Describes a staff development project, created by and for teachers, that consolidates awareness, realistic planning, implementation, sharing, and frequent assessment activities to answer the calls for educational reform to both improve and change classroom instruction. Includes staff development questionnaire. (MKR)

Describes an interactive inservice program designed to show teachers that children are capable of writing long pieces of discourse with appropriate conventions if motivated through instruction or internal interest. Suggests that writing should be filled with multiple opportunities for discovery and play. (RS)

Describes how a classroom teacher's experiences as a second-language learner (during a summer institute in Spain) helped her become a better teacher of her bilingual students. (RS)

Bangladesh, a poor, densely populated country the size of Wisconsin, typically has elementary classes of 50 students learning by call-and-response techniques. Since 1996, 13,000 teachers from 2,900 primary schools have been trained in multiple ways of teaching and learning. Teachers are determined to personalize learning. (MLH)

Discusses what four teachers and their staff developer (each of whom wrote an article for this themed issue of this journal) learned over their two-year journey, a journey in which the goal was to improve their writing workshops. (RS)

Describes a series of five one semester courses attended jointly by prospective and practicing teachers of grades K-8 and in which practicing teachers act as mentors for prospective teachers. (Author/MM)

Teachers can best process their duties by renewing themselves according to today's context. The modifications in science, technology, culture, and social life change the educational theory and its application. Teachers should have to effectively adapt themselves to these changes. This is possible only by arranging continual in-service training for…

An essential part of establishing Project LEM (Learning Experience Module), a program designed for multiage groupings in open-space schools, was the development of a multifaceted informational approach to help assure that facts replaced rumors and enthusiasm replaced parental anxiety. The LEM staff believes that good public relations call for…

This article contributes to the knowledge base on professional development (PD) by reporting on teachers' perspectives of their PD experiences when learning alongside children. Teachers participated in a six-step program of research entitled "In-service in context: Learning science and technology in elementary classrooms" (ISIC). ISIC represents…

The reform of the Romanian system of initial and in-service teacher education is facing similar pressures to those experienced by other European countries' teacher education systems. In particular, the drive towards greater professionalization of teaching careers and university training for teachers. In Romania this process has vacillated between…

A summary report is presented of interviews with 28 bilingual teacher aides who work in ten elementary Schools Austin Independent School District. The interviews were conducted to provide data to assist the project staff in assessing ongoing activities of the aides as well as specific process objectives. They were designed, therefore, with a…

This paper describes a survey conducted in Uganda during 1994 to determine the management training needs of primary school headteachers. A questionnaire, listing 155 tasks and duties performed by Ugandan headteachers, was administered to 47 headteachers in 3 districts of Uganda. Participants were asked to indicate the tasks they considered more…

This discussion guide features plans for three workshops, each accompanying one of the 20-minute video programs in the series "Breaking the Cycle of Failure: Marie Carbo's Practical Strategies for Reading Success." The three programs present an overview of the need for teaching based on children's reading styles, the effect of using the…

The Career Conscious Individual Model of career education for grades K-6 deals with (1) self-knowledge and interpersonal skills; (2) life roles, settings and events; (3) life career planning knowledge and skills; and (4) basic studies and occupational preparation. The development of an example module is also offered. (MW)

If children's satisfaction in and through books is not diminished by reading instructional practice or lack of reading proficiency, and if the thrust of reading enjoyment adds momentum to the instructional program, it is indeed within the realm of teacher expectation, of possibility and plausibility, that book awards for progress or achievement…