What is School-Community-Based Teacher Education and Why Should Administrators be Interested in It?

Overview & Synopsis

This monograph deals with the subject of school-community-based teacher education, and states that it is designed to broaden the future teacher's clinical experience and is oriented toward involving more concerned and knowledgeable groups in the community power structure. The monograph is written in the form of 18 questions with detailed answers, and some of the topics covered include (a) why such education is necessary and desirable, (b) judicial decisions and Equal Employment Opportunities Commission guidelines, (c) personnel licensing, (d) forms of school-community based teacher education programs and how to develop them, (e) cost of the programs, (f) how to gain support for the programs, (g) how to assess community-school teacher education centers, (h) governance, (i) recruitment and education of teachers and administrators, and (j) staffing of community-school teacher education centers. The catalog of examples discusses models for (a) governance, (b) financing, (c) structure, (d) process, and (e) staffing. The appendix lists the addresses of persons who provided the sample of programs used in this document. (RC)