Innovative Undergraduate Teacher Education Programs.

Overview & Synopsis

This document contains brief descriptions of 12 experimental and/or innovative undergraduate teacher education programs currently underway in the College of Education, Ohio State University. Programs are 1) Urban Teacher Education (14-credit-hour practicum); 2) English Education Inner-City Program (2-year practicum); 3) Industrial Arts Curriculum Project (3-year development and evaluation of a 2-year sequence in industrial technology for Grades 7-10); 4) Microteaching for Foreign Language Teachers (an experimental study using video-taped lesson sequences); 5) Microteaching in the Social Studies Methods Course (implemented in several Columbus area high schools); 6) Middle Elementary Teaching Team (METT) (2-year practicum for 3- or 4-member teams in grades 4-6); 7) New Careers in Early Childhood Education (2-year training of disadvantaged in work-study day care center program); 8) New Dimensions Program (2-year accelerated program to train ghetto high school dropouts as educational technologist aides); 9) Education Professions Development Act: Trade and Industrial Education (2-year inservice program leading to professional certificate); 10) Research and Development Program (30-hour program to train researchers); 11) Science and Mathematics Teacher Education Project (2-year program focusing on process approach); 12) Social Studies Education Program Abroad (15-credit program including seven weeks travel and study abroad). (JS)