Volume 2, Number 1: From the Editor: Renewal, Refreshment and Reflection

Welcome to the Summer 2006 issue of the ICCTE Journal. In May of 2006, a little over one month ago, about 90 teacher educators and others gathered at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia for the CCTE conference. It was a wonderful time of renewal and refreshment, as well as a time to be challenged and encouraged in our work as educators. I would like to extend my thanks and appreciation to our colleagues at Regent University who worked diligently to plan for and deliver a wonderful conference. The 2008 conference will be hosted by Gordon College, in the Boston area

Letter from the Editor

In this issue, Tatiana Cevallos describes her journey from Ecuador to the United States and her journey of faith development and how those journeys influence her work as a teacher educator at a Christian Institution of Higher Education (IHE). Geoff Beech explores the intersection of Christian belief with secular constructs and philosophies, examining how Christian teacher educators navigate these intersections with confidence and grace. Marion Shields and David Bolton report the findings of a five-year study, revealing the attitudes of teacher candidates at an Australian Christian IHE toward students with disabilities. In addition to these three pieces, our editorial team asked two authors of past essays that have been well received by our readership over the years to provide an update to their original essays. Nyaradzo Mvududu examines the command of Jesus that we love others and what the implications are for working with a culturally diverse student population. David Anderson examines the notion of servant leadership from a Christian point of view

Volume 2, Number 2: From the Editor: Greetings on the New Year!

We are pleased to publish this issue of the Journal. Several key events have occurred for the ICCTE Journal over the last few months. At about the same time that our summer issue was released, our colleagues at Regent University hosted us at Virginia Beach for our biennial conference. At a business meeting at that conference, a steering committee was appointed with the task of strengthening ICCTE. That committee has been functioning, and it is our hope that a progress report will be published in next summer’s issue of the Journal. The Journal also launched a series of live webcasts last fall and will host a live presentation to community members through internet conferencing technology on an occasional basis throughout the academic year. Finally, our team of reviewers and editors has been at work in helping to select articles for publication in this and upcoming issues of the Journal

ICCTE 2010 Conference Review

This past May, the Ninth Biennial Conference of the ICCTE took place at LeTourneau University in Longview Texas. About 75 faculty members from a number of colleges and universities gathered to share their research, to fellowship together and to enjoy the hospitality of colleagues. Every other year our group gathers. In the spring of 2012, we will gather at Azusa Pacific University in the Los Angeles area. I am grateful to colleagues who have worked diligently for about 20 years to provide opportunity for Christian professors of education and in related fields to gather for the purpose of sharing our work and lives with one another

Letter from the Editor

Ten years ago this autumn, I sat in an office on the campus of George Fox University with a small group of colleagues who had accepted the responsibility for beginning a scholarly journal that would provide a forum for teacher educators at CCCU and like institutions. We were responding to a call to support the efforts of scholars and practitioners who had been exploring the influence and implications of their Christian faith and worldview on their professional work as educators. We did this by providing a forum for scholars to share their ideas and served practitioners by making ideas, programs, and experience available to them

From the Editor: Volume 3, Issue 1

Colleagues, this issue marks the beginning of the third year of publication for the ICCTE Journal. I am pleased to inform you that in this issue we begin two new features. David Robinson, consulting editor to the Journal, provides a review of the book, Religion, Education, and Academic Success by William Jeynes. Our hope is that this review will be the first of many, as we desire to make this a regular feature of the Journal. If you have interest in submitting a review for an upcoming issue, let us know. We seek reviews of books important to Christians involved with teacher education and related fields. Our second new feature, equally exciting in my view, is a section of student submissions. Paul Flores from Azusa Pacific University and I began a conversation in May of 2006 which has resulted in four student submissions. Thank you, Paul for working with your student colleagues in developing papers worthy of publication here. Beginning in the January 2008 issue, each issue of the Journal will feature several student submissions. Student work will be reviewed using processes similar to those employed for our scholarly manuscripts. The Journal seeks student submissions that demonstrate thinking about what it means to be a Christian and an educator. Action research, classroom practice and essays which present issues of importance to Christians involved with education are welcome. The student section is reserved for pre-service educators. However, if you are working with professional educators who are also your graduate students, I encourage you to present the opportunity to them to submit a manuscript for review, as well. You might even consider a collaborative effort

Volume 3, Number 2: Letter from the Editor

This current issue is one that brings with it anticipation. We look forward with anticipation to our biennial conference at the end of May, this year hosted by our colleagues at Gordon College, near Boston. If you have not yet registered it is not too late, and we would love to see you there. I hope that you have been looking forward to the release of this Winter, 2008 issue of the ICCTE Journal. While we generally release the Winter issue in the winter (end of January), your editor has been tardy and for that I wish to extend my apologies to our readers, reviewers and authors. I hope that you will find, however that the wait was worth it, as we have four worthwhile articles and a guest editorial now ready for you

Volume 1, Number 1: From the Editor

Colleagues, I am pleased that our team of authors, reviewers and editors have worked hard at getting this first issue of our journal into publication. It was just over a year ago that about 90 of us gathered at George Fox University in Newberg Oregon for the last CCTE conference. At our closing plenary session, there was a strong sense that we wanted to further the work that we have done together by building connections between conferences. This first issue of the ICCTE Journal is the result of a journey of exploration that began over ten years ago, and hopefully will allow Christians who are involved with teacher education and related fields to build their networks, share their insights, research findings and encouragement with one another

Professional Development Policies and Practices in Schools Affiliated with the Association of Christian Schools International

This is a report of survey research conducted among administrators of schools belonging to the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) regarding their professional development policies and practices. Schools from five states in the northwest region of the United States were included in the study. Three categories of policies and practices were identified: supporting individual growth, supporting group growth and those supporting both. We offer recommendations both for professional practice and further research