Recent studies have shown that strengths in spatial skills are a key to success in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) careers. However, these skills are undervalued in our educational system and thus seldom incorporated in classroom teaching. As a first step towards changing the current practices, we worked with a group of…

Operation Magpie was a citizen science project that involved the community in collecting data about magpies. This article describes one aspect of the project from an education perspective. The study began with a collaboration of teacher educators, environmental scientists and a local radio station. After an initial workshop with 75 teachers, three…

Information to help faculty, administrators, and students at Michigan State University understand and eliminate sex discrimination on campus is presented in two fact sheets. On campus, sex discrimination is the limiting preconceptions that faculty, administrators, or students may have concerning appropriate and expected behaviors, abilities,…

Explores why it is both difficult and vital to model nonauthoritarian, student-centered, collaborative learning in a teacher workshop on writing. (SRT)

Discusses the development and implementation of the Folk Art Laboratory School, a one-week summer program. This inservice teacher education program was a cooperative venture between the University of Indianapolis and a local elementary school. Teachers learned about the various genres of folk art as taught by local practitioners. (MJP)

This module on developing and using learning centers in the classroom was developed in response to interest voiced by teachers and assistant teachers in Mississippi. Intended to accompany assistant teacher staff development videotapes, the information included in the module is in handout form to be disseminated to the participants by the workshop…

The New Teachers Mathematics Staff Development Program for grades 9 through 12 is a combination of content and methodology. Teachers focus their attention on content, lesson planning, questioning, homework, and testing. This volume contains materials for eight workshop sessions. Sessions included are: (1) An Introduction to the New York City…

This paper suggests that leadership is needed to assist teachers in doing an excellent job of teaching social studies. The principal or supervisor must provide the necessary leadership. This leader needs to observe teaching and learning situations frequently in the classroom setting. Teaching suggestions are provided by the leader to teachers so…

Interviews Jan Turbull about her work with writing teachers in the St. George Writing Project in Australia. (HTH)

This manual contains an outline of a 4-day teacher training workshop focusing on environmental education at the early childhood level. The overall purpose of the workshop is to stimulate the infusion of environmental education into early childhood programs as a way of fostering in young children an understanding of and appreciation for the natural…

This paper describes an inservice training project in Colorado funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The goal of the project is to create a self-sustaining and expanding network of trained leaders in geographic education. The project addresses: (1) the need to improve and expand the geographic literacy of U.S. citizens; (2) the…

A packet of materials provides the leader of an inservice program on the teaching of reading another language with information on relevant theory on the reading process, a plan for conveying that information in a workshop, and a set of handouts for participants. The course structure includes background information and detailed notes for leading…

The New Teachers Mathematics Staff Development Program for grades 7 through 9 is a combination of content and methodology. Teachers focus their attention on content, lesson planning, questioning, homework, and testing. This volume contains materials for eight workshop sessions. Sessions included are: (1) An Introduction to the New York City School…

This publication contains reference materials and activities for teachers in a staff development program in New York City, teaching grades 3 and 6. The program combines content and methodology. Sections in the publication include: (1) Student Verbalization Resources; (2) Manipulative Resources; (3) Probability, Statistics, and Graph Resources; (4)…

Presents a four-credit summer workshop offered by the University of Utah as a model for teachers who wish to plan a workshop or course for other teachers. Describes the five major components of the program: problem solving, science content, science stuff, teaching strategies, and demonstrations. (JRH)