The article challenges the efficacy of the manager metaphor for new teachers, proposing an alternative metaphor of the teacher as technician. Teacher educators can simplify the classroom management training process by limiting the skills covered and focusing in more depth on what teachers will actually experience. (SM)

Explores curriculum collaboration between professional education and liberal arts faculty. The paper describes curriculum models used by teacher preparation institutions to structure the relationship between professional education and liberal arts coursework (integrated, collaborative, and segmented), presenting case examples. The efficacy of a…

Three challenges must be met if certain reform endeavors are to succeed and professional efficacy for teaching is to be accomplished: the involvement of teachers in policy decision making, the definition of the knowledge base, and the unification of educational interest groups. (IAH)