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Alcazar, Al – JCT: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1995
Emphasizes the importance of helping students develop a sense of moral and spiritual value, undoing the violence that they have been taught in schools over the years and teaching them in a creative, rigorous manner about peace and the lives and works of prophets, peacemakers, feminists, and earth keepers. (SM)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Conferences, Consciousness Raising, Cultural Awareness
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Petersen, Ruth – TechTrends, 2000
Describes NASA's Learning Technologies Project at the Glenn Research Center (Cleveland, Ohio) that conducts research into enhancing elementary and secondary school science and mathematics classrooms through videoconferencing technology. Discusses teachers' professional development videoconferences; distance learning; student videoconferences;…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education
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Henning, Elizabeth – Teaching and Teacher Education, 2000
Ethnographic study describes the professional development of seven unlicensed or nonqualified teachers involved in a community teacher education project in two informal settlement community schools near Johannesburg, South Africa. Data from observations and interviews highlight the teachers' initiative in pursuing their own professional…
Descriptors: Black Students, Black Teachers, Community Involvement, Developing Nations
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Roth, Wolff-Michael; Masciotra, Domenico; Boyd, Nadely – Teaching and Teacher Education, 1999
Discusses how co-teaching is useful for teaching important aspects of teaching to preservice educators, presenting an episode of masterful questioning from a study about teaching and learning in a science classroom co-taught by an experienced science teacher and a preservice teacher completing an internship. Their work suggests that preservice…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Grade 7, Higher Education, Intermediate Grades
Wilson, Suzanne M.; Darling-Hammond, Linda; Berry, Barnett – American Educator, 2001
Describes Connecticut's ongoing school reform efforts, which began around 1985. The reform process involves creating, supporting, and revising a coherent set of policies for improving teacher learning that are also aligned with standards for students. Planning includes state department staff in collaboration with teachers and principals. The state…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Cooperative Planning, Educational Change
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Jeanpierre, Bobby; Oberhauser, Karen; Freeman, Carol – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2005
We studied the outcome of a professional development opportunity that consisted of 2-week-long resident institutes for teams consisting of a secondary science teacher and two students. The science content of the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded professional development institute was monarch butterfly ecology. The first institute took place…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Science Teachers, Teacher Improvement, Teaching Methods
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Mulholland, Judith; Wallace, John – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2005
Pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) is a much debated and studied construct. In this article, we adopt an all-embracing view of PCK to examine the development of one elementary science teacher's knowledge over a 10-year period. We portray this teacher's knowledge at three critical points in her career--as a student teacher, beginning teacher, and…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Teacher Characteristics, Figurative Language, Student Teachers
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Stotsky, Sandra – Brookings Papers on Education Policy, 2004
Teacher quality, however defined, is usually seen as the responsibility of schools of education. Rarely is it viewed as the responsibility of academic departments in the arts and sciences--that part of college or university where prospective teachers study the academic content they will draw on as teachers. Only recently has teacher quality come…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Change, State Departments of Education, State Regulation
Featherstone, Helen; And Others – 1995
As reformers urge elementary and secondary school teachers to teach mathematics in new ways that highlight problem solving and engage students in important mathematical ideas, researchers have been pointing out that few public school teachers know mathematics in the ways that they would need to know it in order to teach in these new ways. These…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary School Mathematics, Faculty Development, Grade 2
Asselin, Susan B.; Frantz, Nevin R. – 1995
In an effort to support the public schools' initiatives to develop effective schools for all students, particularly those who are work bound, the College of Education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University instituted a graduate program aimed at preparing collaborative instructional leaders. The major goal of the program was to…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Educational Cooperation, Graduate Study, Masters Degrees
Brookfield, Stephen D. – 1995
This book is a practical guide for teachers at the postsecondary level to improve their teaching by utilizing the principles of adult learning and becoming critically reflective teachers. Chapter 1 lays out the concept of reflection in general terms and then focuses on explaining what is distinctive about critical reflection. Chapter 2 explains…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Autobiographies, Classroom Environment, College Faculty
Imants, J. G. M.; Tillema, H. H. – 1995
The aim of this paper is to develop a dynamic view of training and professional development of teachers, focusing particularly on the training of less effective and innovative teachers and on the relationship between teachers' self-efficacy and teacher learning. Teachers' self-efficacy is regarded as the extent to which teachers expect they can…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries
Borgia, Eileen T.; Schuler, Dorothy – 1996
Action research is an approach to professional development and improved student learning in which teachers systematically reflect on their work, seek feedback from colleagues, and make changes in their practice. Several benefits of action research have been cited: (1) teachers investigate their own practice in a new way, looking at what children…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Research, Critical Thinking, Data Collection
Organization for Cooperation in Overseas Development, (St. Lucia). – 1992
This manual for volunteer teachers from Canada traveling to the West Indies to assist host governments with improving their teachers' skills describes the organization sponsoring the teachers, the nature of the volunteers' duties, and practical aspects of the stay abroad. Two opening sections describe the Organization for Cooperation in Overseas…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Improvement
Buckley, Helen; Walters, Gene – 1994
Sample components of the Comprehensive Teacher Training Programme (CTTP), a distance education program offering four academic upgrading courses to Caribbean women who are untrained elementary school teachers are presented. Though the bulk of the publication is made up of materials from these distance education courses, the opening section contains…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Distance Education, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
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