The problems facing teacher educators who encounter criticism from graduates on one hand and low status in the university on the other are discussed. (JD)

A prediction is made on changes that will occur in teacher education as educators respond to a changing society. (JD)

The services, products, and activities of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouse on Teacher Education are described, and upcoming clearinghouse publications are briefly annotated. (JD)

Changes in enrollment patterns and new demands on higher education suggest the need for greater institutional accountability for defining the needs and providing the processes through which individual faculty initiatives and those of basic academic units can have some play. (JD)

Professional development of university and college faculty is one of the key, but unmet, needs facing teacher education today. (JD)

If the teaching-scholar is to become the principal agent for maintaining the vitality of higher education, then a new role for the future must be defined. (JD)

The importance of continuous personal and professional growth to teachers and teacher educators is discussed. (JD)

The central features of a school's or college's planned effort to bring about constructive change and stabilization are discussed. (JD)

The role of the institution of higher education in inservice teacher education is examined. (JD)

Sound organizational processes in administrative and academic units in schools of education enable personnel to gros and develop personally and professionally. (JD)

Increased inservice and continuing education is essential as demands upon teachers change and become more complex. (JD)

Future trends that involve either faculty development workers, their constituencies, or the milieu within which they exist are as complex as the future of higher education and are interrelated. (JD)

The focus of schools, colleges, and departments of education must shift from concentration on preservice education to a concerted effort to develop a cadre of personnel equipped to deliver inservice education to field practitioners. (JD)

The need for improvement of faculty in schools of education to meet the growing demand for closer involvement between colleges and practicing teachers is discussed in a question and answer interview with the director of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Teacher Education. (JD)

This study suggest that feedback, goal setting, and goal setting combined with feedback, when coupled with systematic observation and inservice training of teachers in instructional behaviors being observed, promotes instructional behavior change of those teachers who choose for themselves the nature and direction of the changes. (JD)