This article provides suggestions on how futurism can become action for the present. (Author/JA)

This article describes a teacher education approach devised by the Emory University's Division of Educational Studies and two systems of the Atlanta, Georgia metropolitan area that combines in-service education and preservice education. (JA)

This article reports on a team teaching adventure at the University of Miami in which 40 junior education majors were taught by a college team. (JA)

The research base in the study of teaching is broader than it has ever been. The most obvious use of this research is in teacher education programs. Pedagogy must become a laboratory-based field of study, with environments in which to experiment with producing cognitive and affective change in children. (MT)

Using 11interacting parameters containing a wide range of variables, teacher education programs can be displayed in a matrix, which provides a device for ordering, summarizing, and synthesizing available literature and for generating new questions for research. Construction and uses of the matrix are illustrated. (MT)

Although teaching and teacher education are related, the knowledge base for teacher education is not the knowledge base about teacher education. Differences are described and implications of research are discussed. The study of the professional development of teachers needs to be informed by multiple conceptions of the world. (MT)

Although research suggests that teachers make a difference in student performance, the variables are too numerous and the interactions too complex for the researcher to confidently identify the degree of a teacher's influence. But research can and should inform teacher educators about probable outcomes or products of the teaching process. (MT)

Common sense cannot and must not serve as the basis for professional practice. It is an inadequate approach to understanding the workings of the school bureaucracy and counterproductive in efforts to foster student learning. The great challenge to teacher educators is not to miss present opportunities to upgrade teacher education. (MT)