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Download full textLemke, June Canty – 1994
The literature shows clearly that rural administrators find it extremely difficult to locate and hire qualified teachers who fit in with the school and community and will stay in the job. The "ideal" rural teacher is certified to teach more than one subject or grade level, can teach students with a wide range of abilities in the same classroom, is…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Personnel Management, Rural Schools
Barnes, Carol P. – 1987
A survey was conducted of faculty members at the 19 campuses of California State University regarding what the beginning teacher should know and be able to do. The resulting profile of characteristics of effective beginning teachers is presented in this document, focusing on nine areas of knowledge, skills, and attitudes. These areas are:…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development
Angelo, Faye; Pickett, Nell Ann – 1987
A study focused on technical communication teachers in two-year institutions nationwide, expanding a previous study (1984-85) concerning the teaching of technical communication in two-year colleges. "Contact persons" at 100 colleges randomly selected from a list of 565 extracted from the previous study, completed a questionnaire and…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Faculty Evaluation, Part Time Faculty, Personnel Data
Cohn, Marilyn M.; And Others – 1985
A description is given of the perceptions and attitudes of 10 teachers currently working in the Dade County (Florida) schools. The paper examines the extent to which changes over the past two decades have affected the ways in which they perceive their work and the teaching profession in general. These teachers entered teaching primarily for…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Job Satisfaction, Locus of Control
Plihal, Jane – 1982
In a study of 30 elementary school teachers' perceptions of the rewards of teaching, two major types of intrinsic rewards were found. One kind of reward came from enjoying interactions with the students regardless of the outcome. The other type of reward is achievement oriented and results from feeling instrumental in students' accomplishments.…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Job Satisfaction
Ololube, Nwachukwu Prince – Online Submission, 2006
Significantly, job satisfaction and motivation are very essential to the continuing growth of educational systems around the world and they rank alongside professional knowledge and skills, center competencies, educational resources as well as strategies, in genuinely determining educational success and performance. This study assessed the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rewards, Politics of Education, Motivation
Stone, Mary; And Others – 1997
This paper reports the findings of three integrated studies initiated by principal/researchers in an elementary, middle, and high school. The purpose of integrating the studies was to compare and contrast teacher leadership in the following areas: characteristics of teacher leadership, motivation for teachers to assume leadership roles, supports…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Environment, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
Kenny, Jody – 1990
This 1987-88 study was conducted to identify, describe, and analyze the significant issues facing one of Vermont's five remaining schoolmarms. The primary subject of the study is a first-year one-room schoolteacher in a rural Vermont town. Chapter 1 offers a brief history of Vermont's one-room schools, a description of the town, the school, and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnography
Sim, Wong-Kooi – 1988
Questionnaire responses from 926 secondary school teachers were analysed in order to relate various background characteristics variables (classified as personal characteristics, professional characteristics, and school characteristics) and job characteristics (divided into conditions of work, roles and responsibilities, and teaching practices) to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Characteristics, Job Satisfaction, Multiple Regression Analysis
Roth, Robert A. – 1983
An overview is presented of studies, reports, and articles dealing with the teaching profession, particularly in the area of teacher education. Most of the data reflect negative implications at various stages of the teacher development process, from selection of teacher candidates, through admission, selection during preparation programs,…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Beginning Teachers, Education Majors, Educational Trends
Smith, Frederick D. – BIA Education Research Bulletin, 1977
One of the principal problems the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) has in carrying out its responsibility to educate Indian children is the high turnover rate among its teachers; a large proportion of teachers in the BIA school system leave after their first year or second year of work. Teachers at six elementary schools on the Navajo Reservation…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Reservations, Elementary School Teachers, Faculty Mobility
Tye, Kenneth A. – 1981
Data collected from teachers participating in the Study of Schooling research project were used in this report to explore variables critical to school change. The influence of external factors on teachers, including teachers' experiences with consultants, inservice training activities, peer guidance, and educational organizations, is analyzed in…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Attitude Change, Change Strategies, Educational Change
Farrington, William S. – 1980
The drop-out rate of new vocational agriculture teachers and the necessity of a method to determine problem areas that affect the success of beginning teachers were two important concerns of the Southern Research Conference in Agricultural Education. Therefore, a study was conducted to determine what, if any, changes need to be made by teacher…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Beginning Teachers, Problems, Secondary Education
Wood, J. M. – 1981
Rising Australian unemployment in the 1970s, increasing part-time employment, and large fluctuations in teacher supply and demand has made Australian teachers interested in more flexible employment patterns. One such pattern, permanent part-time teaching (PPTT), involves teaching at least 12 hours of school per week at fixed times with prorated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Relationship, Part Time Faculty, Secondary Education
Boe, Erling E.; Bobbitt, Sharon A.; Cook, Lynne H.; Barkanic, Gema; Maislin, Greg – 1998
This report contains national trend and predictor data for the supply of public school K-12 teachers in eight cognate areas: general elementary education; mathematics and science education; language education; social studies education; arts, physical, and health education; business and vocational education; other general education; and special…
Descriptors: Career Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Patterns, Labor Turnover
