Recently added articles from Teacher Education Quarterly:
Editor's Introduction: Challenging Contemporary Politics-(Re)Imagining the Professionalization of Teaching and Learning
Jul 01, 2009; ... In the recently released book, Education and the Making of a Democratic People, John Goodlad comments on educational policy directives: The American people are not accustomed to having nonnegotiable mandates for their schools (like NCLB) imposed by federal authorities, mandates that, if ...
Teaching Morally and Teaching Morality
Jul 01, 2009; ... Student achievement is not the only topic of conversation in teachers' lounges, parent-teacher organizations, and teacher education classrooms. There is also much discussion of the moral features of teaching and learning. Sometimes this talk centers on such issues as prayer in schools, sex ...
Observation in Learning to Teach: Forms of "Seeing"
Jul 01, 2009; ... When asked to convey his account of the observation experience during practice teaching, in the context of a university teacher training program in Israel, Sandy, a first year student teacher (teacher candidate), wrote the following entry in his portfolio: I feel sorry to say that the ...
Information on the California Council on Teacher Education
Jul 01, 2009; ... Founded in 1945, the California Council on the Education of Teachers (now the California Council on Teacher Education as of July 2001) is a non-profit organization devoted to stimulating the improvement of the preservice and inservice education of teachers and administrators. The Council attends ...
Stepping Out of the Classroom: Building Teacher Knowledge for Developing Classroom Practice
Jul 01, 2009; ... This study presents the case of one kindergarten teacher who, in order to reflect on and address her classroom practice in mathematics, conducted an in-depth examination of a single child in her classroom. This examination took place within the context of a Professional Study Group of elementary ...