Discusses the responsibility of teachers and caregivers to provide high quality feedback to parents by using a parent feedback form (included). Suggests that the form can play a significant role in structuring expectations for both parents and teachers. It can serve to guide parents in what they may expect to see in their child's class and help…

The Doorways training program was designed by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Safe Schools Program (Safe Schools) to enable teachers, community members and students to prevent and respond to school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV). Teachers can play a central role in violence prevention, and they can also help…

The purpose of this practicum was to resolve conflict in a peaceful and constructive manner in the sixth-grade. Students participated in a conflict resolution and peer mediation program designed to enable friendships to grow and to reduce the number of violent acts within the school setting. Thirty students initially began in the program. During…

A study investigated the writing motivation of 145 third- and fifth-grade students. Because self-perceived competence and task value interact in important ways to influence an individual's motivation, these two constructs were used as the basis for measuring children's motivation to write. Students responded to the Motivation to Write Scale (MWS),…

Most instructors today feel that using computers in classrooms to create electronic forums automatically results in a more egalitarian setting, but technology can become an effective cloak for otherwise oppressive practices. These settings can potentially reinscribe dominant ideologies, stifling students rather than empowering them. These…

This paper explores the personal and professional changes that took place for a teacher who taught English in two Washington State prisons. A gradual change in teacher behavior and authority resulted from a self-examination of the role of teacher in this special teaching environment; the teacher found she could learn from the students as well as…

This study identified the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed by teachers and other school staff to encourage high levels of parental involvement. It also developed an evaluation instrument of these factors for future use. The first phase of the project encompassed a review of the literature on teachers' roles in encouraging parental…

This bulletin discusses the concept of technology and the nature of technology education in Australia, including: technological literacy, technological awareness, technological capability, and information technology. Recent curriculum developments in technology and what they mean for teachers' roles in mathematics and science are explored. In…

The composition teacher's role in responding to students papers is especially problematic when students are advanced English-as-a-Second-Language students at the graduate level. With limited knowledge of a student's field of study, the teacher can not simulate the audience the student needs to address. While evaluation by peers in the same field…

With more and more cultural backgrounds represented in the American classroom, it is important that faculty consider the cultural variables that are introduced in such a situation. Cross-cultural awareness in the multi-cultural classroom has become an important issue in recent years for two main reasons: a continued increase of international…

Describes an information exchange program between two Maryland middle schools that used telecommunications to exchange geographical and historical information and personal data. The activities of the talented and gifted classes that participated in the program are described, teacher responsibilities are explained, and the culminating visit between…

Translates research concerning direct and nondirect instruction into workable patterns by clustering teacher behaviors included in instructional organization and management and describing teacher as center of attention in classroom. Rationale for patterns of instruction, description and example of how they may be used, and an observation…

Parents are a vital source of support for our schools. School personnel interact with parents on a daily basis and fortunately, most of these interactions are pleasant and helpful, keeping students' needs in mind. Instances of parental aggression, however, do occur. Volatile or confrontational parents present many unique challenges for educators…

The last few decades saw a dramatic progress in computer technology, which challenged many taken-for-granted assumptions about human communication. In terms of language classroom settings, integrating computers into teaching and learning brings certain communication patterns and, at the same time, poses the question about adaptation of classroom…

Four college classrooms were observed for 40 days to determine the interaction of teacher role behaviors, student characteristics, and developmental phases of the class as a work group in disrupting or facilitating the learning process. The study's observational categories are detailed and implications for effective teaching discussed. (SJL)