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Q & A with Ed Tech Leaders: Interview with Robert Talbert
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Shaughnessy, Michael F.; Yan, Juchao – Educational Technology, 2015
In this regular feature of "Educational Technology," Michael F. Shaughnessy and Juchao Yan present their interview with Robert Talbert, Associate Professor, Mathematics Department, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan. Their interview centered around thirteen questions that professor Talbert provided enlightening responds…
Descriptors: Interviews, Educational Technology, Instructional Leadership, Technology Uses in Education
Conflict and Consensus: How Composition Scholars View Their Discipline.
Chapman, David W. – ADE Bulletin, 1987
Presents the results of a survey of several freshman composition instructors who offer their opinions of teaching writing and empirical research into the writing process. Notes the problems with such research, as well as the problems of overburdened composition teachers who receive little recognition. (JC)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Content Analysis, Freshman Composition, Surveys
How Much Freedom Should Student Teachers Be Given? A College Supervisor's Response.
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Ferry, Richard E. – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 1980
An experienced student teacher supervisor offers some beneficial information for those in and entering the field of education, including the advice to let student teachers do as much as they are able to do and as much as the cooperating teacher is willing to give up. (KC)
Descriptors: Cooperating Teachers, Educational Philosophy, Individual Differences, Opinions
Workshop Approach Frees Teachers, Makes Students Independent Writers.
Parker, John F. – Highway One, 1985
Describes how a workshop format in a composition class lessened the teacher's workload and provided students with additional learning experiences. (DF)
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Teaching Load, Teaching Methods
Rural Roots, Urban Harvest, and Giving Back to the Land. Occasional Paper No. 8
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Schmidt, Martina – Appalachian Collaborative Center for Learning, Assessment, and Instruction in Mathematics, Ohio University (ACCLAIM), 2004
This paper is the personal journey of one teacher from a rural childhood, through a small university, to a rural school, and eventually to the city. It contrasts the intense challenges that rural teachers and students face with the unique opportunities afforded them by virtue of being rural. It includes an attempt to piece together the factors…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Rural Areas, Rural Schools, Teaching Methods
According to Whom? Helping Students Analyze Contrasting Views of Reality.
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Wolff, Mary Anne – Educational Leadership, 1986
Recommends the frame of reference method in helping students learn to recognize bias in the questions an author asks, the evidence gathered, and the conclusions drawn. Describes a high school writing-anthropology unit on the Kung San society. Discusses the potentials, problems, and school-linked constraints in using frame of reference models. (IW)
Descriptors: Anthropology, Bias, Classroom Techniques, Critical Reading
Understanding What It Means to Be a Teacher.
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Duke, Daniel L. – Educational Leadership, 1986
A professor of education returns to the elementary classroom as a teacher's aide and learns that administrators can support teachers by (1) working to eliminate fragmentation in daily routines, (2) protecting teachers from overextension, (3) focusing more on individual students, (4) promoting teacher collegiality, and (5) fashioning a school…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Interschool Communication