Challenges the assumption that colleges and universities have special needs that the entire academic community must serve and asserts that collaborative experience corrects this assumption. Suggests an alliance between elementary, high school, community college, and university teachers to discover the full range of issues and the resources to deal…

This article looks at current research concerning how students best learn the discipline of history, commentaries both in favor of and against standardized testing, and basic philosophical beliefs about the discipline. It explains methods of how to incorporate differentiated lessons and performance based assessments to NCLB standards and…

While educators have always talked about active citizenship and critical thought, classroom practices have emphasized passive acquisition and character development. Teachers' philosophical assumptions that enable them to train future citizens to become passive spectators are discussed. (Author/RM)

Urban secondary school teachers feel the greatest difficulties facing them in the instructional setting are caused by administrative inefficiency and classroom management problems, according to the study results reported here. Luckily, the major concerns identified can be directly addressed by administrator action. (PGD)

The public school system is discussed by a former New York City public school teacher. Smaller classes with more intensive remediation and teaching the basics--reading, writing, and math--are seen as essential. The concept of mini- and alternative schools for students who cannot cope with traditional methods is defended. (MLW)

Drawing on hypotheses inferred from survey findings concerning principals' attitudes toward community involvement in the schools, the author suggests using principals' support of teacher autonomy and principals' encouragement of community involvement as the two dimensions of a model of school-community relations. (PGD)

Topics are considered which would help unite subject matter specialists and educators and serve as a basis for innovative teacher education curriculum. They include: recognizing fallibility of subject matter, relating methods and processes of learning with knowledge content, and realizing that social values and goals are reflected in the way…

Offers a plan whereby teachers write parents end-of-school letters about students who were excellent, who had made good classroom contributions, or who had made academic turnarounds. Considers this plan an effective means of improving parent-teacher relationships. (RL)

According to new projections, demand for elementary school teachers will increase in the 1980s while that for secondary school teachers will fall. (JOW)

Being a principal means having ultimate responsibility for making an effective team out of all teachers and staff members. Gives suggestions for encouraging cooperation through inservice projects and public relations efforts. (JOW)

Secondary trade and industrial teachers have traditionally been prepared through alternative teacher education emphasizing competence in subject matter. Standards are needed to improve how content is taught, and they can renew and revitalize trade and industrial teacher preparation and certification programs. (SK)

Presents a middle school teacher's observations concerning young adolescents (e.g., inconsistency is consistent, identification with others affords continuity, and they see others seeing them and seek ways to expend energy). Offers guidelines for promoting adolescents' moral growth (e.g., provide parent education and promote thoughtful critique of…

A former National Teacher of the Year describes his year as ambassador for the profession. He believes most people cannot do what teachers do daily--walk into a classroom and motivate, engage, and teach young people. Society must learn to respect the teaching profession; educators must advance its cause. (MLH)

Beginning teachers are often given teaching assignments that would challenge even the most skillful veteran teachers. Such assignments can take several forms: teaching in a subject area for which the teacher is not certified; having too many class preparations; "floating" from classroom to classroom; working with low-ability, unmotivated, or…

Hong Kong styles itself as "the city that never sleeps", "the ever changing city". The dynamism and pace of change in teacher education, however, has to be seen as laggardly in comparison. This is not to say there has been no experiment but changes have been piecemeal and "add-ons". Teacher education in Hong Kong has…