Issues in Teacher Education articles from March 2011

Issues in Teacher Education archives from March 2011

Introduction.
March 22, 2011... Welcome to the Spring 2011 issue of Issues in Teacher Education (ITE). We've added some new features we hope you will enjoy. First, we invited Thomas Nelson, outgoing editor of Teacher Education Quarterly, to write about the workshop he...

Critiquing scholarship as formal review: the role and responsibilities of readers for academic journals.(Essay)
March 22, 2011... Central to the success of any academic journal is the quality of reviews submitted by those who serve as readers. The peer review process is a traditional function for almost all academic research-based publications. In turn, academic journals...

An analysis of the factors that influence preservice elementary teachers' developing dispositions about teaching all children.(Report)
March 22, 2011... Introduction In preparing teacher candidates to meet the challenges of teaching in the 21st century, it is not sufficient to focus on knowledge and skills. Teacher preparation programs also must focus on the moral and ethical responsibilities...

Self-perceived dispositions that predict challenges during student teaching: a data mining analysis.(Essay)
March 22, 2011... Over the past decade, United States educators, researchers, and policymakers have advocated the need to facilitate student learning through effective teaching. Their goal has been to increase the achievement levels of all students, especially to...

Defining the job of university supervisor: a department-wide study of university supervisors' practices.(Report)
March 22, 2011... Introduction The descriptions of our first positions as assistant professors included the supervision of student teachers, a set of responsibilities that we believed we clearly understood. As prior secondary teachers, we had served as...

Changes over time in faculty attitudes, confidence, and understanding as related to program assessment.(Report)
March 22, 2011... Introduction This article examines the sustained impact of a workshop series held to support faculty engagement in program assessment in the College of Education at California State University, Long Beach. The four-part series, held monthly...

Parenting a child with learning disabilities: a viewpoint for teachers from a teacher and parent.(Voices from the Field)(Essay)
March 22, 2011... Introduction When I adopted my son, I was an early childhood educator with a Master's Degree who had taught young children for eight years and directed a child care and infant-toddler center for seven. I thought I knew something about...

Photography for teacher preparation in literacy: innovations in instruction.(Innovative Practices)(Essay)
March 22, 2011... My new graduate students in Curriculum and Instruction at San Diego State University reacted with surprise when they discovered that the syllabus indicated no requisite textbook. Instead, access to a camera was required. "Any camera will do:...

Tough Choices for Teachers: Ethical Challenges in Today's Schools and Classrooms.(Book review)
March 22, 2011... Tough Choices for Teachers: Ethical Challenges in Today's Schools and Classrooms by Robert Infantino & Rebecca Wilke New York: Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2009 152 pp., $24.95. ISBN 978-1-60709-086-1 Tough Choices for...

Rethinking Disability: A Disability Studies Approach to Inclusive Practices.(Book review)
March 22, 2011... Rethinking Disability: A Disability Studies Approach to Inclusive Practices by Jan W. Valle & David J. Connor New York: McGraw Haill, 2011 235 pp. $23.00, ISBN 978-0-07-52604-1 Rethinking Disability: A Disability Studies...

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky: A Novel.(Book review)
March 22, 2011... The Girl Who Fell from the Sky: A Novel by Heidi W. Durrow Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 2010 264 pp., $22.95, ISBN 978-1-56512-680-0 "I am a story," says Heidi Durrow, author of The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, at a book tour in...