This study examined what teachers needed to learn to teach in new ways and how teachers developed those capacities. It also investigated the additional skills and orientations teachers needed to take on leadership roles and how teacher leaders acquired their ability to lead their colleagues. Data came from a 2-year study of 10 exemplary teacher…

Four authors provide a profile of one school district's efforts to recruit and support a teacher willing to meet the challenge of National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification. A partnership among the district's teacher union, the superintendent, a school principal, and the teacher emerged to produce the district's first…

Examined how graduate physical education teaching assistants (GTAs) acquired teaching skills. Participants completed questionnaires that investigated acquisition of teaching skills. One GTA received a behavioral teacher training intervention after experiencing difficulty with teaching. Her students completed a social validation questionnaire.…

This study examines the theory-and-practice connection model in mentor preparation in the context of two mentor preparation programmes in Hong Kong. The 30- and the 60-hour mentoring support development (MSD) programmes share a common conceptualization of mentoring--with the improvement of teaching and learning as the core of mentoring--yet they…

The rapid growth of online learning has led to the development of faculty inservice evaluation models focused on quality improvement of degree programs. Based on current "best practices" of student online assessment, the Online Faculty Development and Assessment System (OFDAS), created at the Canary Islands, was designed to serve the…

Four hundred twenty-six elementary, middle and high school teachers from the Albuquerque (New Mexico) Public Schools participated in a four-day staff development program in Effective Teaching Training, in January, 1986. This report evaluates that program in terms of: (1) effectiveness of staff development as defined in current research; (2)…

Research on improving teacher practice is examined, focusing on the collaboration of researchers and practitioners in developing effective change strategies. Three studies are introduced that provide long-range data and form a knowledge base: (1) the Rand Corporation study of federal programs supporting educational change (1978); (2) the I/D/E/A…

The purpose of this manual is to identify teaching skills and their justification and objectives in a learning situation and to suggest a few of a wide selection of professional activities and services which meet these objectives and satisfy learner needs. The manual is designed for inservice teacher education activities or supervisory programs.…

The focus of the literature in this review is on schools of education and teacher educators. References are included on major works on the topics, and central questions and issues are raised. The factors which make it difficult to arrive at consensus about the quality of teaching in higher education are outlined along with various definitions of…

This report presents data collected about the impact of the Research Utilizing Problem Solving (RUPS) instructional system on the classrooms of teachers trained in two RUPS workshops, which were part of the Improving Teaching Competencies Program at the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. The report is divided into four chapters, the first…

A summary of a research project, the publication is an initial attempt to provide the field of adult basic education (ABE) with a systematic, viable approach to the problem of competency identification for ABE teachers on a national basis. The list of ranked knowledge, behaviors, and attitudes appropriate for ABE teachers represents the most…

The 1968-69 Experienced Teacher Fellowship Program (ExTFP) in industrial arts was designed to orient and upgrade 24 urban teachers for a broad-base industrial arts program as described in the Galaxy Approach for Occupational Education. The program was organized to: (1) provide in-depth courses in technical areas, (2) provide short-term intensive…

Through the completion of a questionnaire-rating scale, three juries composed of authorities in education and English, of communication arts coordinators, and of outstanding English teachers helped to identify and rank common competencies and concepts that all prospective English teachers should acquire in their English methods courses, and…

This report presents the results of a study to determine the personnel development needs of teachers in vocational-technical education; to identify these needs in terms of competencies and instructional areas; to determine to what extent presently offered university courses are related to these specific competency needs; and to survey recent…

This substitute teacher management program was developed to improve school substitute teachers' skills and confidence at one southeastern middle school. The project involved 53 classroom teachers who had completed a needs assessment survey regarding substitute teachers and 16 substitute teachers employed by the site on a regular basis. Program…