In 1998, the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) launched an ambitious effort to create on-line science courses for K-12 educators that would immerse them in exciting science topics and give them access to the Museum's scientific resources (scientists, research, expeditions, collections, and exhibitions). This project, called Seminars on…

The rapid education transformation in South African education over the past decade (1994-current), forced Institutions of Higher Learning to critically examine their own practices. The transformation of the post apartheid South African education system is largely driven and determined by a social and economic agenda. At institutions of higher…

In this article, the author wants to bury inservice and all of the outdated practices that go with it such as "delivery of professional development," "training," "staff development programs," "professional development activities," and "ippy dippys." She wants to bury them so deep that no educator will ever again use them to describe the learning…

The staff development teacher facilitates the evolution of a school-based professional learning community focused on improving teaching and learning by being a catalyst for teacher change and reflection. These teacher leaders needed the knowledge and skills to transform individual school staffs into professional learning communities focused on…

For principals to help teachers improve the quality of their instructions, this author suggests that judgmental attitudes must be completely eradicated. In the place of evaluation, non-directive supervisory conferencing is suggested. This article describes the technique. (Editor)

Questions the arguments for or against tenure which ignore the issue of accountability and its relationship to faculty development. (Author/PG)

THE STATUS OF TEACHERS' VOWEL PHONICS COMPETENCIES SINCE THE PERIOD 1957-58, THE REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN TEACHERS' KNOWLEDGE OF VOWEL PHONICS GENERALIZATIONS, AND TEACHERS' UNDERSTANDING OF THESE GENERALIZATIONS WERE INVESTIGATED. THE ARRON VOWEL PHONICS TEST WAS ADMINISTERED TO 198 GRADUATE STUDENTS AT OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY, CORVALLIS, OREGON,…

This document gives examples of seven steps a classroom teacher can take to improve both instructional and learning objectives. This improvement is to be measured by increased student learning. The seven steps are as follows: a) write a simple behavioral objective, b) edit, c) revise objective to make it learner centered, d) clarify, e) evaluate…

A short course designed to assist trainers in solving some of the problems they face transmitting knowledge to students is described. (EC)

Effective communication is the key to holding successful administrator-teacher conferences. To improve the communication process and make conferences more effective, administrators should recognize teacher strengths and capitalize on them. Includes 11 references. (Author/MD)

A special education professor left his university post to return to the classroom as a substitute teacher. Although it was a difficult experience, he acknowledges its benefits in giving him a "real world" perspective. (CL)

The purpose of this paper is to examine what is known, and not known, about competencies for the clinical supervisor--sources and methodologies for identifying competencies, competency statements and their formulation, and the issues and problems being encountered and investigated. (Author/RK)