BACKGROUND Adult education institutions have been identified as potential settings to improve health literacy and address the health inequalities that stem from limited health literacy. However, few health literacy interventions have been tested in this setting. METHODS Feasibility study for an RCT of the UK Skilled for Health Program adapted for implementation in Australian adult education s...

Early retirement incentives (ERIs) are increasingly prevalent in education as districts seek to close budget gaps by replacing expensive experienced teachers with lower-cost newer teachers. Combined with the aging of the teacher workforce, these ERIs are likely to change the composition of teachers dramatically in the coming years. We use exogenous variation from an ERI program in Illinois in t...

Our new feature is a section with articles on teacher preparation. The Physics Teacher Education Coalition (PhysTEC), an APS/AAPT/AIP program, will be soliciting these articles and organizing this section. PhysTEC provides dramatic improvement of science preparation of physics, physical science, and elementary teachers, developing programs that work at a wide range of institutions. Our thanks t...

PREPARING TEACHER CANDIDATES TO BE EFFECTIVE URBAN EDUCATORS WHOARE REFLECTIVE, INNOVATIVE, AND COMMITTED TO DIVERSITY byCHAVON L. JACKSON December, 2011Advisor: Dr. Kathleen Crawford-McKinneyMajor: Curriculum and InstructionDegree: Doctor of Philosophy The purpose of this study was to examine to what extent a teacher educationprogram prepares teacher candidates to b...

The department of Curriculum and Instruction at Iowa State University, USA offers a leading residential program of information communication technology (ICT) in teacher education. Based on the success of this program, in 2003, faculty members and instructional developers at Iowa State University Center for Technology in Learning and Teaching (http://www.ctlt.iastate.edu) created an online maste...

Government of Indonesia held a certification program to enhance the professionalism of teachers by using portfolio assessment. This research discusses about the effectiveness of certification programs to enhance the professionalism of teacher in Indonesia. Portfolio assessment method has drawbacks. The certified teachers do not show significant performance improvement. Therefore, the government...

The literature provides evidence and an understanding of the influence of the workplace on the induction year and beyond of physical education teachers. Prospective physical education teachers (recruits) enter teacher preparation programs with pre-conceived mental models of themselves in the teaching workforce. Few studies focus on the change process of teacher preparation programs and possible...

Unification of Two Approaches to Teacher Training in Iran: A Critical Review of Farhangiyan University’s Charter   N. Moosaapoor, Ph.D.*   The historical facts imbedded in the century-old Iranian experience in teacher training reveal two different and coexisting approaches. One is a university-based four-year program aiming at training high school teachers, while the other is a two-year pro...