Abstract

Education is a human endeavor through which nations seem to have demonstrated a common interest in the promise that education makes society better, and can improve the human condition. At the forefront of society-wide effort toward national development, are teachers. Through them, schools and universities--which constitute the most extended networks of human organization present in any country--are created to typically function as excel of society performing prophylactic and prognostic roles in wealth creation and improvement of the human condition. But in the modern society, some people experience limited access to education that others take for granted. Among the inhabitants that cannot take advantage of the yellow brick road to acquiring a good education, as well as attaining a satisfactory standard of living in America, typically belong to the lower socioeconomic status. Meanwhile, teachers constitute a foundation of untapped dynamism and insight to profoundly change schools and improve student outcomes. Therefore, in the 21st century, teacher preparation implies sufficiently equipping preservice teachers with distinctive capabilities to serve the most vulnerable students in K-12 schools to become empowered participants in national development.