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

by Victor M. Rentel and Allan Dittmer

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761815147
• ISBN13: 9780761815143
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 240 Pages