Issues in Teacher Education articles from March 2005

Issues in Teacher Education archives from March 2005

Guest editors' introduction.
March 22, 2005... The state of science education in California is much like the rest of the nation. Schools and districts across the country are challenged with issues that mirror our concerns. Issues related to No Child Left Behind and an emphasis on raising...

Using science notebooks to promote preservice teachers' understanding of formative assessment.
March 22, 2005... The research project described in this article explored how using science notebooks in science methods courses affected preservice teachers' understanding of and predicted use of formative assessment involving science notebooks. The National...

Information on the California Council on Teacher Education.
March 22, 2005... Founded in 1945, the California Council on Teacher Education is a non-profit organization devoted to stimulating the improvement of the preservice and inservice education of teachers and administrators. The Council attends to this general goal...

Developing a community of teachers through integrated science and literacy service-learning experiences.
March 22, 2005... Service-learning involves the integration of community service with academic coursework. Activities related to service-learning "... inform, clarify, illustrate and stimulate additional thought about academic topics covered in the classroom, as...

Inquiry science, sheltered instruction, and English Language Learners: conflicting pedagogies in highly diverse classrooms.
March 22, 2005... Over the past half century a great deal has changed in American education. Schools are no longer legally segregated, the number of students aged 25 years or younger has quadrupled, and currently one-fourth of all people in the United States are...

Using SIOP in science: response to Settlage, Madsen, and Rustad.
March 22, 2005... It isn't unusual for an instructional model or approach to be misinterpreted in practice. Madeline Hunter bemoaned the way her Mastery Teaching approach was reduced to a seven step lesson plan. Although the Sheltered Instruction Observation...

Using web-based "snapshots of practice" to explore science learning and teaching in a course for prospective teachers (1).
March 22, 2005... How can science teacher educators engage prospective teachers in exploring pedagogical issues? One approach is to discuss written cases (e.g., Tippins, Koballa, & Payne, 2001); another is video cases (e.g., Abell, Bryan, & Anderson, 1998)....

Semiannual call for proposals for presentations at CCTE conferences.(California Council on Teacher Education)
March 22, 2005... The California Council on Teacher Education (CCTE) invites submission of research and best practice proposals for its semi-annual conferences, held each Fall in San Diego and each Spring in San Jose. Proposals are encouraged which address: (1)...

Rural school-community partnerships: the case of science education (1).
March 22, 2005... Partnerships as a strategy for education reform have recently taken on increased national importance. The No Child Left Behind Act [NCLB] (2001) promotes an agenda for the development of partnerships with particular emphasis on mathematics and...

Using a science/technology/society approach to prepare reform-oriented science teachers: the case of a secondary science methods course.
March 22, 2005... Recent science education reform efforts have focused on science instruction that enhances student understanding of the nature of science, enables them to critically analyze scientific information as well as to apply it in real-life situations,...

School of Dreams.
March 22, 2005... School of Dreams by Edward Humes What can happen when a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist spends a year in a top-ranked public high school--a school where a majority of the student body has near-perfect SAT scores and dreams crowded with...