Teachers We Need.

Overview & Synopsis

This issue, with introduction by Charles M. Galloway, contains eight articles on the needed directions and content of teacher education: "A Search for Relevancy" (through theories of education, liberal education, and college-school cooperation to prepare teachers as innovators in a multicultural world) by Don Davies; "Professional Education: The Discipline of the Act" (need for description of teaching methods; a new framework for graduate professional education) by Arthur W. Foshay; "The Need for a New Breed" (the disseminator's role in assuring application of research results) by Walter J. Mars; "The Long View of Teacher Education" (social and cultural effects on the present and on future expectations) by Donald P. Cottrell; "A Curriculum To Produce Career Teachers for the 1980's" (teachers to serve as instructional leaders and diagnosticians of pupil needs) by L. O. Andrews; "Redefining the Role of the Teacher" (new teacher behavior for the new technology) by Robert Bush; "Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers" (rationale and proposal for a common professional core) by George Denemark; "The Teacher Education We Need" (a variety of practical, competency-based programs with new content, new forms, and new institutional climate) by Kimball Wiles. (JS)