College and university presidents can
play an integral role in improving teacher -
preparation programs by investing in them philosophically and asking their faculties to do the same, Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley told higher education
leaders last week.
These studies reported on
preparation programs that provided the opportunity to participants to perform as
leaders, whether in a role -
play in front of other
program participants (Nesbit et al., 2001), while working with classroom teachers in an actual teacher leadership position in a school or district (Howe & Stubbs, 2003), or with the support of a mentor in a teacher
leader training
program (Harris & Townsend, 2007).