Describes and discusses "Rhetoric 2001," the author's essay written in 1974 asserting that teachers of writing underestimate their role in the discursive construction and reconstruction of cultural structures and processes--and therefore underestimate the crucial, powerful role they can play. Notes that because of significant advances in theory…

Explores the distinctions among good teaching, scholarly teaching, and teaching scholarship and discusses methods of formative evaluation that can produce improvement in these areas. (EV)

Considers what Europe contributes to international innovation in business communication. Discusses questions regarding innovation in business communication research and teaching as well as in the way the Association for Business Communication's European convention functions as an association of scholars and teachers. Concludes that educators need…

Discusses this journal issue's special section on education of teachers for middle school teaching. Asserts that despite criticism or apathy, attention must be given to creating a better pool of middle grades teaching talent. Introduces the issue's articles, which deal with successful attempts to bring together the faculties of restructured middle…

Since publication of Boyer's seminal work entitled "Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the professoriate" (1990), there has been a substantial movement in higher education to improve the quality of instruction and to develop the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) at universities and colleges across the United States. Typically,…

Melville's Captain Ahab might stand as an archetype for the person who attempts to control rather than discover. Such persons inevitably limit their own potential and suppress expression and development in those around them. A teacher who taught first in middle school and now on the college level found that despite her vow never to become a…

The use of belief statements, or leadership platforms, may have uses and advantages as a pedagogical strategy beyond those cited in the literature. Some of the other uses of leadership platforms are described here. The paper details uses of the platform, pedagogical benefits of the platforms that are based on current theories of learning, and…

This paper reports on research evaluating a faculty development program, Creating a Collaborative Learning Environment (CCLE), at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The study combined a contextual study to examine historical data and three case studies with participant verification. CCLE is a voluntary professional development program designed…

As local, state, and national educational reform continues to impact professional educators and others who support student learning, all professionals are faced with responding to change in a positive way. The study of educational change over the last 30 years has brought educators to a paradigm breakthrough in terms of how they think and act in…

The simulation scenario for a two-day problem-solving workshop proposes: "You have just been appointed to the Instructional Resources Laboratory Planning Committee Plan, organize, and operate the laboratory for two years." The purpose of this workshop was to bring fresh ideas to the problem of assisting faculty members to become better teachers.…

This monograph is part of a series disseminated by the Florida Institute of Education for the purpose of summarizing and describing collaborative progams and activities among the different levels and sectors of education. The mission of the institute is to plan and develop such activities in support of the improvement of public education. Seven…

Southern's Ongoing Support (SOS) plan, developed at Missouri Southern State College, is described. This plan provides educational assistance and expertise to any first year teacher education graduate who believes help is needed in an area identified by the college as a specialty area objective. Assistance may also be requested by the employing…

The Teaching Workshop for Medical Educators at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine is a course designed to provide participants with an opportunity to develop further those teaching skills associated with instructional excellence. (Editor/PG)

How better understanding of one's own childhood and education can make one a better teacher, and how planners should take account of the personality needs of faculty members in designing institutional changes. (Editor)

Today there are proportionately fewer college students of traditional college age of 25 or over. The effects of the adult student on curriculum and college teaching are examined. (PG)