This document presents the texts of five addresses delivered at the Community College Association for Instruction and Technology (CCAIT) Spring 1976 Conference on Instructional Change. The keynote address, by Dr. Patricia Gill, points out the need for change in community college instructional delivery systems, describes some individualized…

These articles and essays offer viewpoints from practitioners and researchers who are doing and using research for the advancement of education. Articles include: (1) The Promise of Scientific Evidence in Education (Steven Nelson); (2) A New Day for Mathematics Education? (Denise Jarrett Weeks); (3) A Tale of Two Schools: Reading Instruction in…

One of the assumptions of the debate over parental choice is that private schools are more effective than public ones. This paper reviews the available evidence that religious schools in Europe are more effective. Available studies compare outcomes of public and religious schools in Flemish Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, and…

This publication helps identify ways in which high standards can be established and carried out in the classroom, discussing the importance of high standards and what has been learned from research about how teachers can help their students meet high learning goals. Chapter 1, "Introduction," examines the intent of standards, what has…

This study examined what teachers needed to learn to teach in new ways and how teachers developed those capacities. It also investigated the additional skills and orientations teachers needed to take on leadership roles and how teacher leaders acquired their ability to lead their colleagues. Data came from a 2-year study of 10 exemplary teacher…

"Shadowing," an inservice teacher education technique, requires a teacher-participant to follow a worker on the job in order to learn about current roles, tasks, and job conditions. This experiential method helps vocational teachers upgrade their knowledge of business and industry in order to train students for current employment…

Advocates standards-based teacher assessment linked with school reform as a system for building the capacity of elementary teachers. Suggests that linking teaching standards with student standards focuses and coordinates state reforms to address knowledge, skills, and abilities needed by teachers to enhance student learning. Examines a program in…

One of five articles in the section on the "Promise and Purpose of Professional Development Schools," this article examines essential purposes of PDS and presents recommendations for action (start small, adopt a developmental approach, co-construct and monitor relationships, redefine school/university roles, re-educate and support…

This case study examined the changes in a second grade teacher's beliefs about learning and teaching as she resolved the conflicts/dilemmas between her previous views and the emphasis of a project on children's construction of mathematical meanings. Video cameras were used to record each mathematics lesson from one school year. (SLD)

Examines how Connecticut's alternative teacher certification policy objectives have been met during the Alternative Route program's first three years. The program has successfully brought qualified individuals into teaching who contribute excellent subject matter knowledge and professionalism. It has been an external catalyst for change in…

Analyzes how staff at two inservice programs that helped elementary teachers develop constructivist teaching practices construed program subject matter, noting the role they assigned subject matter in helping educators learn to teach. The reformist pedagogy used a principled conception of subject matter. Developing teachers' subject matter…

Describes the National Education Association Teacher Education Initiative, a national collaborative of schools, professional teacher associations, and universities designed to accelerate the pace of change and renewal in teacher preparation and public education. The collaboration is organized around principles that apply to the continuum of…

In discussing the preparation and development of U.S. science teachers, this paper presents a historical overview of events leading to the present situation, describing the current national challenge for science-teacher educators and concluding with some examples of promising practices aligned with recommended reforms. Each subsection begins with…

Discusses how staff development is different in standards-based systems, describing ways to ensure that systems have the capacity for growth and development based on the standards, explaining configuration maps, and presenting six components of building capacity for standards-based reform: covenants; staff and community involvement; curriculum,…

Assessed junior high school teachers' work satisfaction and perceptions of teaching difficulties before and after participation in a faculty inservice instructional change project. Pre- and post-inservice surveys indicated that satisfaction remained stable, whereas dissatisfaction declined over time. Students were the main source of difficulty.…