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Solis, Federico; Kupczynski, Lori; Mundy, Marie-Anne – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2011
Literature lacks documentation on the leadership characteristics of public community college faculty. As higher education institutions begin to prepare for what appears to be a current leadership retirement wave, it is important for community colleges to begin searching for replacements. The research was conducted to explore self-perceived…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Presidents, Retirement, Employment Patterns
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Vannest, Kimberly J.; Hagan-Burke, Shanna – Remedial and Special Education, 2010
How special education teachers spend their time is largely unknown. Yet conceptually, "time" is one of the most tangible and salient variables of the effective instruction literature, Carroll's model of school learning and many economic models of performance measures. This currently unknown use of teacher time has clear and important…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Disabilities, Special Education Teachers, Special Education
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Chandler, Gabrielle; Mizener, Charlotte P. – Texas Music Education Research, 2011
The purpose of this study was to consider characteristics of elementary general music teachers and their views of factors influencing students to take part in secondary music programs, including their own influence and characteristics of their music programs. The following research questions concerning selected characteristics of elementary…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Music Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Secondary Education
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Carman, Carol A. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2011
This article is a mixed-methods exploration of the levels of stereotypic views about gifted individuals held by current and future educators. Because educators are often asked to provide recommendations for participation in gifted programs, it is important to determine whether those recommendations are based, in part, on stereotypic thinking.…
Descriptors: Gifted, Programs, Selection, Minority Group Students
Tresslar, Christopher Adrian – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The focus of this study was to examine the relationship between principal ethnicity and other chosen demographics (community type of the school, average years of teacher experience, and percent of students qualifying as economically disadvantaged) and student achievement as measured by the Texas Education Agency's (TEA's) accountability rating…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, High Schools, Ethnicity, Personnel Selection
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Piccolo, Diana L.; Capraro, Mary Margaret; Capraro, Robert M. – Teacher Educator, 2010
In this study, eleven K-8 mathematics urban interns' perceptions of their mentoring support systems and factors that influenced their ability to teach mathematics were examined. Semi-structured interviews revealed that district and grade-level campus mentors provided the greatest amount of mathematics instruction and pedagogically based support to…
Descriptors: Mentors, Interviews, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction
Moreland, Amy Laphelia – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this concurrent, mixed-methods study was to examine the professional empowerment qualities of mid-career (years 4-8), science teachers. I used the construct of professional empowerment as the theoretical frame to explore K-12 mid-career science teachers' career trajectories and consider how they can be supported professionally and…
Descriptors: Teacher Empowerment, Elementary Secondary Education, Science Teachers, Teaching Experience
Guerra, Norma S.; Flores, Belinda Bustos; Claeys, Lorena – New Horizons in Education, 2009
Background: A federally-funded program at the University of Texas at San Antonio adopted a holistic problem solving mentoring approach for novice teachers participating in an accelerated teacher certification program. Aims/focus of discussion: To investigate a novice teacher's problem-solving activity through self-expression of challenges and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Mentors, Self Efficacy, Holistic Approach
Jacobs, Karen – ProQuest LLC, 2011
To address the competition for students, the demand for increasing student enrollments and the pressure for student satisfaction, teaching effectiveness has become an increasingly common discussion on university campuses. The competition for students among universities requires a new approach to teaching. As university campuses continue to compete…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Competition, Teaching Methods, Teaching Experience
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Tejeda-Delgado, Maria Del Carmen – International Journal of Special Education, 2009
Teacher efficacy and teacher tolerance, along with teacher gender, were examined for their relationship with the number of students teachers referred to special education. In a sample of 167 elementary school teachers from an urban school district in the State of Texas, no statistically significant relationships were yielded between teacher…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Teacher Effectiveness, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
West, Dorthery Barron – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The achievement gap between African American and White students continues to be an issue of great concern for educators. The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of teacher characteristics on African American student math achievement: More specifically, the study examined years of teaching experience, campus teacher turnover, and the…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Mathematics Achievement, African American Students, White Students
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Deborah C. Simmons; Michael D. Coyne; Shanna Hagan-Burke; Oi-man Kwok; Leslie Simmons; Caitlin Johnson; Yuanyuan Zou; Aaron B. Taylor; Athena Lentini McAlenney; Maureen Ruby; Yvel C. Crevecoeur – Exceptional Children, 2011
This study compared the effects of 2 supplemental interventions on the beginning reading performance of kindergarteners identified as at risk of reading difficulty. Students (N = 206) were assigned randomly at the classroom level either to an explicit/systematic commercial program or to a school-designed practice intervention taught 30 min per day…
Descriptors: Spelling, Intervention, Beginning Reading, Effect Size
Porter-Johnson, Latricia Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The study was designed to collect and document both quantitative and qualitative data based on instructional services provided to students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The study examined the types of professional development and training provided to teachers of students with ASD and gathered the perspectives of local education agency…
Descriptors: Autism, School Districts, Professional Development, Case Studies
Zamarripa, Linda – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Mastering mathematics has become more important than ever before in the United States. Students with a strong background in mathematics have an advantage over those students who struggle, when competing for jobs. In the job market, workers who have a strong mathematics and science background are more likely to be employed and earn more than those…
Descriptors: High Schools, Mathematics Achievement, Teaching Experience, Secondary School Mathematics
Roberts, T. Grady; Greiman, Bradley C.; Murphy, T. H.; Ricketts, John C.; Harlin, Julie F.; Briers, Gary E. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2009
Over the course of the student teaching experience, a student teacher's intention to teach can increase, decrease, or remain the same. The purpose of this study was to explore differences in student teachers that were representative of each category. Teaching intention of 103 student teachers at four universities in 2005-2006 exhibited little…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Student Teachers, Career Choice, Intention
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