A competency-oriented training program to help special and regular teachers meet the educational needs of handicapped children is organized around several three-credit inservice courses. Instructors are key components of the approach and are carefully selected, trained, evaluated, and supported. (CL)

A bilingual first grade teacher and bilingual teacher educator share how they collaborated in a learning and teaching experience to facilitate, guide, and evaluate bilingual children's literacy and biliteracy development using journal writing. Tables outline directions, questions, solutions, and insights for establishing a daily journal writing…

University Level IGE is seen as applicable and effective for professors because the procedural elements of IGE, particularly team teaching and the deliberate use of varying modes of media instruction, are readily transferable to the university environment. (MM)

Teachers meet to resolve the new problems of localizing and individualizing instruction, as they prepare students to live in an ever changing world. (Editor)

Teacher trainers may react to metrication in one of three ways: ignore it; mistakenly believe it is being taught in science courses; or investigate the Systeme Internationale (SI) metric, learn it, and teach it. Specific reading materials are recommended, and ten actions for industrial teacher educators are suggested. (AG)

During the past 20 years, Sweden has become Western Europe's pioneer in educational reforms. Its most recent innovation is a plan for improving the teaching practices at the university level. (Author)

Based upon the results of a recently completed study, the authors offer the perceptions of junior high and middle school principals as to the competencies, attitudes, characteristics, and training for teachers at the intermediate school level. (Editor)

External pressures are bringing changes in agriculture, in education, and in the agricultural education program. Federal involvement is on the decline. The profession will need to serve a more active leadership role. Its role should be one of encouraging innovation and development rather than one of defending the status quo. (SSH)

The Instructional Leadership Project of the Anne Arundel County (Maryland) Public Schools determined staff development needs in the district's secondary schools and designed a three-year program to help administrators, guidance personnel, and department chairpersons build the requisite staff development skills. (PGD)

Traditional teacher preparation programs are based on a theory-practice format, which means that the college student begins with the coursework (theory) and moves through various stages of practice to becoming a teacher. Efforts to introduce relevance in teacher preparation programs have included student teaching and internships, laboratory…

The Texas Network for Preparing School Based Teacher Educators (SBTEs) is a statewide cooperative effort of forty teacher centers, governed by an advisory board of fourteen members, and devoted to the improvement of instruction in elementary and secondary schools through improved practice of SBTEs. The SBTE is defined as being a professional…

The first ten pages of this report give a brief overview of the Trainers of Teacher Trainers (TTT) Program and a description of the organization of the site visits. The remainder of the report summarizes the findings of the visits to 40 TTT projects by forty four-member teams. The four members of each team represent the four groups participating…