This article examines student teachers' investigations of issues related to writing pedagogy, response, and evaluation in an English methods course, including their use of descriptive review of student writing (Carini, 2001) to analyze adolescents' work collaboratively. Beginning with an examination of prevailing understandings of writing…

In this article, service learning is explored as a pedagogical third space from which preservice teachers learn to teach the New English education. We argue that such a space has the potential to foster preservice English teachers' understanding of their role and identity as future teachers and how this identity is always relative to the students…

Discusses a study of six senior English majors at the University of Houston, three of whom intended to be teachers and three who did not. Concludes that English teachers' prior experience as students has a crucial impact on the way they view teaching. (JC)

Reports on a survey of secondary school English teachers and English methods professors that was conducted to determine what they considered the actual content of English methods courses was and what they felt ideally should be included in the courses. (HOD)

Reports on the development and administration of an attitude measure that assessed prospective elementary school teachers attitudes toward language arts and teaching language arts. (HOD)

Reports on a survey of secondary school English teachers and principals that identified the most common instructional problems. (HOD)

Reports the results of using knowledge- and performance-based instruments in the evaluation of preservice secondary school English teachers in the University of Georgia teacher education program. (HOD)

Reports on a survey of cooperating teachers who were asked to rate their student teachers' subject area preparation and general teaching skills. (HOD)

Reports on the responses to questionnaires sent to instructors of both the general secondary level methods course and the more specific English methods course in an attempt to identify possible overlap between the two courses. (HOD)

Personal narratives from first-year English teachers reveal that the social system of the schools in which they teach, the instructional system and its accompanying curriculum requirements and restraints, and the nature of the student population become dominant in determining teachers' behavior and their attitudes toward teaching. (HOD)

Discusses the findings of a 1981 Montana survey that assessed English teachers' attitudes concerning the need for more preservice and inservice preparation. (HOD)

Describes the results of a survey that assessed English teachers' expressed attitudes about the English curriculum, the proper preparation of teachers, and about the nature of English instruction. (HOD)

Reports on the responses to a questionnaire mailed to the subscribers of "English Education" which queried them about their preferences for articles dealing with English teaching and with the preparation of English teachers at various levels. (HOD)

Reports on a study indicating that education students entering a beginning children's literature course have not read or heard read aloud many of children's literature classics and award-winning books. (RL)

A survey of the course content, reading lists, assignments, and grading procedures used in 63 adolescent literature courses across the country. (RL)