Transforming Teacher Education Through Partnerships Book

	Foreword
	Preface
Sect. 1	The power of partnerships	1
1-1	A model for collaboration to improve teachers for high-need schools	5
1-2	When worlds collide : partnerships among college of education and college of arts and sciences faculty	17
1-3	School-university partnership : a shared journey	32
1-4	Preparing preservice teachers to partner with parents and communities	44
1-5	Preparing quality bilingual/bicultural teachers in the 21st century : a PDS model for educational change and success	62
1-6	Perspectives on curricular change	76
Sect. 2	Collaborative partnerships	90
2-1	The process of developing school/university/parent and community partnerships	95
2-2	Community partners' involvement in teacher preparation : a collaborative partnership	105
2-3	Faculty collaboration to improve writing of early childhood education preservice teachers	114
2-4	Collaborative professional development : more than filling a day	123
2-5	Early childhood education in Tanzania and Nigeria : a prototype of similarities, differences and implications for international collaborative partnerships	135
Sect. 3	Meeting the needs of all students	149
3-1	A learning partnership for safe schools : training teachers to be social scientists	155
3-2	Using the social context of teaching and learning to meet students' socioemotional needs : a framework for preservice teachers	170
3-3	A cohort model for meeting the needs of all students	184
3-4	Preparing preservice educators to teach in inclusive settings	205
3-5	Teaching just enough for the city : preparing teachers to succeed with urban learners	216
Sect. 4	Technology partnerships in teacher education	233
4-1	Collaborative strategies for improving preservice students' skills in technology, science, and special education	237
4-2	Collaborative evaluation of the use of drama and technology to improve literacy in a school/university partnership program for family literacy	251
4-3	The Turtle Project : considerations for implementing education technology projects	269
4-4	The use of technology in teacher education : portfolio assessment	289
4-5	Teacher education : a model for managing the assessment process	307
Sect. 5	Partnerships that enhance field and clinical experiences	328
5-1	Southern Illinois University Carbondale-Mount Vernon schools' reflective teaching block	334
5-2	Preparing teachers for working in diverse settings : effects of early immersion in field experiences	342
5-3	Lab school and curriculum & instruction partnership : secondary preservice teachers' perceptions of field experience	356
5-4	Early clinical experiences for freshmen education majors	364
Sect. 6	Partnerships that strengthen experiences for new teachers	380
6-1	The extent and nature of beginning teacher induction programs in high-poverty Illinois schools	386
6-2	Cross-institutional support for new teachers : the role of evaluation	403
6-3	Using ethnographic practice to prepare culturally responsive first-year teachers	420
6-4	Partnership power : developing preservice and inservice modules on reaching and teaching diverse learners	434
	Bibliography	452