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Cheng, May May-Hung – Teacher Development, 2005
The field experience component in the four-year Bachelor of Education programme (Primary) at The Hong Kong Institute of Education offers a number of opportunities for students to observe or teach in a school. The aim of this article is to analyse the learning of the student-teachers and the supporting teachers during the field experience period in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Opportunities, Professional Development
Cheung, Elizabeth – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2005
Changes that occur in teachers' careers are typically conceptualized in research as occurring in several demarcated and sequential stages/phases. This study examines secondary schoolteachers' understandings of their careers and whether they could identify stages/phases in their career development. It is based on experienced teachers' recall of…
Descriptors: Careers, Foreign Countries, Career Development, Teaching (Occupation)
Garcia-Nevarez, Ana G.; Stafford, Mary E.; Arias, Beatriz – Bilingual Research Journal, 2005
This study focused on the attitudes that elementary teachers have toward their English language learner (ELL) students' native languages (e.g., Spanish) and their use in instruction. A 27-item Likert-scale survey was administered to 152 first- through fourth-grade teachers from five school districts in Maricopa County, Arizona. These school…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Spanish Speaking, English (Second Language)
Browne, Jeffrey C.; Schmidt, Jeffrey K.; Lemke, Melissa – Public Policy Forum, 2007
This is the 9th annual report on conditions affecting the Racine Unified School District RUSD). Over the past decade, the conditions affecting the district as well as the school outcomes have changed in some ways and remained stable in others. This analysis compares RUSD to nine peer school districts and the state of Wisconsin. RUSD peer…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, Public Schools, Comparative Analysis
Carreker, Suzanne H.; Neuhaus, Graham F.; Swank, Paul R.; Johnson, Paul; Monfils, Mary Jo; Montemayor, Mary Lou – Reading Psychology, 2007
A longitudinal investigation determined the growth of reading comprehension from third to fifth grades in a cohort of students who received Language Enrichment (LE), an Orton-Gillingham-based literacy program, during first and second grades. The LE instruction was provided by regular education teachers who received comprehensive training in…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Longitudinal Studies, Grade 3, Grade 4
Meyers, Steven A.; Bender, James; Hill, Erin K.; Thomas, Shantha Y. – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2006
We present descriptive data about the nature and correlates of classroom conflict using a national sample of 226 faculty members. We differentiated two different types of conflict, inattentive versus hostile, in our survey. Levels of conflict were not associated with instructors' demographic traits or characteristics of their courses, but were…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, College Faculty, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
Krebs, Marjori M. – Online Submission, 2006
The purpose of this dissertation is to describe the essence of the service-learning experience for K-12 teachers in central and northwest Ohio, specifically exploring teacher motivations for initiating service-learning in the classroom. Service-learning is defined as an educational methodology that incorporates student preparation, service to the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Teacher Motivation, Teaching Methods, Student Participation
Athanases, Steven Z. – Multicultural Education, 2006
The purpose of this study is to strengthen teachers' knowledge of multicultural literature for use with high school students in a highly diverse, high needs urban school district through a university-schools partnership. A core English group of 15-20 members of a university-schools partnership met in monthly department-based and periodic…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Teaching Experience, Literature, Group Discussion
Kim, Chankook; Fortner, Rosanne W. – Journal of Environmental Education, 2006
To explore issue-specific barriers to teaching environmental issues, the authors investigated secondary science teachers' perceived current and preferred teaching levels for 23 environmental issues and perceived barriers to teaching the selected issues. Subjects in this graduate project were 41 secondary science teachers self-selected to answer a…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Science Teachers, Teacher Surveys, Teacher Attitudes
LaBoskey, Vicki Kubler – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2006
The purpose of the study reported upon in this paper was to determine what graduates of a teacher education program designed to prepare teachers who will work toward goals of equity and social justice were encountering in their schools and how they felt they were doing with regard to these aims and why. Eleven graduates in their second, fourth or…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Teacher Education Programs, Standardized Tests, Educational Objectives
Collinson, Vivienne – 1994
Research indicates that exemplary teachers share various characteristics, including a desire for continuous renewal. This book reports on a study to investigate exemplary teachers' personal and professional renewal throughout their career and selected factors that have enabled and/or constrained their renewal. The study involved six participants;…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
Zhang, Zhicheng; Burry-Stock, Judy – 1995
This study investigated inservice teachers' assessment competency as a function of measurement training and years of teaching. Data were collected from 311 teachers on a 67-item Assessment Practices Inventory (API). Seven composite scores were formed based on the underlying dimensions from a principal factor analysis. A 2x3 MANOVA was conducted to…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Assessment, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
Selke, Mary J. – 1994
A constructivist practitioner's masters program in professional development (PDMA) was designed and piloted at the University of Northern Iowa. The program provides an option for pursuing a master's in education structured upon the following constructivism-focused framework of components: (1) the program is designed for experienced educators, and…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Retter, Jane S. – 1996
This report describes the Educational Testing Service professional development/assessment system for student and beginning teachers, "Pathwise," a classroom observation instrument, as used in the California Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment Program (BTSA) for teacher education. Three themes were noted by "Pathwise" users…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Constructivism (Learning), Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Boe, Erling E.; Cook, Lynne H.; Bobbitt, Sharon A.; Weber, Anita L. – 1996
This study used existing databases to analyze, from a national perspective, the turnover of special education teachers (SETs) at the district level due to district migration, teaching field transfer, and exit attrition. The study also investigated district retention of SETs as a function of district location and teacher experience. The study used…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Mobility, Labor Turnover