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Download full textBrown, Diane; Reumann-Moore, Rebecca; Hugh, Roseann; Christman, Jolley Bruce; Riffer, Morgan; du Plessis, Pierre; Maluk, Holly Plastaras – Research for Action, 2007
The Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative (PAHSCI) seeks to improve student achievement in high-need high schools across Pennsylvania by enhancing the teaching of literacy skills across subject areas. It is ambitious in its scope as a statewide initiative and distinctive in its direct focus on instruction as the pathway to improving…
Descriptors: High Schools, Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Academic Achievement
Direct linkMcLaughlin, Jacqueline – Science Teacher, 2006
In this article, the author discusses the CHANCE (Connecting Humans and Nature in the Costa Rican Environment) program, a coordinated effort between The Pennsylvania State University (PSU) and the Pennsylvania Department of Education that trains 9th- through 12th-grade teachers to be more like scientists and develop a unique, pedagogical tool for…
Descriptors: Scientists, High School Students, Teacher Improvement, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedStrauss, Robert P.; Bowes, Lori R.; Marks, Mindy S.; Plesko, Mark R. – Economics of Education Review, 2000
Examines Pennsylvania's teacher preparation and selection processes over the past decade, highlighting teacher test scores across colleges of education and in employing districts. The higher a district's teacher unemployment rate, the more likely it is to hire former students. Student achievement is lower in schools with greater proportions of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Scores, Teacher Competency Testing
Curtis, Samuel M. – 1974
The project was an effort to alleviate a recognized need of educationally disadvantaged students enrolled in vocational agriculture classes in Pennsylvania. This need extended to teacher preparation, instructional materials, and vocational guidance. Instructional materials in ornamental horticulture, agricultural mechanics, and agricultural…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educationally Disadvantaged
Quint, Janet C.; Akey, Theresa M.; Rappaport, Shelley; Willner, Cynthia J. – MDRC, 2007
The Instructional Leadership Study provides suggestive evidence that providing instruction-related professional development to school principals can improve teaching and learning in their schools. The study examines a theory of school change articulated by the Institute for Learning at the University of Pittsburgh. The IFL provides technical…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Strategic Planning, Teacher Effectiveness, Elementary Schools
HEILMAN, ARTHUR W. – 1965
AN INVESTIGATION WAS MADE TO GAUGE THE EFFECTS OF AN INTENSIVE, INSERVICE TRAINING PROGRAM ON TEACHERS' CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR AND READING ACHIEVEMENT OF PUPILS TAUGHT BY PARTICIPATING TEACHERS. A TOTAL OF 30 FIRST-GRADE TEACHERS VOLUNTEERED FOR PARTICIPATION. ONE-HALF OF THIS TOTAL WAS ASSIGNED TO AN EXPERIMENTAL GROUP, AND THE OTHER HALF TO A…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Inservice Teacher Education, Reading Achievement
What's the Buzz?, 1996
A project was undertaken to design an information dissemination newsletter to meet the professional development needs of Pennsylvania's adult basic and literacy education (ABLE) practitioners. It was decided that an 8- to 10-page-long newsletter would be produced for 5 months that included information/articles from as many sources as could be…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Demonstration Programs
National Council on Teacher Quality, 2011
For five years running, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) has tracked states' teacher policies, preparing a detailed and thorough compendium of teacher policy in the United States on topics related to teacher preparation, licensure, evaluation, career advancement, tenure, compensation, pensions and dismissal. The 2011 State Teacher…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers
Robertson, Elton – 1990
In 1984, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania passed the Information Technology Education Act, which created 14 Information Technology Education for the Commonwealth (ITEC) centers. The purpose of the ITEC centers was to assist teachers in using and improving their use of microcomputers in their own classrooms by training them in instructional uses of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Peer reviewedMaxim, George W. – Childhood Education, 2003
Uses the example of a fourth-grade class working to have the firefly declared as Pennsylvania's state insect to highlight the effectiveness of dynamic social studies in elementary school. Discusses how dynamic social studies maintains a balance between seriousness and fun by offering a blend of variety, active involvement, and excitement while…
Descriptors: Civics, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Goldsberry, Lee; And Others – 1984
The aims of this symposium are to examine and discuss critically the findings of a major survey of practices in instructional supervision. Data from over 1,000 teachers and their supervisors in central Pennsylvania were compiled, and findings are reported in four sections. The first section is an introduction focusing on the theoretical…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Improvement
Belzer, Alisa – 1998
The Pennsylvania Adult Literacy Practitioner Inquiry Network (PALPIN) was developed to improve the practice of adult literacy teachers, tutors, and program administrators throughout Pennsylvania. The project to develop PALPIN was initiated in 1995-1996. The primary objectives for the PALPIN project's third program year were as follows: adapt and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Delivery Systems, Information Networks
Grezlak, John H., Ed. – 1984
Two conferences were organized by the Education Committee of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Section of the American Chemical Society (SEPACS) with the assistance of Shippensburg University (SU) to examine the nature and depth of the growing trend of scientific and technological illiteracy in southeastern Pennsylvania and to propose and effect…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Conferences, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality
Hole, F. Marvin; Byrd-Bredbenner, Debra Carol – 1978
Five inservice workshops for coordinators and teachers of practical nursing were conducted to provide a coordinated approach to curriculum development and to the teaching of practical nursing throughout the state of Pennsylvania. In addition to providing up-to-date information on curriculum development, design, and revision, topics such as…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Coordinators, Curriculum Development
Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit 16, Lewisburg, PA. – 1974
The document is the first volume of the final report on an inservice training institute in career education; five teams of K-12 educators from three different school districts in one region of Pennsylvania in the three one-week sessions, which were held at four-week intervals. The goals of the institute were to improve the scope of the…
Descriptors: Career Education, Change Agents, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
