Although U.S. public schools now possess 5.8 million computers, roughly one for every nine students, they are not widely used in classroom instruction. Industry leaders have neglected teachers' central role in instruction and have grossly oversimplified schools' complexities. Computers will become more commonplace when they are used to make…

Teaching is a trade that hasn't yet discovered the power of self-transformation and self-rejuvenation. To become empowered, teachers must stop seeing themselves as victims of bureaucrats, citizens, and recalcitrant children. Only by restructuring their jobs from the ground up (by determining to serve children better) can teachers emerge as…

The Research Institute for Higher Education (RIHE) in Hiroshima University started a program of research on the Changing Academic Profession (CAP) in 2005. This research is funded by the Ministry of Education and Science as a grant-in-aid for scientific research headed by Professor Akira Arimoto, Director of the Research Institute for Higher…

Research suggests that the relief (substitute) teacher should be viewed as an extremely important educational resource. Reviewed literature spanning the better part of twenty years indicates that in parts of Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, many students spend as much as one full year (or more) of their K-12 education having…

Professional role performance difficulties experienced by 23 first year itinerant specialists in the field of special education were studied in Illinois public schools (excluding Chicago). An itinerant specialist is a teacher with specialized training in a particular disability who provides services to students on a homebound basis, in a hospital…

The authors discuss coping behaviors for nursing school teachers new to university faculties, stating that success is an unintended result of role socialization. Organizational constraints, goal conflicts, dealing with reality, the overload discovery syndrome, and improvement suggestions are included. (MF)

Individuals making the transition from student to teacher must be prepared to undertake a new and varied role. Beginning teachers must adjust to the new environment while learning as much as possible about the school and its policies. (DF)

This book investigates time dilemmas in education, explaining how educators deal with time issues. Section 1, "It's About Time," describes what a special committee found out about the time dilemma and makes recommendations for educators regarding time use. Section 2, "Building Time into the School Year" (Linda Bacon), presents one Florida school…

Compensatory education may reinforce inequality because children must compete with unequal resources. Changing conditions of teachers' work is central because teachers are most strategically placed to affect poor children and have the capacity for strategic thinking about reform. Reforms must be grounded in a larger agenda of social justice. (SK)

We surveyed 374 parents and 82 teachers in the Juarez, Mexico schools regarding their views of what makes an effective elementary school. The survey was a Spanish translation of an instrument used by Johnson (1998). Although both parents and teachers supported most of the factors associated with effective schools, they emphasized different aspects…

Focus of Study: This article investigates how teachers' relationships with boys can be central in bolstering boys' resilience and connection to their work in schools. Specifically, we examine how teachers understand the ways that their relationships with boys shape their teaching practice as well as their understandings of boys' learning in…

Those in composition studies know, experientially, that teaching informs their lives and results in knowledge, but they also know that English Studies culture(s) continue to valorize expert knowledge over community knowledge, empirical and scholarly research over alternate methods of constructing inquiry, and theory over practice. Although…

A three-phase investigation studied the nature of extended professional roles (in terms of leadership) among kindergarten through twelfth-grade teachers in Michigan through interviews, a survey of job titles, and a survey of teacher-leaders. Data were collected on professional assignments, work organizational styles, perception of leadership…

This volume contains policies and standards of practice formulated and approved by the national council of the American Association of University Professors and the annual meeting of the membership working with standing special committees and, at times, with other organizations. These reports and statements of principle appear under 7 topical…

Author emphasizes that in open area schools it is the curriculum which is the crux of the matter of space usage. (Author/MB)