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Download full textNational 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…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers
Direct linkChmelynski, Carol – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2004
To lure highly qualified teachers to low-performing schools, the Mobile County, Alabama, school board did what a small but growing number of districts are considering: pay teachers more money for working in what are considered less attractive jobs. As school districts are more pressured to raise achievement among all student groups, more are…
Descriptors: Incentives, Teacher Qualifications, Teaching Experience, Federal Legislation
Tausha Lynn Clay – ProQuest LLC, 2005
The purpose of this study was to determine if an association existed between student achievement scores and classroom practices used among third-grade teachers in Upper East Tennessee. The variables included classroom environment, instructional context, and social context, employing developmentally appropriate practices (DAP). Teacher…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Grade 3, Educational Practices, Academic Achievement
Dutton, Donnie; Moss, Gary – 1969
This study evaluated a one day Memphis State University workshop for adult basic education (ABE) personnel, and sought to determine relationships between certain participant characteristics and reactions to the workshop. Financed under Title 1, Higher Education Act of 1965, the workshop covered guidance and counseling, curriculum development,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Analysis of Variance, Educational Background
Office for Civil Rights (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1969
This report is a survey of attitudes on desegregation conducted by the Southeastern Regional Office for Civil Rights, Department of Health, Education and Welfare in the Spring of 1969. It was undertaken to help civil rights staff better understand the integration process. The staff interviewed 1230 persons involved in school desegregation in 13…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, After School Programs, Black Attitudes, Civil Rights
Kershaw, C.; And Others – 1994
A team of researchers from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville is in its tenth year of working with individual schools to improve the quality of life within educational communities. This paper reports on the current Quality of School Life (QSL) study conducted to assess teachers' perceived levels of satisfaction with the quality of their…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Demography, Educational Research, Elementary School Teachers
Judy Blevins – ProQuest LLC, 1996
The purpose of this study was to determine the knowledge level (general, etiology, assessment, treatment) of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD/ADD) of principles, regular education teachers, and special education teachers in the First Educational District in Northeast Tennessee. The study further the amount of instruction on ADHD/ADD…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Public School Teachers, Principals, Knowledge Level
Evertson, Carolyn M. – 1995
The Classroom Organization and Management Program (COMP) addresses a vital need for schools, faculties, and students. The program's purpose is to meet the needs of both beginning and experienced teachers for more professional development and inservice training in classroom behavior and instructional management. COMP promotes classroom management…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Class Activities, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques
Amershek, Kathleen; Barbour, Chandler – 1968
This is a collection of reports on innovative practices in student teaching programs. The label "innovative" is justified on the basis of the investigation's scope. Identification of innovative student teaching practices was accomplished by contacting chief state school officers, chairmen and members of state commissions on teacher…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Cross Cultural Training, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
Peer reviewedRosenholtz, Susan J.; Simpson, Carl – Sociology of Education, 1990
Examines 1,213 Tennessee elementary teachers' responses to 6 organizational indexes to determine effects of school organization and administrative support on teacher commitment. Finds novices needed organizational support for behavioral management and boundary tasks, midcareer teachers needed autonomy and empowerment, whereas veterans' commitment…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Cohort Analysis
Southeast Center for Teaching Quality, 2004
Since the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act or the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001, much has been said and written about the law by a variety of education observers, practitioners, and policymakers from both sides of the political aisle. With support from the Ford, Rockefeller, and Z. Smith Reynolds foundations,…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation
McAllister, Deborah A., Ed.; Deaver, Sharon R., Ed. – Online Submission, 2008
As a part of the teacher licensure program at the graduate level at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC), the M.Ed. Licensure candidate is required to complete an action research project during a 3-semester-hour course that coincides with the 9-semester-hour student teaching experience. This course, Education 590 Culminating…
Descriptors: Action Research, Research Projects, Student Projects, Student Teaching
