Twelve teachers and librarians/information specialists offer their opinions on how to increase cooperation between classroom teachers and library personnel. (RL)

Mainstreaming and declining budgets are causing many teachers concern about their workloads. In a survey of Arkansas secondary teachers, the following weighted factors were recommended for inclusion in a workload policy: number of preparations, student ability level, class type and size, course difficulty level, and administrative or cocurricular…

Discusses three issues relevant to adolescent heroines in high school theater productions: the need to consider the role model presented by the character being portrayed; the need to focus on the sociodramatic issues of the production; and the need for consciousness-raising among teachers. (JMF)

Postsecondary and elementary-secondary teaching have both similarities and differences. Rather than continuing a divisive, adversarial relationship, pre-K-12 teachers and postsecondary teacher educators should envision and enact a view of education as a continuum. (SK)

This analytical overview of writings on the African American military experience is designed for college and upper-level high school teachers and general readers. It excludes most contemporary accounts and focuses on works that concentrate on the African American experience, highlighting works for their quality and accessibility. (SLD)

Two functions of narrative common in educational discourse are coercive and emancipatory narratives. To account for the apparently contradictory purposes, researchers must take a longitudinal view and understand the contexts in which narratives arise. Research on teaching must make provisions for the multifunctionality of narrative. (SM)

Describes MICROsearch, a self-contained system developed at the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information Resources for searching selected portions of the ERIC database on a microcomputer, and recommends that library media specialists use the program to teach basic online searching skills to teachers who are planning to take summer courses. (BBM)

Presents video production techniques, tricks, tips, and phrases to help high school teachers and students become video literate. Highlights include six basic camera movements, three basic camera angles, and a list of projects and discussion ideas for production classes. (JMV)

Recommends that inservice teacher education challenge the intellectual development of teachers. Discusses the learning process of teachers, and profiles activities in specific elementary and secondary schools intended to benefit students' learning. Suggests that teachers should teach sound habits of mind with intellectual humility, expertise in…

Reprints an article originally published in 1931. Suggests that the high school of the future will elevate art, music, dramatics, mechanics,and health at least as high as it now (1930) holds Latin, algebra, and chronological history. Suggests that teachers will merge their interests and responsibilities with those of administrators, supervisors,…

In 1925, Williams Jennings Bryan, a former congressman from Nebraska and a former Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson, spent two agonizing weeks defending his religious faith that cost him his life a month after. Bryan was a prosecutor of high school teacher John Scopes, who had violated Tennessee state law by teaching the theory of evolution.…

A high school teacher has created a more effective method of responding to students' papers by using the tools that are available in common word-processing programs and widely available technology. Assessment has become a powerful tool for instruction and student self-reflection as the response of most of the students is positive towards…

In cultural historical activity theory, the entities that make a system are not conceived as independent but as aspects of mediated relations. Consequently, an individual, a tool, or a community cannot be theorized in an independent manner but must be understood in terms of the historically changing, mediated relations in which they are integral…

This paper discusses how preservice teacher education programs can be improved to better service teacher candidates. This paper examines a study of teachers from nine Ontario secondary schools regarding the impact of change on their work lives. The study involved 130 survey questionnaires and 45 structured interviews. This paper focuses on…

This paper deals with four issues: (1) the aging of the faculties of high schools in the northeastern United States; (2) frequently observed characteristics of teaching seen during site visits to secondary schools for the Department of Education's Secondary School Recognition Program; (3) elitism in high schools; and (4) observations on the status…