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Speck, Marsha; Knipe, Caroll O. – Corwin Press, 2005
To increase student achievement and prepare all students to meet standards, educators must be well prepared. Teachers who know their content and strategies can open a virtual toolbox and take out what they need to help all students become successful. This thoroughly revised and updated edition of "Why Can't We Get It Right?" explains how…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Information Sources, Fundamental Concepts, Standard Setting
Graves, Donald H. – 2001
This book offers insights on and techniques for dealing with emotional demands in the classroom, noting how highly effective teachers deal with such demands and how they gain help and support from their colleagues and administrators. Based on extensive interviews with educators and others nationwide, the book explains what gives them energy, how…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Coping, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Response
Donovan, Frances R. – 1938
In the 1930s and reprinted in 1974, approximately 85 percent of the teachers in U.S. public schools were women--"schoolma'ams." This book provides a portrait of women teachers of that era, as well as a comprehensive overview of their lives, their careers, the conditions under which they taught in rural and urban schools, and the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education

Lundberg, Ingvar; Linnakyla, Pirjo – 1993
Building on an international survey including nearly 10,500 teachers and 200,000 students in 32 countries, this booklet presents empirical data relevant to the controversial issue of how children should be taught to read. The booklet examines a broad spectrum of teaching conditions, teacher characteristics, and instructional practices and relates…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Freedman, Mervin; And Others – 1979
The importance of considering institutional educational goals, organizational functioning, and adult personality development in designing faculty development programs is addressed. After a brief historical sketch of faculty development and the situation of the faculty member today. ethnographic descriptions of two universities and a liberal arts…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Case Studies, College Environment, College Faculty
Brock, Barbara L.; Grady; Marilyn L. – Corwin Press, 2005
Imagine someone telling you that, within three years, new teachers would leave the profession for which they trained so hard. That is what is happening to 30% of today's promising new teachers who are not given the mentoring, direction, and professional development that is so desperately needed to keep them focused and enthusiastic. To handle this…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Mentors, Developmental Programs, Classroom Techniques
Nieto, Sonia – 2003
This book examines what can be learned from veteran teachers who not only continue to teach but also manage to remain enthusiastic about it despite deprivation and challenges. Nine chapters are: (1) "Teaching as Evolution" (e.g., lessons learned along the way and the promise of multicultural education); (2) "Teaching as…
Descriptors: Anger, Autobiographies, Cultural Differences, Democratic Values
Johnson, Dale D.; Johnson, Bonnie – 2002
This book connects the educational conditions created by high-stakes testing to the students and teachers who are influenced or victimized by the currents driving this movement. The authors left their positions as teacher-educators and taught grades 3 and 4 for 1 year as regular teachers in one of America's most impoverished schools. Redbud…
Descriptors: Accountability, Black Education, Disadvantaged Schools, Educational Environment
Moreo, Dominic W. – 1996
This book delineates the effects of the Great Depression upon the schools and explores how the supporters of public education responded to the retrenchment of school budgets. The introduction postulates that the public schools as a bureaucratic system in the best of times produced what it was capable of producing, which at times coincided with the…
Descriptors: Blacks, Budgets, Educational Change, Educational Finance
Forsyth, Patrick B., Ed.; Tallerico, Marilyn, Ed. – 1993
This volume offers nine chapters on focal issues in current urban education that are of a middle-range of abstraction and have long-term consequences for students. Individual chapters provide examples of possible interventions appropriate to the unique context of urban schools. The following chapters correspond to nine problems of practice, which…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Children, Context Effect, Decision Making
Developing Teachers: The Challenges of Lifelong Learning. Educational Change and Development Series.
Day, Christopher – 1999
This book examines the nature of teacher professionalism, the continuing professional development of teachers, and the contexts in which this occurs. Using a range of international research and development work, the book discusses how personal and professional contexts promote and inhibit improvement in teaching. It examines the effects of school…
Descriptors: Action Research, Administrator Role, College School Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education
Weiler, Kathleen – 1998
This book focuses on the lives and work of women teachers in two rural California counties between 1850 and 1950. It explores the social context of teaching and what teaching meant and provided to women teachers. Chapter 1 explores the shifts between 1840 and 1930 in representations of the woman teacher in the United States. Chapter 2 discusses…
Descriptors: Centralization, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Discrimination
Mildner, Telma – 1989
The Israel Ministry of Education and Culture (Jerusalem) has attempted to establish a feedback system to provide information about the functioning of the educational system in Israel. Feasibility of such a system and ways to ensure its effectiveness were studied through an assessment of the teaching of mathematics in grade 4. Data were collected…
Descriptors: Accountability, Achievement Tests, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Assessment
Dunham, Jack – 1984
Through the extensive use of teachers' reports, the many and varied stresses endured by teaching staff and their reactions to them are identified. In focusing on the dual problem of reducing pressures on teaching staff and strengthening their coping resources, this book calls attention to a series of issues within education. Chapters are devoted…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Coping, Elementary Secondary Education, Job Satisfaction
Clark, Shirley M., Ed.; Lewis, Darrell R., Ed. – 1985
Issues concerning faculty career vitality, including institutional policy options and demographic and external pressures, are addressed in 12 chapters. In the first chapter, Shirley M. Clark, Carol M. Boyer, and Mary Corcoran review theoretical and conceptual issues concerning institutional and faculty vitality. The following chapters and authors…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Career Change, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty