Preparing a Nation s Teachers. Models for English and Foreign Language Programs MLA Teacher Education Project. In this book, teams made up of foreign language or English faculty and local schoolteachers describe teacher education on their campus. The guiding theme is that inter-unit collaboration plays an important role in producing excellent teachers.
Most contributors acknowledge the impediments to collaboration in American universities.
The department has developed a list of learning goals for English education majors and clearly considers them an important part of its constituency. They are seeking to replace the university writing exam with authentic assessment. Emphasizing that the state board leaves it to institutions to translate its teacher education directives into credit hours. Courses in the English major itself are the most mysterious and incoherent of all. The department offers 60 courses in literature, with manifold purposes and methodologies.