Describes the purposes of the Center for Science Education at the University of Oslo as follows: to give help and advice to acting teachers; to make the staff at the university more aware of the needs and problems of the schools. Outlines the activities involved in fulfilling these purposes. (GS)

Proposes in-service training on the utilization of ancillary personnel (special education teacher, school nurse, hearing and speech clinician, guidance counselor) in assisting the social studies teacher with the mainstreamed student. Outlines how ancillary personnel may aid in preparing students for entrance into the regular classroom, developing…

Chemistry Teaching Associate Program brings chemistry teachers from high schools to a university campus and treats them as college faculty members. Intensive cooperation among professors, teachers, and graduate assistants has resulted in the revision of undergraduate curriculum and stronger pre-service programs. (PS)

Reports on the progress of an inter-consultant program involving Indiana University and the Monroe County Schools, Indiana. In this program a doctoral student in science education works during the course of an academic year with teachers of a particular school. The program appears to be effective in bringing about change in elementary school…

Suggests that economic literacy will be fostered if economic concepts such as scarcity, cost-benefit analysis, supply and demand, production, consumption, and money and barter are introduced to elementary school children and included in the social studies curriculum in increasingly complex fashion throughout high school. Ways of helping teachers…

Indicates one method for the improvement of primary science instruction is to examine a selected topic and enumerate problems it can pose to the teacher in terms of the nature of science and ease of acquisition of relevant information. Provides examples of this approach in the area of bird study. (GS)

Summarizes a study that surveyed core-subject coordinators in a sample of Northern Ireland primary schools regarding their specific curriculum-differentiation responsibilities and the difficulties experienced when trying to evaluate differentiation in practice. Inservice needs were also identified. Results showed that the coordinator's role is…

Five inservice workshops for coordinators and teachers of practical nursing were conducted to provide a coordinated approach to curriculum development and to the teaching of practical nursing throughout the state of Pennsylvania. In addition to providing up-to-date information on curriculum development, design, and revision, topics such as…

One of the possible techniques for collecting empirical data is video recordings of a computer screen with specific screen capture software. This method for collecting empirical data shows how students use the BSCWII (Be Smart Cooperate Worldwide--a web based collaboration/groupware environment) to coordinate their work and collaborate in…

This paper advances some bases for a workplace curriculum. These are premised on conceptions of curriculum as intents directed to individual's progression towards full and effective workplace performance, yet whose enactment is shaped by workplace factors and is ultimately experienced by workers as learners. So whether the intentions will be…

How does teachers' technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) inform their instructional planning? How can this knowledge be enhanced? In an interpretivist study of experienced secondary social studies teachers' planning, we sought to discover clues to the nature and development of these teachers' TPACK-in-action as it was expressed in…

Current literature reveals that induction for beginning principals is often poorly planned or nonexistent. The purpose of this research, which examined induction practices for 112 randomly selected first-year elementary principals in Alabama, Mississippi, and South Carolina, was to study current induction programs, determine beginning principals'…

The opening chapter of this volume attempts to provide a framework for education about the international or global community that is emerging. Chapter 2 notes some of the recent and possible future changes in the world and in the United Nations (UN) system. The third chapter identifies some of the obstacles to learning about the world and the UN…

This study identified the responsibilities assigned to instructional supervisors (role performance) and what they felt these responsibilities should be (role expectation). Ninety Kentucky supervisors made up the sample. A 63-item questionnaire was administered in which respondents were requested both to identify their primary and secondary…