Emergency certification involves the issuance of teaching licenses to individuals who have not completed a traditional college or university teacher education program. This two-page information review examines the problems arising from emergency certification and its relationship to student achievement. Some alternatives to emergency certification…

With the opening of new community colleges comes the problem of recruiting and selecting new faculty members. The consequences of an administrator's initial selection of faculty can have lasting significance for a new institution, but there has been no single set of guidelines to help administrators set up procedures. This report reviews the…

To fully develop a teacher cost model, it is essential to be able to forecast the number of teachers that leave the experience category distribution -- not only the total number that leave, but also the number that leave from each category and experience level within the distribution. Similarly, it is essential to be able to forecast, to the same…

INFORMATION ON STATE CERTIFICATION OF TEACHERS IN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS, THE LARGEST SECTOR OF THE NONPUBLIC SCHOOLS, WAS PROVIDED BY A SURVEY OF (1) STATE POLICIES FOR CERTIFYING CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS, (2) THE EXTENT OF STATE CERTIFICATION IN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS AND REASONS FOR THESE SCHOOLS' CERTIFICATION STATUS, AND (3) OPINIONS OF DIOCESAN…

Student learning depends on quality instructors. An innovative, multi-tiered framework for selecting such instructors is presented in this book. The program is sufficiently flexible to use in both small and large school systems, but rigorous enough to ensure that only the best available candidates are ultimately chosen. By allocating…

Funded by the National Foundation for Educational Research, the project's aims were to investigate the perceptions which sixth-formers held of teaching and to monitor the progress of sixth-formers who decided to teach up to the time when they had completed their initial period as members of the profession. (Author/SSH)

This paper examines the demand for teachers in the United Kingdom and establishes the factors which determine teacher shortages. Policy options aimed at alleviating these shortages are suggested. (Author)

The Nebraska Language Information Placement Service found that in that area foreign language teachers should be able to teach at least one other subject, not necessarily a language, for job opportunities. Flexibility in teaching is needed. Most openings exist in rural communities. (SC)

To make effective use of teaching talent for a differentiated teaching staff, a four-level structure based on levels of responsibility offers many advantages. Teachers at the top two levels would be hired under 12-month contracts, teachers at the bottom two levels under 10-month contracts. Essential to such a plan would be a maximum salary at the…

This publication is a compilation of information from the 50 states and the District of Columbia concerning selected teacher education and certification practices and policies. Its purpose is to help state certification officers find compatible states with which they might work toward formal agreements for interstate teacher certification. At…

Implications for teacher hiring practices are drawn from a study comparing male and female elementary school teachers on two dimensions: tendency to establish control in a classroom and need for personal power. (CW)

A 1977 survey of 102 immigrant teachers in London showed that ethnic minority teachers have great difficulty finding jobs, although they are adequately qualified. Those who do find work are mainly employed in ghetto areas and kept on the lowest pay scale. (Author/SJL)

Teachers with physical disabilities may be just as good--and in some ways better--than teachers without them, as is demonstrated by this look at a well-qualified, highly motivated but unemployed early childhood educator with a hearing impairment. (PGD)

Discussed in this article are the respective shortcomings and advantages of tenure laws. A merit point system is suggested as an alternative whereby educators would be held accountable for what they do and at the same time would be afforded equitable job security. (Author/EB)

The State University of New York at Albany offers a 24- credit-hour sequence leading to provisional and permanent certification to teach academic subjects in secondary schools. Courses cover the teaching/learning process, school and society, computer literacy, substance abuse education, and instructional methods. (CB)