Identifies qualities of an ideal liberal teacher, including capability of giving a liberal education, living well, exhibiting orderly habits, possessing humane values, and believing in the power of the mind. Difficulties in becoming a good teacher are discussed. Available from: College of Education, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011.…

Presented at the Industrial Arts division session of the American Vocational Association 1971 annual meeting. (MU)

Discusses the process of answering a classified advertisement for employment as a church preschool teacher. (BB)

Discusses how to teach teachers who want to become administrators or supervisors, explaining the importance of ensuring that they have clear visions and are willing to take responsibility for their actions. Four relevant issues to consider include articulating personal visions, anchoring those visions, personal modeling, and rearranging classroom…

Three experiments examined the ability of blind individuals and individuals simulating the visual acuity of 20/400 to monitor the behaviors of a cane traveler in various environments and at distances between 10 feet and 25 feet. Results suggested that at least some vision is needed for instructors monitoring visually impaired individuals learning…

Investigated the relationship between measures of mathematics teacher skill and student achievement in 795 California high schools. Results support the hypothesis that there is a shortage of qualified mathematics teachers in California, and that this shortage is associated with low student scores. (SLD)

"Tell me how you used your sense of humor to defuse a difficult situation or teach an important lesson." Queries of this sort can be used in an interview to increase the likelihood of hiring high-quality teachers and administrators. Spending time and effort to ensure only people-centered educators are hired who, in addition to possessing…

In this chapter, the authors examine developments in the teacher workforce and in the occupation of teaching across recent generations. They take their point of departure from the perspective of prevailing policy discourse on enduring problems of educational equity, asking not only how teaching has evolved in recent decades but more specifically…

This is the eighth brief in a series of Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) analyses of Head Start Program Information Report data. All Head Start programs are required to complete the Program Information Report (PIR) on an annual basis. Based on information reported through the PIR, this policy brief describes the characteristics of Head…

While educators in gifted education and general education appear to share many goals, there are inadequacies in the implementation of complex educational practices that meet the needs of gifted students in general education classrooms and the goals of educational reform. This paper presents a theoretical framework, Teaching for Intellectual and …

The national survey focused on whether there is a standard set of practices with regard to establishing the psychological and social/emotional fitness of teacher candidates. Another focus of the study was to assess whether there are differences between National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) and non-NCATE approved…

Selected teachers who completed their training at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale during the years 1969, 1970, and 1971 were asked to evaluate themselves and their performance in relation to an inventory of some fifty-one selected items designed to measure teacher performance and personal characteristics. (Author)

In 1975, the Center for the Study of Community Colleges conducted a national survey of humanities faculty in two-year colleges. This paper summarizes the characteristics of literature instructors, the largest subgroup in the total sample of 1,493 full- and part-time faculty. Findings of the survey include: (1) slightly fewer (21%) than the total…

Reported are the results of a study concerned with the mathematical course work of teachers and the achievement of their students as measured by the "Scholastic Aptitude Test-Mathematics" (SAT-M). Information about the teachers was obtained by questionnaire. Student scores were obtained from school records. Data were obtained from 26 schools and…

This book examines the issues involved in creating reflective learning environments and raises questions that will help guide individuals' development as facilitators of learning. Section 1 looks at reflection as the core of learning. Section 2 describes the three stages in the reflective process: creating, observation, and analysis of the…