Themes and Issues in Faculty Development Case Studies in Innovative Practice in Teacher Education

by Rentel, Victor M.; Dittmer, Allan; Knight, Lester; Yeager, Annette; Cuevas, Gilbert J.; Ferarra, Margaret M.; Seider, Susan N.; Rafferty, Cathleen

• ISBN13: 9780761815136
• ISBN10: 0761815139
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-10-20
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

The problem of how to prepare teachers for work in urban school systems is a critical issue in education today. In this timely volume of contributed articles, the authors describe the newly implemented faculty development programs at seven urban universities. With varying success, each of these universities improved the preparation of schoolteachers by developing programs to educate their own faculties on ways to address the problems of urban children, their schools, and their communities. Until recently, few urban universities were committed to local community development. The authors of the case studies presented here persuasively argue that urban universities should broaden their missions to include this commitment, and they provide concrete examples of how that can be done.

Table of Contents

Foreword
The Context for Faculty Development	1	(24)
Victor M. Rentel
Allan Dittmer
The Daunting Task of Faculty Development	25	(22)
Allan Dittmer
Innovative Practice in Teacher Education The University of Tennessee: Knoxville	47	(16)
Lester Knight
Faculty Development: The Ohio State University Case	63	(26)
Victor M. Rentel
Faculty Development at the Faculty of Education: University of Toronto	89	(16)
Annette Yeager
Faculty Development: Making Connections In a Restructured Teacher Education Program	105	(12)
Gilbert J. Cuevas
Faculty Development: Vision to Implementation	117	(32)
Margaret M. Ferarra
Susan N. Seider
Changing the Professional Culture Through Professional Development: Efforts at Indiana State University	149	(34)
Cathleen Rafferty
Faculty Development: A Synthesis	183	(14)
Susan N. Seider
Margaret M. Ferarra
Victor M. Rentel
Allan Dittmer
References	197	(18)
Index	215