The beliefs, skills, and intended practices of general (n 34) and special education (n 23) preservice teachers regarding planning and making accommodations for included students with mental retardation were investigated. Participants were drawn from teacher preparation programs that infused content related to inclusion into pre-existing courses. Results of a repeated-measures ANOVA indicated a ...

Professor John M. Sayles, pr incipal of Milne High school, wi l l load a round table discussion at the Eighth Annual Junior High school conference, under the auspices of the school of education at New York university, March 18 and 1°. The theme of the conference wil l he "The New Age Challenges Teaching Methods;" the topic of Professor Sayles' round table wil l he " Improving Methods through Te...

Preparing tomorrow’s teachers includes carefully developed curriculums, extensive class work and experiences that support student to learn apply content knowledge, theory pedagogical skills. A significant part of this is often clinical teaching experiences, which allow put into practice. Teacher preparation programs seek instill necessary skills dispositions be effective physical education teac...

Critics of test-based accountability warn that test preparation has a negative influence on teachers’ instruction due to a focus on procedural skills. Others advocate that the adoption of more rigorous assessments may be a way to incentivize more ambitious test-preparation instruction. Drawing on classroom observations and teacher surveys, we do find that testpreparation activities predict lowe...