Issues in Teacher Education articles from March 2006

Issues in Teacher Education archives from March 2006

An omnibus review of reform in teacher education: California five years after the SB 2042 reforms.
March 22, 2006... The focus of this issue of Issues in Teacher Education is the changes in teacher education brought about in response to various national, state, and local educational reform movements of the 1990s. In the previous decade, reform in public...

Timing is everything: building state policy on teacher credentialing in an era of multiple, competing, and rapid education reforms.
March 22, 2006... Artist, teacher, and poet M. C. Richards once said, "Let no one think that the birth of humanity is to be felt without terror. The transformation that awaits us costs everything in the way of courage. Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of...

Costs and benefits of accountability: a case study of credential candidates' performance assessment.
March 22, 2006... Introduction In this article we present a case study that is an exploration of credential candidates' attitudes toward a teaching performance assessment as a measure of their teaching ability, and the impact on faculty instructional...

Reforming urban teacher education: SB 2042 implementation five years later.
March 22, 2006... Introduction In October 2002, the multiple and single subject credential programs at a large urban Los Angeles Basin California State University campus, were approved as Early Adopters of the SB 2042 Professional Teacher Preparation...

From BTSA to induction: the changing role of school districts in teacher credentialing.(Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment )
March 22, 2006... A 2nd year BTSA teacher, Sarah, called the county BTSA program director to ask how to complete the two-year Induction Program in four weeks. The program director explained that according to program records she had not fully participated in Year...

Is there room for biliteracy? Credentialing California's future bilingual teachers.
March 22, 2006... Introduction Despite the ethnic and linguistic diversity found in California's public schools, or because of it, in 1998 voters approved Proposition 227, a ballot initiative designed to dismantle bilingual education programs in the state....

Looking at answers about reform: findings from the SB 2042 implementation study.
March 22, 2006... The state of California has undertaken a comprehensive effort to reform the preparation of the state's public school teachers. During the decade of the 1990s and into the twenty-first century, this effort has been motivated by research that...