Preservice education specifically, and teacher education generally, should be more of a collaborative responsibility and an interrelated endeavor than it presently is. (Author)

The author presents a research methodology that addresses the problems of (1) integrating research on teacher effectiveness and research on training effectiveness; and (2) combining teacher trainer and researcher in a common effort to develop professional competence in teaching. (MJB)

Presented is an annotated bibliography of thirty-five documents, contained in the ERIC "Resources in Education" and "Current Index to Journals in Education" data banks and dealing with broad issues in the field of teacher education. (MJB)

The opinions of preservice teachers are presented to illustrate the author's feeling that the education profession, faced with taxpayer resistance to increased educational costs, must become more aware of profit/loss ratios and more accountable. (MB)

Student teacher observation supported the hypotheses that those with high Identity Diffusion Indexes and Identity Resolution Indexes would (a) receive lower grades in student teaching, (b) accept fewer learner ideas in classroom interaction, and (c) ask fewer higher level questions during classroom interaction, thereby suggesting the use of…

Observation of student teacher behavior was undertaken to determine interpretive and managerial skills necessary for adapting to the environmental demands of classrooms. The five skills isolated were (1) "chunking" (grouping discrete events), (2) differentiation (distinguishing the importance of events), (3) overlap (handling several events at…

While raising the SAT scores of students is a worthy goal, it is important not to lose sight of the need for teachers to develop their own professional knowledge, so they may broaden the vision of pupils and give them an understanding of the importance of human interaction in the world beyond the classroom. (JD)

Two major themes permeate this examination of problems facing the teaching profession today: (1) unrestrained criticism of the teacher education process will result in the destruction of teaching as a profession; and (2) despite the drawbacks, teaching professionals have the desire and power to overcome problems through hard work and cooperation.…

Overall impressions are drawn from an interpretation of data gathered through a survey of institutional heads, program heads, faculty, and students of institutions having preservice teacher education programs. (MJB)

A teacher center serving ten small school districts emphasizes reinforcing teachers' skills in classroom management, individualized instruction, and teacher-made classroom materials. (JD)

Teaching contests using experimental teaching units are suggested as a means of identifying some teaching skills that are effective for all contexts (e.g., different grades and subject areas) and those that are effective in some contexts. (JD)

In a specialized teacher education program, students are prepared to teach in prisons and correctional institutions. (JD)

This program is based on the theory that students in education need early exposure to the classroom and is designed so that the student progresses through the professional education sequence receiving progressively more complex assignments. (JD)

This article offers suggestions on imaginative and entertaining ways to illustrate and clarify concepts in the classroom with particular emphasis on capturing and holding the interest of adult students in evening classes. (JD)