There is a serious shortage of industrial arts teachers. An intense recruitment effort must be initiated by all industrial arts professionals. Suggestions are offered as to how the following groups can aid recruiting efforts: industrial arts teachers in grades 7-12, industrial arts teacher educators, and industrial arts professional groups. (CT)

Calls for more caring public school teachers with expertise in their fields, increased parent involvement, and stronger emphasis on moral and ethical responsibilities. (DD)

Argues that pension systems have indentured educators by trapping them in jobs they do not want because of vesting requirements and that teachers' unions support these systems for selfish interests. The author offers a pension reform system ("defined-contribution") as a solution. (GR)

Suggests actions for technology teachers, supervisors, teacher educators, and professional associations to demonstrate how technology education prepares students for a competitive world. (SK)

Describes a high school publications advisor's month-long internship at the Louisville "Courier-Journal" and how the experience shed light on her work as an advisor. (SR)

Describes seminars in which researchers reported their findings to the high school teachers whose classes they studied. Interprets the experience from three orientations: different school cultures, the research team's role, and teacher power. (SK)

Examines how two teachers work through a system of collaboration and cooperation, detailing the real-life snags and complications in breaking from the tradition of individualistic approaches to learning. (TB)

In this article, the author relates some of the memorable points in his career as a teacher. He also recounts the specific events that led him to choose the teaching path. Now that he is in the verge of retirement, he shares some of the valuable lessons he had learned in his teaching career for other teachers.

The secondary school teachers can make a difference even if they do not have formal training in teaching reading in the content areas. Teachers can support improved reading comprehension by introducing model approaches that encourage interaction with text, which helps students gain insight into their own reading strategies and also increase their…

This paper is set in the context where there is a policy emphasis on teacher learning and development in a number of countries as a means towards school improvement. It reports on a longitudinal research project about the workplace learning of English secondary school teachers, carried out between 2000 and 2003. This was part of a Teaching and…

In the Winter 2005 issue of "educational HORIZONS," Charles Glenn wrote that schools designed in a perfect system of educational diversity and choice could nonetheless end up as "uninspired carbon copies produced by educators without the foggiest idea of how to do anything differently." Most school reform tries to avoid that fate with various…

This paper discusses the needs of high school students and teachers that writers and publishers of psychology materials and textbooks should keep in mind. To take students' needs into consideration, publishers should stress practical application and relevance of subject matter, provide opportunities for interaction with peers, aim reading…

Describes one method of peer review used by a secondary school department head when asked to evaluate teachers in her department. Visits to individual classrooms included observation and notetaking, a narrative response to each teacher, and a final conference during which each teacher could respond to the narrative. ( NKA)

A foreign language teacher who spent a month studying and traveling in China talks about the emotional effect of seeing the Great Wall and her experience in climbing a section. (RM)

Reviews patterns of teacher recruitment, selection, and retention during 1950-70 that are essential to understanding the shape of the present teaching corps and its future characteristics over the next decade. (MP)