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General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1992
The Dwight D. Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Education Program is the largest federal program for training elementary and secondary teachers in mathematics and science. It has two major components: the national program provides funding for projects of national significance and the state grant program allocates 75% of the funds to different…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid
Howard, Bessie – 1983
This final report on the Mathematics Teacher Resource Development project of the District of Columbia schools identifies the background and project objectives, with a description of the project; outlines the external evaluation design; and describes the results. The target population consisted of teachers needing courses to meet mathematics…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Educational Planning, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
American Association of Physics Teachers, Washington, DC. – 1988
The teacher is one of the most important variables for maintaining or developing excellence in education. According to many surveys many teachers of high school physics earned their degrees in other fields. This paper deals with preservice and inservice high school physics teacher education. Topics include: (1) what physics teachers are expected…
Descriptors: High Schools, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Methods Courses
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. – 1986
Fourth in a series of state publications providing suggestions to school districts for serving limited-English-proficient (LEP) students, the handbook on teacher training outlines the characteristics necessary for mainstream, English as a second language (ESL), or bilingual program teachers of LEP students, in-service and preservice training…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Bilingual Education, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Golightly, Steven J. – 1987
This paper presents an overview of the Sales Techniques and Results (STAR) training program developed by the National Alliance of Business in conjunction with IBM. The STAR training program can be used to help vocational directors, teachers, and counselors to be better salespersons for cooperative education or job placement programs. The paper…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Counselor Role, Counselor Training, Guidelines
Walters, Norma J.; And Others – 1986
The effects of different instructional strategies and selected demographic variables on experienced health occupations teachers' attitudes toward disabled persons were studied. A pretest/posttest experimental design was used with three groups of randomly assigned participants. The treatment consisted of instruction by independent study, lecture,…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Attitudes toward Disabilities
Baldwin, Deborah – 1977
The focus of this paper is the preparation for and the improvement of teaching as a craft. The author hypothesizes that, in order to improve the art of teaching, the notion of problem solving as a daily routine, access to resource allocation, and a change in the ethos of teaching to include a mastery of the craft and cooperative efforts among the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Improvement Programs, Inservice Teacher Education, Interpersonal Relationship
Lounsbury, John H., Ed. – 1984
This collection of essays provides extensive background information and varied views on the history, philosophy, and curriculum of the middle school as a movement or as an educational design for pre- and early adolescents. After a brief prologue by editor John H. Lounsbury, 14 essays by separate authors are presented: "The Junior High School:…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Design
Cooke, Gwen C. – 1985
Eleven recent reports related to excellence in education were examined, and their implications for vocational education were interpreted. Commonalities and differences among the studies were identified, and a selection of these was developed further with major emphases on teaching and learning. Topics were selected according to their immediacy and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality
Pfabel, Wolfgang M., Jr.; Whitcomb, Richard O. – 1977
For several years now, the trend toward teaching culture in the language class has been used to stimulate interest in foreign language study. College language professors should be able to provide cultural knowledge to their language students, but traditional language teacher preparation has emphasized literary skills to a large extent. The…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, Cultural Context, Cultural Education, Educational Innovation
International Inst. for Adult Literacy Methods, Teheran (Iran). – 1977
This directory for literacy workers and adult educators lists universities and institutes that offer training programs to literacy personnel in four geographic regions of the world. The directory contains four sections which are organized alphabetically by geographic region, by countries within each region, and by universities and institutes…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Directories, Educational Programs, Educational Resources
Rogerson, Alan, Ed. – 1978
This document contains six separate works, titled: (1) Functions and Physics; (2) Links Between Geography and Mathematics; (3) Our Inheritance: Common Ground for the Mathematics and Biology Teacher; (4) Mathematics and Chemistry: The Classroom Interface; (5) Mathematical Modeling; and (6) Mathematical Modeling with Calculus. This series of…
Descriptors: Biology, Calculus, Chemistry, Geography
Hopes, Clive, Ed. – 1981
A number of educators formed a network and established the European Forum on Educational Administration. The Forum's program described in this publication had a duration of one week consisting of a day of intensive orientation to the Federal Republic of Germany's education system, two and a half days of visits to educational institutions in the…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Education, Administrator Role, Educational Administration
Huntze, Sharon L.; Grosenick, Judith K. – 1980
The report on education for behavior disordered adolescents focuses on the human resources involved. Analysis of Annual Program Plans, compliance reviews, and interviews with state officials produced findings in four general topic areas (sample findings in parentheses): supply/demand of personnel to serve the behaviorally disordered (approximately…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Delivery Systems, Emotional Disturbances
GREEN, ROBERT L. – 1967
AMERICAN EDUCATION HAS NOT YET SUFFICIENTLY RECOGNIZED THE CRITICAL ROLE OF TEACHING QUALITY AND TEACHERS' ATTITUDES AS INSTRUMENTS OF SOCIAL CHANGE. UNFORTUNATELY, DATA FROM A SURVEY OF 10 MAJOR TEACHER TRAINING INSTITUTIONS SHOW THAT THEY "ARE NOT REALISTICALLY FACING THE PROBLEM OF PROVIDING QUALITY TEACHERS FOR URBAN YOUTH." A REVIEW OF SOME…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Schools, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutes (Training Programs), Preservice Teacher Education
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