Presents a conceptual model of the teacher socialization process. Reviews empirical research on the process of teacher socialization of elementary and secondary school teachers throughout the preservice and inservice phases. Offers a conceptualization of the teacher socialization process from a communication perspective. (SR)

Argues that middle and high school educators (as individuals and via their professional organizations) must create opportunities to influence decisions about the contents of high school exit tests, remembering that they have allies in parents and higher education officials. (SR)

This article is geared toward high school biology teachers. The author discusses his own personal experiences of being a biology teacher. The author discusses Intelligent Design (ID) and how it adds interesting facet to discussions of the cultural context in which the science of evolution continues to develop.

Offers guidelines for the development of a teacher-advisor plan in the junior high/middle school. Includes suggestions on basic design, advisee assignments, teacher-advisor responsibility, information sharing, parent-pupil-teacher conferences, and in-service training for advisors. Presents a checklist to help the advisor prepare for conferences…

Offers tongue-in-cheek rules for being a humorless English teacher. (RL)

Offers advice to teachers who want to lead student travel groups on European tours. (RL)

Presents a commentary, based upon a speech given at the 1994 Annual International Reading Association Convention in Toronto to potential writers for the journal "The Reading Teacher." Explores why it is important for teachers to write. (SR)

Reprints an article originally published in 1937. Suggests that conscientious teachers must lead their pupils to see that the democratic ideal must be the heritage of all. Notes that liberal teachers must be fair and must insist on the same rights in the classroom that they demand for themselves in society. (RS)

Tracy Sutherland, a secondary school teacher, gives her opinion of the American public education that keeps changing so often that it finally loses its sight of the overall structure. She has taken George Orwell's book "Animal Farm" as examples in helping students apply the issues from the book in real life.

This article focuses on the future of arts-based research in education. The author contends that there are several features that need to be taken into account if arts-based educational research is to have a future. First, arts-based educational research needs to have a cadre of scholars committed to its exploration--individuals who regard…

Laurence J. Capellas, teacher, principal, and administrator in the Hawai'i Department of Education from 1935 to 1977. Laurence J. Capellas was born in 1913 in Hakalau to two Hawai'i island school-teachers. After attending Hakalau School, St. Mary's School in Hilo, and St. Louis College in Honolulu, he went on to the University of Hawai'i Teachers…

An institution that is commonly taught about in middle and high schools is the U.S. Supreme Court. Many people--adults and young people alike--hold misconceptions about how it works. Interestingly, however, this lack of knowledge does not stop people from having a generally positive opinion of the Court--especially relative to the other two…

A qualitative case study was designed to explore the work experience of six high school English teachers. Teachers were observed over a five month period. No formal, systematic rating scale or observation instruments were used; the observer relied upon his experience as a high school teacher and on specialized training in curriculum theory and…

In order to plan effective programs for high school students, teachers need to be aware of what the students value and how those values may be similar to or different from their own values. Although both groups shared some similar values categories, the student trend in these categories indicated more concern with "heavy" issues.…

Reports on the difficulties a teacher had while trying to compose her first poetry assignment at the Bread Loaf School of English. (RL)