1. Accountability in Minority Teacher Training: The University of Georgia Indian Teacher Training Program.
- Author
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Richburg, James R. and Rice, M. J.
- Abstract
This paper describes the conceptualization and operation of a modular organized-accountability teacher training program for fourteen American Indian teacher-trainees. Indian Teacher Training Program (ITTP) graduates will be prepared to teach secondary social studies in Indian schools as well as other schools. Hopefully, these teachers will be able to utilize the local communities as a data source for social studies instruction. The program is characterized by careful specification of learning outcomes emphasizing both subject matter and teaching strategy competencies, intensive internship supervision, and, accountability for the academic program, the professional training, and the internship to the sponsoring agency. Special problems dealt with include teacher trainee performance, operationalization of the training program, and program support. Implications of this program for other teacher programs call for more intensive support and supervision of teacher trainees, a careful specification of objectives, and provisions for the application of skills learned in the training program. A major implication is that social studies educators can develop and implement accountability models. The ITTP has provided an opportunity for trainees and staff to engage in a meaningful program in bi-cultural education. (Author/SJM)
- Published
- 1972