Examines the role of emotions in teaching, noting the significance of teacher emotions to classroom management. The paper focuses on one teacher's experiences teaching a ninth-grade class at a local public high school, examining how his emotions affected his teaching decisions and behaviors and his classroom management techniques. (SM)

The current interest in reflective approaches to teacher education is examined, arguing that the move toward more reflective orientations toward teaching and teacher education must be viewed in institutional contexts and structural adjustments in Western capitalist systems. A more socially, culturally, and politically reflective approach to…

What has been said about what teachers do and know is integrated into a theoretical framework for the education and assessment of teachers, addressing (1) why a theoretical framework is necessary; (2) what a comprehensive framework might be; and (3) how the proposed framework might be used. (SLD)

Discusses links between National Board of Professional Teaching Standards certification and staff development. The assessment includes on-site teacher portfolios and assessment center examinations covering subject matter and teaching ability. Recommends that school districts provide staff development to help teachers acquire knowledge and skills…

Describes an environmental education workshop in which scientists, environmental educators, and elementary and secondary school teachers from the United States and Ecuador participate in workshops to raise the awareness of rural communities in Ecuador about conservation and environmental issues. Differences between U.S. and Ecuadorian schools are…

Examines how writing produced within school-based practitioner research functions in framing and guiding classroom practice and research processes, outlining a model from Saussurian linguistics and from hermeneutical theory. An analogy is drawn with practitioner research, which is characterized as the generation and analysis of a sequence of…

This paper reviews the research literature from the early 1980s to the present pertaining to instructional media utilization practices in secondary classrooms, including the challenge for educators in today's schools, the utilization of instructional media technology in the classroom, the impact of teacher training, and the effectiveness of…

In the last few years, a significant change in staff development has occurred, which has led to a surge toward collaboration between professionals in higher education and public education. Educators tend to have problems with this joint venture as it relates to role identification, because it requres that specific duties or responsibilities…

This report summarizes a study undertaken to determine and describe a "generic" set of microcomputer competencies that should be possessed by all professional secondary school personnel and a more "specialized" set of microcomputer competencies that are expected to be possessed by secondary school professionals who work intimately with…

There is no easy way to get from research on teaching to teaching practice; moreover, trying to make teaching practices directly out of research can have destructive effects for teaching. Research can be extremely beneficial when results are linked with teachers' goals, and when teachers are aware that a specific occasion is appropriate for…

Discusses numerous variables in and out of the classroom, beyond the control of the teacher, that have great impact on the learning process. Considers classroom interruption, changes in the family unit, heterogeneous grouping in classes, and the change in the level of involvement by parents with education--all of which make excellence in education…

This paper interrogates both curriculum theory and the limits and potentials of textual forms. A set of overlapping discourses (a trialogue) focuses on inquiring into the roles of obsession and repetition in creating deeply interpretive locations for understanding. (SM)

Presents arguments for and against the use of bibliotherapy in secondary education, and suggests strategies for appropriate use. For example, in a group setting, bibliotherapy can be applied in a non-confrontational, preventive manner by counselors, media specialists and teachers; however, when it is used as prescriptive measure, extreme caution…

A middle school teacher describes her experiences after being awarded a one-year grant to write curriculum, highlighting the process of scholarship. Her curriculum project concerned early adolescent females' self-efficacy, so she studied feminism in all its varieties. The paper describes her feelings about the beauty and importance of scholarship.…

Methods that have been linked to improvements in student performance are used by a parent/teacher educator to analyze the poor teaching methods and questionable class activities of a semihypothetical ninth-grade English teacher. The article argues that if these methods can move students up two percentiles, the methods used by this teacher can move…