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Tatum, Beverly Daniel – Educational Leadership, 2000
A 2-year demonstration project funded by the Carnegie Corporation investigated combined effects of interventions involving teachers, students, and parents in a small northeastern district with an increasingly diverse population. Teachers examined racial identities and attitudes toward other groups, and designed effective antiracist curricula…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs, Diversity (Student)
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Shen, Jianping – Journal of Educational Research, 1997
Investigated teacher retention and attrition by examining data from the 1990-91 Schools and Staffing Survey and 1991-92 Teacher Followup Survey. Results indicated that teachers with less experience were more likely to move or leave. Empowerment and higher salary were correlated positively with teacher retention. Appreciation of the intrinsic…
Descriptors: Career Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Mobility, Labor Turnover
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Boote, David N. – Journal of Educational Thought/Revue de la Pensee Educative, 2001
Contrasts teacher educators' desires to change student teachers' beliefs and values with their need to foster professional autonomy. Suggests that there exists an unrecognized 'indoctrination dilemma' inherent in preservice teacher education and concludes by pointing to the need for teacher educators to re-examine their intentions. (Contains 29…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Professional Autonomy
Hopping, Linda – Phi Delta Kappan, 2000
The multi-age teams (MATs) at one Georgia middle school fostered continuous, individual student progress unachievable in more conventional classrooms. In MAT groups, assignments to classes were based on students' interests, abilities, performance, and other maturational factors, regardless of chronological age. Opportunities for remediation and…
Descriptors: Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Interdisciplinary Approach, Middle Schools, Mixed Age Grouping
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Rarieya, Jane F. A. – Journal of In-service Education, 2005
Reflective dialogue is still very much an unexplored area in teacher education in Pakistan. This article presents findings of a study that engaged four teachers in the process of reflective dialogue in a school in Karachi, Pakistan. It explores the teachers' response to the process and possible reasons. It also examines the role played by those…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Experience, Reflective Teaching, Group Discussion
Corbett, H. Dickson; Rossman, Gretchen B. – 1988
Teachers in "good" schools often provide considerable input into curriculum decisions and other types of school policies. They are considered to be "empowered." This paper argues that the apparent empowerment of teachers in these situations is actually the opposite: In good schools superordinates do not empower teachers; instead, teachers empower…
Descriptors: Effective Schools Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Organizational Climate, Participative Decision Making
Klecker, Beverly; Loadman, William E. – 1995
The 307 schools funded by the Ohio Venture Capital program were the focus of a study on teacher empowerment. This paper focuses on the method used to maximize survey responses, rather than on the study findings. Data were sought from the building principals and 10,544 classroom teachers to create a "total picture" of the individual…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Incentives, Metaphors
Duhon-Haynes, Gwendolyn M. – 1996
This review of the literature defines the concept of student empowerment, discusses the implications of student empowerment in educational settings, and outlines strategies for facilitating increased empowerment. A definition of "empowerment" as "bringing into a state of belief one's ability to act effectively," is offered and the critical…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Torres, Jose Manuel – 1996
Today's schools are being affected by changes in educational technology and increasing student diversity. In the new education paradigm, schools must prepare all students to think critically, solve problems quickly, and learn continuously. Schools therefore need leaders who can mobilize entire communities to accept and lead change. This paper…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Collegiality, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Environment
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Taguchi, Hillevi Lenz – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2005
This article constitutes an attempt to investigate how student teachers and teacher educators in the context of Swedish early childhood teacher education are invented and reinvented by practices that are inspired by feminist and post-structural thinking. I give examples of practice that explicitly make use of different aspects of the personal,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, Feminism, Postmodernism
Heller, Daniel A. – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2004
Just as the pool of qualified teacher applicants is shrinking and attrition rates are soaring, new standards are making entry into the teaching profession more difficult. Teachers can make sure their school system doesn't get caught in the crunch by implementing the approach from this visionary guide. Daniel A. Heller describes a top-to-bottom…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Personnel Selection, Mentors, Standards
Cardelle-Elawar, Maria; Nevin, Ann I. – Online Submission, 2004
The authors examined a narrative approach that may lead to improvements as faculty develop their skills to use the internet for delivery of instruction. The design of this study relied on an interview process that empowered both researchers to create their own narratives as they constructed their concerns and motivations about online pedagogy. The…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Learning Modules, Online Courses, Teacher Competencies
Caplan-Carbin, Elizabeth – 2003
This paper describes a university German teacher's experience using the file transfer capabilities of the Blackboard Internet tool. The introduction highlights some of the features and advantages of Blackboard. The first section discusses teacher empowerment, noting that the Internet empowers the teacher by providing the wealth of the worlds…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Accessibility (for Disabled), Courseware, Higher Education
Wetzel, David R. – 1999
This position paper presents the STAIRS model for overcoming barriers to teachers as they implement and integrate instructional technology in science classrooms. There are many barriers for teachers in the integration of this technology which include time to learn how to use the technology, adequate hands-on staff development opportunities,…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Policy, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education
Baumbach, Donna – MultiMedia Schools, 1997
Discusses 10 challenges media specialists must overcome to effectively use technology in education. Highlights include people opposed to technology; teacher training to help develop collaborative relationships; establishing and using a comprehensive technology plan; assuming more professional responsibility; and empowerment. (LRW)
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Learning Resources Centers
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