An assessment model for a preservice teacher education program is described that is developmental, allows for skills enhancement, involves both arts and science education faculty review, and includes evaluation strategies other than standard pen-and-pencil tests. Assumptions underlying the model are presented and the sequence of assessments as…

Teacher education testing requirements for all of the states are displayed on a chart. Categories of information include: date of data revision, the name of the test, passing rates, and passing scores for both admission to teacher education programs and teacher certification. (JD)

Articles and documents in the ERIC system that deal with evaluation of teacher education programs are listed in this bibliography. The focus is mainly on who is setting the standards for accreditation, what these standards are, how effective they have been, and how current evaluation systems can be improved. (JD)

A description is given of the design, implementation, and outcomes of a combination methods course and field experience for preservice reading teachers. The program involved cooperating teachers in a collaborative manner assisting elementary children with reading problems, and increased both cooperating and student teachers' knowledge of reading…

The critical need for minority teachers is discussed and descriptions given of the social, educational, and political conditions that militate against increasing minority enrollments. False hopes for enhancing minority student involvement are highlighted, and realistic approaches to recruiting and preparing minority teachers are outlined. (JD)

Florida's testing program appears to be counterproductive to increasing the number of minority teachers. The high school diploma test, the ACT/SAT, university and teacher education admission score requirements, the "rising junior" test, and teacher certification and examination represent serious obstacles to minority students who want to teach.…

A survey of schools of education inquired into minority teacher education recruitment and retention methods. Survey results underscored the importance of commitments to funding scholarships, offering support services, providing ethnic-specific opportunities, and hiring minority professional staff. (JD)

This article addresses issues and problems in recruiting minorities into teaching, including diminution of minority teacher candidates, the influence of competency tests for admittance to teacher education programs, the academic preparation of teacher candidates, and the development of programs to attract qualified minorities into teacher…

This article suggests additional possibilities for reconceptualist thought, which is characterized by an experimental bent and a disdain for orthodoxy, as well as new venues for action. Possible contributions by reconceptualists to issues of curricular reform, experimental schools, education courses and preservice teacher education are discussed.…

Political and curricular issues accompanying a curricular reconceptualization of teacher education are discussed. This article sketches qualities of one possible version of a reconceptualist teacher preparation program, making use of modified Holmes Group proposals. (IAH)

Phenomenological and feminist themes in reconceptualist curriculum theory are used to address the political and social status of teachers and their intellectual preparation for teaching. Arguments are offered for autobiographical studies in education, collaborative modes of learning and teaching, and interdisciplinary approaches to liberal arts…

The methods of teaching and the content of social meliorism must become coeval entities in teacher education. This article discusses implications of the trend which has led schools of education, and their faculties and leaders, to become preoccupied with the means rather than the ends of schooling practice. (IAH)

This article analyzes an attempt to put into practice a critically reflective, ideologically sensitive program for teacher preparation. The institutional and ideological forces which led to the eventual failure of these restructuring efforts are described, with emphasis given to ways in which a college culture can affect curricular reforms. (IAH)

Two strands of curriculum inquiry reconceptualization are discussed; both are in contrast to the dominant empirical-analytical orientation to teacher education. Hermeneutic inquiry serves practical interests and proceeds by an interactive form of social organization. Critical inquiry serves emancipatory interests and is organized socially through…

Findings from a study, based on observation of dyadic teacher-student interaction in high school science classes, indicate that teachers of all levels of experience tend to interact more with male students than female students, and both newly prepared and experienced teachers lack the skills needed to alter their gender-biased behaviors. (IAH)