Essay explores the role of the teacher in setting a cooperative or competitive tone in the classroom. (Editor)

Points out that advocates of cooperative learning frequently operate as if cooperation was better than both competition and individual work. Argues that educators should seek to empower students to engage in the best, most humanly evolved, most moral forms of all three. (MS)

When middle schools align themselves with high schools, the educational and developmental transition of early adolescents succeeds. Begin the work of transitioning sooner and high schools will spend less time acclimating students to the demands of high school and more time teaching new material. This article discusses the importance of aligning…

Discusses how student teaching is supposed to use all the elements of the learning cycle. Considers the realities of student teaching experiences and illustrates models of student teaching. Presents four profiles of student teachers that are drawn from semester-long reflections. Discusses supervisors' reactions to the reflection cycle. Concludes…

Outlines the benefits of writing center-writing across the curriculum programs in high schools. Notes the value of inservice workshops and collaboration. (SR)

An inclusion classroom is defined as one that is tasked with mainstreaming special education students into a population of general education students. In this brief article, the author, a high school mathematics teacher, shares his personal experiences in teaching in an inclusion classroom. A primary focus is his relationship with the special…

Hopes to better understand the perceptions of host teachers of their roles as mentors and the extent to which those perceptions were grounded in reflection on theory and practice. Considers to what extent supervising student teachers results in reflection on theory and practice and what cooperating teachers perceive as their roles in the mentoring…

Eight years ago, a new senior interdisciplinary science course called "Oceans: Past and Present" for the McCallie School in Tennessee was designed. The idea stemmed from the combination of a physics teacher's desire for a course based on a summer program at sea and a writing center director/teacher's longing for the ocean from the…

There are five phases in the development of accommodative behavior between teaching and administrative personnel, from the initial stage of teachers organizing into a bargaining unit through the final stage marked by high levels of both individual and organizational cooperation in administrative decision making. (Author/SJL)

The authors briefly describe their research on teaching cooperative classroom behavior to students; outline the essential components of a curricular activity designed to foster cooperative behavior; and explain how teachers can promote in their students both the skills and the affective components of cooperation. (SJL)

The author calls for an end to the hostility and confrontations which have divided those who should be working together for the schools. He outlines the obligations of boards, administrators, teachers, professional associations, parents, and students in a cooperative educational enterprise. (SJL)