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SRI International, Menlo Park, CA. – 2002
This report discusses trends in California's teaching force for 2002: shortage of qualified teachers (e.g., the shortage varies across different subjects and is expected to worsen due to teacher retirements and growth in numbers of students); getting good teachers (e.g., California's underprepared teachers continue to be inequitably distributed…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Beginning Teacher Induction, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development
Mok, Yan Fung; Kwong, Tsz Man – 1999
This study investigated the effects of school-level and individual-level factors influencing the participation and nonparticipation of secondary school teachers in continuing professional education (CPE). Researchers randomly selected 25 out of Hong Kong's 442 secondary schools to participate. All teachers in the schools were invited to complete a…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Educational Environment, Foreign Countries, Graduate Study
Rothenberg, Julia Johnson; McDermott, Peter C.; Gormley, Kathleen – 1999
This paper discusses research on teacher preparation and teaching in diverse settings, using data from questionnaires about various courses and components of one teacher education program. Student teachers completed questionnaires before and after student teaching, and cooperating teachers completed them at the end of student teaching. All student…
Descriptors: Cooperating Teachers, Cooperating Teachers, Cultural Differences, Diversity (Student)
American Federation of Teachers, Washington, DC. – 1999
This publication presents papers given at a 1998 joint meeting of the American Federation of Teachers and National Education Association which focused on teacher quality. One common thread of this conference was criticism of the growing practice of granting emergency certification to unprepared or underprepared teachers. The papers address how to…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality
American Federation of Teachers, Washington, DC. – 1999
This publication discusses how unions work to ensure teacher quality. Section 1, "The Union Role in Assuring Teacher Quality" presents the American Federation of Teachers convention resolution adopted on July 19, 1998. It explains the context of teacher quality; the teacher development continuum and the need for change (preservice…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, Educational Improvement
Hindle, Doug – 1996
This document, the fourth in a series on diversity in the classroom, supports the belief that challenges faced by teachers working with diverse students can only be met through teacher practices that increase levels of positive teacher-student interaction and that create, in each student, effective social and problem solving skills. Section 1,…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Democratic Values, Discipline
Mizukami, Maria da Graca Nicoletti; Reali, Aline Maria de Medeiros Rodrigues; Reyes, Claudia Raimundo; Martucci, Elizabeth Marcia; de Lima, Emilia Freitas; Tancredi, Regina Maria Simoes Puccinelli; de Mello, Roseli Rodrigues – 2000
This paper examines collaborative research by a Brazilian public university and public elementary school, highlighting a thematic program of applied research and teaching that addressed improvement in teaching and learning quality through inservice teacher education. The project was designed to build a knowledge base of teacher learning and…
Descriptors: Action Research, College School Cooperation, Educational Quality, Elementary Education
Raymond, Hilary C. – 2000
The purpose of this study was to investigate six preservice teachers' understandings of the theory and practice of teaching and learning foreign languages during their course work and field experiences in a teacher education program. The participants in the study were full-time students in a year-long graduate-level program. This paper focuses on…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnography, Field Experience Programs
Reynolds, Annie – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1925
Rural supervision is a comparatively new field in education. Therefore its method and practice are not definitely formulated; and supervisors at work, as well as those educators who are formulating courses in the subject, have learned and are learning in part through their own experience and that of others. For this reason they are eager to…
Descriptors: Rural Education, School Supervision, Rural Schools, Supervisors
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Owens, William T. – Social Studies, 1997
Analyzes data from a questionnaire addressing preservice elementary teachers' negative attitudes toward social studies. Identifies and discusses six categories of concern: negative past experiences; lack of personal interest; confusion over the nature of social studies; conflicting beliefs; topic selection; and traditional teaching styles. (MJP)
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Curriculum Development, Educational Research
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Conca, Lydia – Journal of Staff Development, 1996
Evaluation frames offer a practical, adaptable site-based staff development approach that serves as a vehicle for clarifying needs and planning. Evaluation frames within staff development empower teachers to define and design innovations around their unique experiences. The paper describes the method and presents a sample staff development…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Elementary School Teachers
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Wolf, Kenneth; And Others – Action in Teacher Education, 1995
Discusses the use of teaching portfolios and portfolio-based conversations with colleagues to enhance teacher effectiveness, presenting a portfolio conversation guide that highlights the importance of conducting the sessions properly, organizing an appropriate group, and focusing on specific portfolio contents. Implications for teacher education…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
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Wheelock, Anne – Journal of Staff Development, 1995
A unique, successful staff development program in three Louisville (Kentucky) middle schools provides opportunities for teachers of disadvantaged students to build pedagogical skills. The High5 Project promotes strategies for realizing high expectations, content, support, energy, and involvement. The paper examines change strategies and discusses…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Teachers, High Risk Students
Dubin, Andrew – School of Education Review, 1992
Describes the development of a successful, specialized, collaborative training program created by the San Francisco Unified School District and San Francisco State University to produce more effective educational leaders for urban schools, thus improving student achievement and enhancing educational environments. (SM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Effectiveness, Change Strategies, College School Cooperation
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LePage, Pamela; Boudreau, Sharon; Maier, Stacy; Robinson, John; Cox, Heather – Teaching and Teacher Education, 2001
Explored relationships between school and college faculty, in the context of graduate school and as colleagues collaborating to improve children's education. Data from dialogic inquiry, interviews, and surveys indicated that the collaborative, reciprocal process of struggling to understand inconsistencies created as they worked to transform…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College School Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development
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