The Innovative Teaching Group (ITG) at Cleveland State University, committed to novel and untried teaching methods, has organized papers from the faculty and other resource people into an anthology on teaching. After the general introduction, the contents are divided into three parts: Insights and Issues at Large; Strategies and Tactics in…

A suggested plan for improving the training of teachers for urban schools includes inservice and on-the-job activities, with both apprentice teachers and experienced teachers involved. The plan, extending a full year, would require cooperation between a university or teacher education institution and one or more cooperating school systems. Each…

A 4-week Sequenced Peer Teaching program for experienced faculty members of Ohlone College (California) was designed to bring faculty together for the development and/or improvement of teaching. The program included the teaching of a sequence of assignments by individual participants to a class of peers. The teaching was video-taped and replayed…

The Doctor of Arts degree has aroused interest both as a means to improve the graduate preparation of college teachers and as an alternative to the research orientation attributed to the Ph.D. degree. The Association of American Colleges therefore appointed a special committee to advise its Commission on Institutional Affairs on the implications…

Impressions, observations, and conclusions about the conference on the teaching of English at the University of York in England are given in this brief report. Among the conclusions reached by the British and American participants are: (1) of primary and immediate importance is the construction of a model for organizing effective language-centered…

This paper argues that the present system of teacher certification in New York State fails to adequately identify criteria for competency and suggests ways to improve this situation. The writer states that too much emphasis has been placed on the means by which certification is achieved while too little emphasis has been placed on the goal of…

This report comprises a collection of summaries of exploratory efforts by college professors at member institutions of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) to develop new and better ways of teaching. Usually these are local experiments aimed at improving the conditions for learning in a specific subject-matter area, but many of the…

This report provides an initial overview of the Model Teacher Training System, the development of which is a major goal of the Program on Teaching Effectiveness of the Stanford Center for Research and Development in Teaching. Detailed explication of its development will be presented in subsequent reports. Separate presentations will be prepared…

During 1967-1970, 9 faculty members from each of 2 developing institutions (Freed-Hardeman College and Lane College) engaged in a research development program that sought to train 1 person in research methodology and to offer concurrently an in-service training program to the other 8. Each group met every 2 weeks each academic year for a 2-hour…

The West Tennessee Research Development Consortium was formed to increase research potential of Freed-Hardeman College at Henderson and Lane College at Jackson. The Consortium consisted of a proposal and project designed (1) to train in research methodology 1 person on each of the 2 campuses, and (2) to offer concurrently an in-service training…

The primary objective of the Federally Assisted Staff Training (FAST) programs for the 1970-71 academic year was to improve the classroom learning environment in participating Title I schools by expanding the ability of teachers to direct their own improvement by using techniques such as interaction analysis, micro-teaching, and student feedback.…

Prompted by the current debate over tenure, the spread of teacher's unions, and the concern of legislators for providing a uniform teaching load in institutions of public higher education, there seems to be great interest in the whole area of faculty evaluation, as well as in the improvement of college and university teaching. The central purpose…

This report evaluates "A Program for the Orientation and Induction of New Teachers" workshop (POINT) Developed by the District of Columbia Public School System. Forty-one elementary school teachers participated in the POINT workshop designed to develop and upgrade the professional staff. The focus is placed on developing a strategy to prevent "new…

The aims of this paper are a) to examine teacher education in terms of contemporary economic and societal forces, b) to develop a precise statement about the current state of teacher education, and c) to describe a socio-psychological theory of socialization to the role of teacher having broad application to teacher education. The study was based…

This paper details an effort at the graduate inservice level to utilize schools and school settings as a base for theory building and conceptual growth for the individual teacher. Three basic assumptions support this effort. First, the position is taken that the most effective educational program for children is one that grows out of and is guided…