This article examines selected basic assumptions that relate to minority student recruitment into teacher education programs. Four categories of minority recruitment endeavors are discussed and examples of each are provided. (IAH)

Interviews with 32 British and Irish supervisors of U.S. student teachers produced several suggestions for improving the preparation component of overseas practicum placements. Suggestions related to planning and preparation for teaching, basic teacher preparation courses, cultural preparation, content, arrangements and logistics, teacher image…

Findings are reported from a study which investigated teacher preferences for incentives used to encourage and reward cooperating teachers as well as their preferences for training to enhance the quality of their supervision. The most popular incentive alternatives among teachers (N=97) were professional development and monetary rewards. (IAH)

The Detroit Public Schools-Wayne State University Elementary Team Internship Pilot Program was developed to provide an internship (after the student teaching experience) permitting elementary education students to assume the role of teacher. The team internship unit consisted of four interns, two assigned to each of two proximate classrooms; one…

Recognizing that weaknesses in teacher education programs stem partly from the isolation of the school of education from both the liberal arts and the public schools, Northwestern University designed a program to make teacher preparation an all-university responsibility, to strengthen academic preparation, and to increase the relevance of…

At the end of their initial year of training, teacher trainees in Los Angeles (California) attend several presentations entitled Multicultural Week. Researchers analyzed presentation content and teachers' views of stereotypes and teaching diverse students before and after the presentation. Results indicated the presentations had little effect on…

Case studies of six preservice teachers assessed their emerging perspectives about problems confronting diverse students, commitment to teaching diverse students, and beliefs about causes of failure for diverse learners. The paper describes students' perceptions of influences on their perspectives including coursework, background experiences,…

Preservice and inservice teacher education must prompt teachers and educators to question issues of race, class, and ethnicity and develop appropriate courses of action. Teacher research is useful in that regard. Teachers can use research in work with other teachers and teacher educators to examine their knowledge, attitudes, and behavior. (SM)

Describes how a beginning teacher learned to teach an African American second grader to read. The narrative unfolds through a longitudinal study of the teacher's learning to teach diverse students. The story illustrates important influences upon her learning to teach and resisting norms that excluded attention to children's diverse needs. (SM)

The school lives of culturally diverse young adolescents identified as potential dropouts were studied ethnographically. Data collected across two years indicated that teachers who students considered most successful in helping them learn used practices based on knowledge about students' home cultures and knowledge about the impact of students'…

Describes a study of a staff development project in multicultural education involving teachers from two contiguous school districts, highlighting structural constraints to change. Interviews and observations indicated staff development for multicultural education should be part of a whole-school reorganization rather than a separate activity to…

Describes a cross-cultural course offered by the Faculty of Education at the University of Regina (Saskatchewan, Canada) to develop preservice teachers' understanding of aboriginal cultures, taking data from instructors' experiences and student narratives. The paper discusses the lack of understanding in white preservice teachers' views of self…

Examines why there are so few Native American teachers in this country, specifically in the upper Midwest. Describes how one institution has increased the number of native teachers and notes student reactions to assimilation at a traditional, largely white university. Proposes an eight-hour workshop on diversity training for faculty. (SM)

Addresses the need for greater understanding of the complex, contradictory nature of preservice teachers' life experiences as they interact with a multicultural, social reconstructionist teacher education course. The paper describes a study of the course and portrays two students' prior experiences that influenced their motivations to teach…

Describes the situational complexity of the "Coalition for Education That Is Multicultural," a teacher development group of continuous inquiry into practice by reflective practitioners interested in resistance and collective social action. Interviews with and observations of female members over six months provide information on vision, leadership,…