls create from those perceptions as opposed to the views gained through teacher report, classroom observation, or…

Discusses how 36 student science teachers described and responded to one of their own classroom management problems. Based on student teachers' written accounts of a well-remembered event about classroom management. (SAH)

Examines the effects of block scheduling on teacher practice and student achievement. Sought to recognize the professional lives of teachers as a context for both change and stability. Investigates two questions: (1) How does one type of block schedule reform change science classroom practice within specific subjects; and (2) How does this reform…

Discusses the importance of teacher reflection in education. Draws distinctions between refection in practice, reflection on practice, and reflection for practice. Makes three propositions that suggest a range of potentially fruitful research questions. (ASK)

Examine resources and their use in school mathematics from the perspective of mathematics teacher education with a view to the practice of school mathematics. Provides examples of resource use within an in-service teacher education research project in South Africa. Concludes that mathematics teacher education needs to focus more attention on…

Investigates from students', professors', and researchers' perspectives the effects of a reform-based introductory undergraduate mathematics course and the efforts of a mathematics professor to teach such a course. Indicates that teacher candidates and the professor took an important step toward enculturation into a reform-based vision of…

Discusses findings from an investigation into 42 prospective elementary teachers' views of mathematics teaching and learning with the focus on how the participants saw the roles of teachers, pupils, and mathematics in mathematics classes as they communicated their views in journals written during the study. Some teachers expressed a tendency to…

Discusses the creation of the Instituts Universitaires de Formation des Maitres. Describes the elements of the articulation between theory and practice in preservice secondary mathematics teacher education in France. (ASK)

Presents an overview of two surveys that focused on French teachers' classroom practices, the first of which provides an overview of the difficulties experienced by beginning teachers while the second survey provides a more detailed description of the classroom practices of experienced teachers. Proposes a research project on teacher professional…

Utilized a questionnaire to gather information about what strategies teachers and principals believed held the most promise for improving student learning in science and mathematics. Discusses questionnaire responses concerning science. (Author/SAH)

Analyzes the practices of two skilled and experienced middle level teachers with regard to research-based criteria for cognitive scaffolding in support of inquiry-oriented teaching. Research questions include: (1) what do skilled, experienced teachers do when scaffolding inquiry-oriented instruction; and (2) in what ways do they align with…

Examines two questions about science education faculty's knowledge and use of technology: (1) are science teacher education faculty using technology in their classrooms; and (2) do they desire to learn more about integrating technology into their efforts to prepare future science teachers? (Author/SAH)