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Download full textMcGinnis, J. Randy – 2003
There is considerable interest in preparing science teachers who can implement reform-based practices in schools. However, there are relatively few research programs that have systematically studied the implementation of this teaching innovation over extended time (i.e., the entire undergraduate experience and the first few years of full time…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Education, Mathematics Education
Maryland State Department of Education, 2004
Central to reform efforts in Maryland's Institutions of Higher Education (IHE) since adoption of the 1995 Teacher Education Task Force Report has been development and maintenance of Professional Development Schools (PDS) for the training of teacher candidates and to provide continuing professional development for in-service teachers. This document…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Colleges, Professional Development, Professional Development Schools
Nicodemus, Robert B.; And Others – 1969
The authors analyze some problems met in the attempt to implement an elementary science curriculum involving the use of Elementary Science Study units. The highly organized large scale effort at implementation seemed to have considerable impact at first, but it is now hard to identify lasting effects. The organization of workshops and use of…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Elementary School Science
Furno, Orlando F.; Kidd, J.S. – 1974
This book is primarily about the problems of preparing teachers for assignments to schools in low-income neighborhoods and is based on an extensive case study of a specific attempt to deal with these problems. Chapter 1 introduces some basic issues in the training of teachers for assignment to schools in low-income neighborhoods. Chapter 2…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Change, Inner City, Inservice Teacher Education
Peer reviewedWalsh, James M. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2001
This article describes a Maryland staff development program that guides educators through an improved Individualized Education Program (IEP) process that provides a better alignment of IEP goals with general education curricular outcomes. The program's components and the teachers' response to the program during the 1999-2000 year are discussed.…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, Curriculum, Disabilities
Jett, Daniel L.; Schafer, William D. – 1992
The historical needs for teacher competence in assessment are being increased as educational reform efforts bring new types of assessment into use. A statewide proportional random sample of 1,220 Maryland high school teachers was surveyed to determine the amount of training they had received in classroom assessment and the sources of that…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, High Schools
