Articles on career education for teachers, curriculum development in teacher education programs to reflect the human services component, and the interface between teacher education programs and human service agencies are annotated. (JD)

Predictions are ventured for teacher education in the year 2000. (PBS)

An in-service coordinator can encourage each teacher to select personally a program that fits the teacher's learning style. (JD)

Results and participant feedback indicate that self-appraisal is a promising staff development approach. (JD)

Proposed guidelines for preparing teachers to meet the unique challenge of teaching adolescent students are outlined. (JD)

Differences are shown between the structure and educational philosophy of the middle school and the traditional junior high school. Characteristics of school organization which are sensitive to the needs of preadolescent youth are described. (JD)

Interviews with beginning teachers reveal that they agree that education students should take methods courses and apply them in a local school setting simultaneously. (JD)

A survey of deans of colleges of education indicated two major issues: cultivating and promoting progressive ideas among faculty and students, and regret that they had little time for personal pursuits. (JD)

Mass media instruction should be introduced into secondary and high school curriculum to train students to become knowledgeable judges and producers of quality production in this medium. (JD)

Schools of education should provide teachers with the ability to cope with the tension and stress they will be subjected to in the classroom. (JD)

As NCATE progresses toward streamlining and improving the accreditation process, use of the rating scales seems imperative in maximizing the effectiveness of visiting team reports, and for further quantitative investigation of standards. (JD)

A teacher's ability and skill in estimating student states of mind provides essential information for deciding what and how to teach. (JD)

Because of the enormity of challenges that confront teachers in urban schools, teachers should be finely trained in an intensive educational program. (JD)

Needs of teachers and students occasionally conflict. The problem can be solved if the teacher is able to communicate his or her needs, respect students' needs and rights, and show confidence in their ability to be highly adaptable problem solvers. (JD)

To use the words "multicultural education" is to diminish and make narrow an important educational concept. Education in a pluralistic society is necessarily multicultural. (JD)