Describes a seminar on word processing for high school teachers at Arizona State University. The course was designed following a needs assessment and changes were made based on participant evaluations. (JOW)

Presents arguments for and against a policy requiring all English teachers to "publish or perish." (RL)

A teacher who feels secure, wanted, and recognized by the administration and the community, who is provided with adequate working conditions, including small classes and effective work space, and who is supported and encouraged to travel, study, and experiment is likely to behave in a highly professional manner and be very productive. (LRA)

A participant in the Oklahoma Writing Project shares ideas about writing instruction. (RL)

Discusses two reform movements affecting public schools: (1) the transition of traditional industrial arts curriculum to technology education and (2) the reform in teacher education. (JOW)

Discusses teachers' use of systematic instructional design practices; describes fundamental components of instructional design; explains a teacher planning inventory; and reports on a study of junior and senior high school teachers that examined their use of instructional design practices in their planning routines. (Contains 21 references.) (LRW)

Discussion of the preparation of personnel to work with gifted secondary students documents the need for special personnel preparation, preparation needs of the classroom teacher and of the gifted specialist, the need to upgrade general education personnel, and examples of some alternative personnel preparation strategies including modules,…

Discusses the philosophy of technology education at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. Outlines the curriculum of its four-year technology teacher education program. (JOW)

Various studies revealed the ineffectiveness of direct grammar instruction to produce better writers. However, a high school teacher finds that explaining grammar rules provides students with tools for building complex thoughts and expressing themselves more elaborately.

Carol Twigg, president of the National Center for Academics Transformation and a secondary school teacher, debates on whether technology in the classroom improves student learning. She claims that the key to increasing student learning is to get students more engaged in what they are studying.

This article provides a brief history of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), including an analysis of the demographic shifts and the tensions between the African American and Korean American communities at the time of the Los Angeles riots in 1992. The article includes my own experiences teaching high school English during the…

Recent research indicates that the taught curriculum in art and design secondary school education pays scant attention to meaning-making in visual art. This article explores possibilities for teaching interpretation through a report on an action-research project based on Tate Modern's Summer Institute for Teachers. In doing so it argues for the…

A veteran teacher with over 35 years experience, the author reflects on the events of September 11, 2001, and how the events of that day demonstrated that teachers fulfill many shifting roles in their students' lives. Here, he shares his own feelings of profound sadness for all the victims on that day, and discusses how the roles of teachers often…

Reviews the current status of the supply of industrial arts/technology teachers and examines empirical, political, and philosophical issues of teacher recruitment. Discusses effective recruitment practices based on research of the teacher education population. (SK)

A model-extended teacher education program aimed at providing quality teachers for secondary schools is presented. Five years of academic work and the initial year of teaching are covered by the program. At the end of the program, a three-year individualized plan for professional growth must be submitted. (MT)