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Pumpian, Ian, Ed.; Fisher, Douglas, Ed.; Wachowiak, Susan, Ed. – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bks), 2006
School in the Park is an innovative museum-based educational effort to engage students in their community during the school day. Since 1999 several hundred students have been educated each year in museums and the zoo in San Diego. This is more than a field trip, it is changing the way that education is provided. Challenging the Classroom Standard…
Descriptors: Recreational Facilities, Learning Experience, Social Studies, Oral Language
Woods, Peter – 1995
This book is based on research focusing on "creative teaching" in the British National Curriculum. The aim has been to test and fill out the concept of creative teaching in a wider range of schools and with teachers working in markedly different circumstances than before the 1988 Education Reform Act, which established a National…
Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Classroom Environment, Creative Teaching, Educational Research
Lieberman, Ann; Miller, Lynne – 1984
In the first chapter of this book, which deals with the world and work of teachers, themes are explored that capture the essential "dailiness" of working in schools, and a general description is given of what it is like to be a teacher. The cyclical rhythms and patterns of the school year are considered, as are the formal and informal…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development, Inservice Teacher Education
Kaufman, Polly Welts – 1984
This book presents letters, a personal narrative, and a diary relating the experiences of nine women teachers who traveled from the East to teach on western frontiers before the Civil War. During 1846-56, the National Popular Education Board recruited 600 experienced teachers from New England and New York State; trained them in Hartford,…
Descriptors: Diaries, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Collinson, Vivienne – 1994
Research indicates that exemplary teachers share various characteristics, including a desire for continuous renewal. This book reports on a study to investigate exemplary teachers' personal and professional renewal throughout their career and selected factors that have enabled and/or constrained their renewal. The study involved six participants;…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
Higgins, Andrew H. – 1993
In Australia, many teachers begin their careers in rural schools, a posting for which they are often ill-prepared. This book addresses the concerns of beginning teachers or other teachers about to take up rural appointments. The first chapter examines the context of rural schools, differentiates between "rural education" (education…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Geographic Isolation
Tompkins, Susie Powers – 1992
This book describes the experience of a young and inexperienced teacher during 1926 in rural Marengo County, Alabama. Susie Powers Tompkins accepted her first teaching assignment to earn money to continue college after her freshman year at Alabama College. However, for Tompkins the rewards of teaching went far beyond just earning money. She found…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Beginning Teachers, Educational History, Elementary Education
OECD Publishing (NJ3), 2010
"Highlights from Education at a Glance 2010" is a companion publication to the OECD's flagship compendium of education statistics, Education at a Glance. It provides easily accessible data on key topics in education today, including: education levels and student numbers, economic and social benefits of education, education spending, the school…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education, Educational Indicators, Foreign Countries
Hatch, Thomas – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2005
Teachers are the "lone rangers" of education. They are sequestered in their classrooms, unable to see what their colleagues are doing. All too often, good teachers have few, if any, opportunities to share their teaching techniques with others in their profession. Based on the development of the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Teaching Methods, Collegiality, Teacher Effectiveness
Sears, James T.; And Others – 1994
This book describes outcomes of a special teacher-preparation program at "Central College," which recruited high-ability students. Data were derived from individual and group interviews, analysis of student journals, observation, administration of standardized instruments, and videotapes of teaching performances. Following the foreword and…
Descriptors: Career Development, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Kaplan, Leonard, Ed.; Edelfelt, Roy A., Ed. – 1996
This collection of conference papers addresses such issues as: the changes in policy, practice, and research necessary to ensure that teachers meet the needs of all students; and the partnerships and strategies needed to acquire and use the resources that will effect these changes. The ten chapters of the book are: (1) "The Courage to…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education

Gulliford, Andrew – 1996
As late as 1913, half of U.S. schoolchildren were enrolled in the country's 212,000 one-room schools--the heart of American education. Although only about 428 of these schools remain in use as of 1994, the country school continues to be a powerful cultural symbol. The first section of this book examines country schools' educational and cultural…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Architecture, Educational Environment, Educational History
Hargreaves, Andy, Ed.; Fullan, Michael G., Ed. – 1992
The 12 chapters in this book interpret teacher development in relation to self-development, teacher reflection, teacher biographies, cultures of teaching, teacher careers, teachers' work, gender identity, and classroom practice. The collection begins with an introductory chapter (Andy Hargreaves and Michael G. Fullan) and continues with 11…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development
Lieberman, Ann; Miller, Lynne – 1992
Originally published in 1984, this book has been re-issued with a new and timely introduction and an index. Its six chapters provide a framework for viewing schools and teachers' roles within those schools and serve as a springboard for discussion about how to restructure schools and in what direction. Chapter 1, "The Social Realities of…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Change, Educational Practices, Elementary School Teachers
Brown, William R. – 1982
The internal politics of colleges and the influence of a current emphasis on efficiency on the traditional independence of the academician are analyzed. It is suggested that the academician does not work in the same differentiated, and therefore interdependent, way as someone in industry or a bureaucracy. Academic activity is segmented, which…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Collective Bargaining, College Administration, College Faculty