Early career educators (ECE) report feeling under-prepared to teach a classroom of diverse
learners. In turn, students experience negative academic and social outcomes across their …

As national populations grow more diverse, the need for preservice programs to prepare
teachers with knowledge, skills and dispositions to cater for this diversity in ways that …

Background/Context Educating pre-service teachers to develop multicultural awareness,
knowledge, and skills for teaching diverse students is a major responsibility of teacher …

Data gathered from 142 public university elementary and secondary teacher preparation
programs across the United States (representing the preparation of approximately 23,000 …

The diversity of student populations globally is increasing more rapidly than the diversity of
the teaching workforce. Concerns are that beginning teachers are ill-prepared to meet the …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to assess the diversity-related professional
development needs of pre-service teachers in our college. According to a report released in …

Despite the growing diversity in school polulation, many teacher educators fail incorporating
diversity-related content into the courses they teach. As a result, numerous preservice …

Each day teachers walk into classrooms filled with students who bring diverse sociocultural
experiences and different challenges to the tasks of teaching and learning. Teachers also …

While student populations grow more diverse, the preservice teacher population is
becoming more homogeneous, primarily White and middle-class. One challenge for teacher …

Helping prospective teachers develop the beliefs, knowledge, skills, attitudes, and practices
necessary to meet the needs of diverse learners in the US is critical given that the teaching …