This report examines international research and current educational publications about teacher workload and related stress. Workload issues have been a concern for Canadian teachers and teacher unions during recent years, with British Columbia's teachers reporting the highest stress levels nationwide. Teachers must juggle diverse, intense types of…

Program designed to train residents, interns and medical students for careers in family practice. (IR)

Address presented at the 1969 Seminar in Albuquerque, New Mexico of the Association of Departments of English (ADE), an affiliate of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA). (DS)

A study determined how physical education programs at two-year colleges fit into an overall institutional philosophy with regard to courses and requirements, grades, hours of instruction, and teaching load. (JN)

Describes the purpose of establishing the task force on teaching responsibilities, and outlines the recommended guidelines which called for clear definitions of conditions and components necessary for high quality physics programs. (GA)

Reported is a survey of the initial training of science teachers through the PGCE route. Areas of concern were the pattern of training offered, in terms of subjects being studied; important teaching skills; and general issues to be covered in the initial training. (SK)

Classroom teaching techniques are offered which will help the office education teacher become a more efficient manager of clerical tasks in orderto free more time and energy for "real" teaching. Planning and organization of students' learning activities are the keys. (Author/AJ)

Updates an earlier report to underscore the inadvisability of imposing large sections of freshman composition students on reluctant departments and to promote further discussion of the issues raised by the program. Discusses some of the more controversial implications raised by the program. (RS)

A study was conducted to gain greater understanding of the nature of work of beginning home economics teachers. Their work was characterized by fairly heavy teaching schedules, responsibility for clubs and other extracurricular activities, difficulty with time and classroom management, and limited teaching techniques and ability to plan and…

This article is the second in a two-part series of case studies of sixteen female chief academic officers (CAO) serving in evangelical colleges and universities. The earlier article discussed each administrator's personal and academic background. This continues the reflections of these women regarding their careers, marital status and faith as…

Across the United States, an ever-increasing number of high schools have reevaluated their use of instructional time and have adopted some form of a block schedule. Block scheduling, an innovation grounded in Trump's Flexible Modular Scheduling Design, reorganizes the school day into extended blocks of time, each approximately 70 to 90 minutes.…

Variation in teaching techniques was examined among instructors based on their status (full-time vs. part-time) and educational level (doctorate vs. nondoctorate). To facilitate this study, a survey instrument was developed and distributed to 400 randomly selected faculty members employed at the two largest institutions, Community Colleges X and…