Urban Teacher Education part of the Education Reform Network

Learning Environment

• A Cognitive Apprenticeship for Disadvantaged Students
  The thesis in this paper by Allan Collins, Jan Hawkins, and Sharon Carver is that the changing nature of work in society provides a potential meeting ground where education for the advantaged and disadvantaged can come together in a curriculum where the educational tasks reflect the future nature of work in society.
• Getting in Trouble: The Meaning of School for "Problem" Students
  Three students attending an alternative school were selected because they had been labeled by their previous school and teachers as "problem students." A series of interviews was completed with each individual with the purpose of exploring the meaning of school for each. Each participant indicated an acceptance of the notion that education is important, but each also felt negatively about school.
• Making the Grade in High School: Success for African-American Urban Males
  Prince George's County Public Schools in Maryland, profiles an ancillary program which address the needs of underachieving freshman males.
• On-The-Job Urban School Teacher Preparation Program
  A partnership program between the California State University, Northridge and the Los Angeles Unified School District to address the critical shortage of fully certified special education teachers and the need for alternative preparation programs to prepare on-the-job teachers. The program was designed to develop teacher competencies specific to serving urban students with special needs.
• Preventing and Countering School-Based Harassment
  Preventing and Countering School-Based Harassment is the result of two conferences on racial harassment and numerous training of trainer administrator workshops. This guide addresses the more comprehensive issue of school-based harassment by capturing similarities in cause of, type of, and remedy for all forms of harassment.
• Project FUSE (Field-based University and School Education)
  A program developed by Florida International University and implemented in the Dade County Public Schools to prepare teachers for urban classrooms.
• Project Site Support
  Since 1999, Project SITE SUPPORT (PSS) has made unmatched contributions to the Baltimore City Public School System by providing hundreds of highly qualified teachers who have been specially trained to meet the diverse learning needs of students in this challenging urban environment.
• School and Preservice Program Quality Survey
  This is a FREE online survey that you can use to assess school and preservice program "quality of life in the workplace." It was developed by the National Institute for Community Innovations based on work from Hawaii.
• Social Learning Theory and the Influence of Male Role Models on African American Children in PROJECT 2000
  This study is an assessment of observational learning commonly known as social learning theory of a group of 55 African American students who are participants in a mentoring program known as PROJECT 2000. From first through sixth grades male role models, who were largely African American, were in the classroom as teacher assistants.
• The Urban Impact Project - Curriculum Redesign
  The Urban Impact Project's first goal is to restructure university coursework and university/school partnerships to better equip preservice teachers with the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to succeed with urban student populations, utilizing technology enhancements where appropriate. The Curriculum Redesign teams strive to reach this goal in three areas: science, reading, and math education.