First Principles: Designing Pre-Service Teacher Education Programs

This First Principles: Designing Effective Pre-Service Teacher Education Programs Compendium provides an overview and guidance for designing and implementing pre-service education programs. The principles, steps, and indicators are primarily meant to guide program designs, including the development of requests for and subsequent review of proposals, the implementation of program activities, and the development of performance management plans, evaluations and research studies. The last section provides references for those who would like to learn more about issues and methods in pre-service education programming.