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Gifford, M. S. – 1992
This paper discusses three issues relating to teacher certification in Kentucky. These issues are: (1) certification of teachers who work with children under the age of 6 years; (2) preparation of teachers for primary education; and (3) alternative certification. The first issue raises questions of whether Kentucky should require certification for…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Inservice Teacher Education
Williams, Cratis D.; Gifford, James M., Ed. – 1995
This book is a memoir of one-room school life in 1929. In his day, Cratis D. Williams (1911-85) was America's foremost scholar on the Appalachian experience. This book is the story of his first teaching assignment at age 18 in a one-room K-8 school on Caines Creek in Lawrence County, Kentucky. Williams details his classroom practices and…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Beginning Teachers, Educational Practices, Elementary Education