Issues in Teacher Education articles from September 2005

Issues in Teacher Education archives from September 2005

Editor's introduction.
September 22, 2005... Issues in Teacher Education presents to readers in this Fall 2005 issue an eclectic set of ideas for teacher educators to consider, as well as some changes to the journal itself. By now you will have seen the new cover, and I hope you like it...

Forecasting demand for California credentialed teachers.
September 22, 2005... Developing enough quality credentialed teachers to meet the needs of America's children is the paramount goal of teacher education programs and school districts across the country and, since 2001, required by the federal mandate, No Child Left...

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

Implementing portfolios in a teacher education program.
September 22, 2005... The increased focus on the preparation of pre-service teachers for teaching in an ever-changing world impacts how teacher education programs both prepare and assess pre-service teachers (National Commission on Teaching and America's Future,...

A social reconstructionist framework for reflection: the "problematizing" of teaching.
September 22, 2005... It is impossible to ignore that most national and state accrediting entities (i.e., NCATE, CCTC) outline "reflection" as a requirement in their professional standards for teaching. Regardless of the official certification requirements imposed...

Developing knowledge of coaching.
September 22, 2005... School-based coaching for literacy teachers has taken on an important role in school reform in recent years. Although the literature contains numerous and compelling descriptions of the perceived, positive effects of mentoring (Shulman, 2004),...

Exploring a new pedagogy: Teaching for Intellectual and Emotional Learning (TIEL).
September 22, 2005... The role of teacher educators is to develop the capacity in pre-service teachers for complex teaching that will prepare them to create and teach in "learning communities [that are] humane, intellectually challenging, and pluralistic"...

Negotiating Critical Literacies with Young Children.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Negotiating Critical Literacies with Young Children By Vivian Maria Vasquez Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004 ISBN 0-8058-4053-2, 158 pp. Reviewed By Sylvia Maxson California State University, Long Beach In her introduction...

What Keeps Teachers Going?(Book review)
September 22, 2005... What Keeps Teachers Going? By Sonia Nieto New York: Teachers College Press, 2003 Reviewed by Christine M. Kerfoot University of the Pacific In What Keeps Teachers Going? Sonia Nieto presents three major questions which serve as the...