Issues in Teacher Education
Fall 2014
Editors’ Introduction
Susanne SooHoo, Joel Colbert, & Janae Dimick
Personality and Preservice Teachers:
Does It Change, Does It Matter?
Peter D. Wiens & Sean Ruday
“You Would Think I Could Pull It off Differently”:
A Teacher Educator Returns to Classroom Teaching
Jason K. Ritter
Educators’ Perceptions and Knowledge
of the Commnon Core State Standards
Louis S. Nadelson, Heidi Pluska, Scott Moorcroft,
Annie Jeffrey, & Susan Woodard
Collaborative Video Inquiry as Teacher Educator
Professional Development
Laura Baecher & Shiao-Chuan Kung
Teacher and Policy Alignment:
A Phenomenological Study Highlighting
Title I High School Teachers’
Professional Development Experiences
LaNysha T. Adams
Teaching, Learning, and Leading
with Schools and Communities:
One Urban University Re-Envisions
Teacher Preparation for the Next Generation
Ann Marie Ryan, David Ensminger, Amy J. Heineke,
Adam S. Kennedy, David P. Prasse, & Lara K. Smetana
Changing Teacher Preparation
for California’s Changing Secondary Schools
Nancy Farnan, Penni Hudis, & Arlene LaPlante
Promising Practices
(De)constructing Student Engagement
for Pre-0Serviuce Teacher Learning
Jennifer G. Beasley, Conra D. Gist, & Marcia B. Imbeau
Challenging Teacher Bias:
Implementing a Community Learning Fair
Karen Elizabeth Lafferty & Valerie Ooka Pang
Book Reviews
Living Faithfully:
The Transformation of Washington School
by Frances Schoonmaker
Reviewed by Kathryn Ado
Fire in the Ashes:
Twenty-Five Years among the Poorest Childen in America
by Jonathan Kozol
Reviewed by AnnMarie Alberton Gunn