Teacher Educators Told To 'Do More' With Less Help, New Survey Finds

By Ann Bradley

SAN ANTONIO--Administrators and faculty members engaged in teacher education believe they are being told to "do more,'' but with fewer resources and little say about what should be done to improve their programs, according to preliminary findings from a survey released here.

The study, the sixth in a series conducted for the Research About Teacher Education, or RATE, project, was presented late last month at the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. It examines efforts over the past five years to revitalize teacher-training programs in 90 randomly selected institutions.

Questionnaires were distributed to institutional representatives, administrators, and faculty members in teacher-education programs in three types of institutions: smaller schools that grant only bachelor's degrees, medium-size schools that confer master's or sixth-year degrees, and large research institutions...