NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing 14,536 to 14,550 of 15,524 results Save | Export
Smith, Michael Sloane – 1990
To date there has been no research done on teacher education programs that use whole language as a vehicle for instilling reflective forms of pedagogy. This study is an initial effort to develop a research base in this area. The study examined the socialization process of teachers who adopted the teaching perspectives of the whole language…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Elementary Education
Feiman-Nemser, Sharon; And Others – 1992
The Mentor Teacher Program in the state of California is designed to retain capable teachers by expanding their rewards and opportunities. This report focuses on the character and quality of mentoring in an alternate route program sponsored by a large urban school district. A 30-hour required training course for mentors introduces them to their…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Beginning Teacher Induction, Educational Practices, English Instruction
Manthei, Judith – 1992
The data presented in this paper were collected from 73 early childhood, elementary, and middle school teachers who were among the first teachers to prepare for formal mentor teacher leadership roles in Massachusetts. These teachers were enrolled in a graduate mentor teacher preparation course at Wheelock College (Massachusetts). The Inventory is…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Higher Education, Individual Needs
Whitehead, Jack – 1994
This conference presentation describes the characteristics of a living educational theory, explores its implications for self-study methodology, and offers a self-study from an educative relationship with a teacher educator. The theory has its basis in the following ideas: educators exist as living contradictions when their values are negated in…
Descriptors: Action Research, Educational Practices, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education
Bouas, M. Jean – 1993
This study examined how methods courses affected preservice teachers' knowledge of and attitudes toward cooperative learning. Data were gathered utilizing a pre/post course attitude survey, a pre/post class true/false test, postclass interviews, and interviews conducted with subjects during their respective student teaching experiences.…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Cooperative Planning, Elementary Education, Higher Education
Goodman, Kenneth S., Ed.; And Others – 1989
Intended for teachers from kindergarten through adult education and for administrators, this book demonstrates how teachers have created environments that facilitate whole language evaluation. Articles in the book discuss strategies used in evaluating students' growth across many curricular areas, including reading, writing, and second language…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Alternative Assessment, Classroom Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
Sitton, Thad; Rowold, Milam C. – 1987
This book explores the country schoolhouses of Texas' rural past. Sources include interviews with dozens of former country schoolteachers and students and first-person narratives collected from written works. Chapters cover the following topics: (1) history of public education and country schools in Texas; (2) distance travelled by teachers and…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Consolidated Schools, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
Peregrym, Jill; And Others – 1991
Paradigm Case Analysis (PCA) is a method of increasing instructor effectiveness through the gathering of narratives of critical teaching incidents and experiences from proficient instructors and their analysis in group discussions. Critical Incidents (CI's) may include those in which the instructor's intervention made a significant difference in…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Critical Incidents Method
Camp, William G.; Heath-Camp, Betty – 1991
The induction process for vocational education teachers was examined in a research study. A literature review indicated a growing research base illuminating the induction problems, successes, and needs of beginning teachers and other research proposing a general theory of human development. Major research activities included nominal group…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, Case Studies, Demonstration Programs
Sweeney, Dennis – 1991
This paper investigates the reasons why teachers change teaching jobs, focusing on movements of teachers between rather than within districts. The dataset traces the careers of full-time Michigan public school teachers during the 1970s. To build the regression models, a discrete-time maximum likelihood method was used. The study is restricted to…
Descriptors: Career Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Labor Turnover, Longitudinal Studies
Blackbourn, Richard – 1983
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between teachers' perceptions of instructional evaluations by principals and their attitudes toward the supervisory conference. It also sought to determine whether teachers' attitudes are affected by six different variables: race, age, sex, years of teaching, level of assignment, and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Age, Communication Problems, Educational Development
Stier, William F., Jr. – 1983
A study of the status of physical education and athletics programs in two-year colleges was part of a followup to an earlier national study conducted in 1971. Questionnaires were sent to a national sample of 300 institutions; 174 (58 percent) were returned. Data on the size of physical education departments, type of school governance, size of…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Athletic Coaches, Athletics, College Curriculum
Landers, Thomas J.; Martin, David S. – 1983
A program has been developed at Gallaudet College (District of Columbia) which provides a B.A. degree and regular teacher certification for hearing impaired or deaf students. The focus is exclusively on "regular" education, and its expressed intent is to prepare hearing impaired preservice teachers for full certification in regular…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Problems, Deafness, Employment Opportunities
Goodman, Jesse – 1984
A study was made of an early field practicum, in elementary education, which theoretically emphasized quantity and diversity in the students' field experiences and allowed them the opportunity to apply newly acquired curriculum methods and theories. Ten student teachers were intensively interviewed and observed over a six month period. It was…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary School Curriculum, Experiential Learning, Field Experience Programs
Kelly, Brian; Kelly, Noeline – 1983
Feedback was sought on the student teaching experience from student teachers, cooperating teachers, and university supervisors. Findings indicated: (1) All parties agreed on the worth of the experience; (2) Student teachers disagreed with university supervisors on the worth of required seminars, format of lesson plans, and time allotted to student…
Descriptors: Cooperating Teachers, Higher Education, Participant Satisfaction, Preservice Teacher Education
Pages: 1  |  ...  |  966  |  967  |  968  |  969  |  970  |  971  |  972  |  973  |  974  |  ...  |  1035