NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 10 results Save | Export
Jeffrey J. Kuenzi – Congressional Research Service, 2024
The K-12 teacher workforce is relatively large--each year, nearly 4 million teachers are employed in U.S. elementary and secondary schools. Turnover in these schools is high relative to earlier periods--16% of teachers left their school in the 2021-2022 academic year. In addition, there is evidence that teacher quality standards have been lowered…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Labor Turnover, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Recruitment
Pew, Gail; And Others – 1971
This paper indicates eight problems faced by the teaching teams at Fremont Junior High School, including insufficient planning, lack of trust and openness, lack of correlation within the teams, inadequate assessment of pupil needs, insufficient change in teacher behavior, uneven level of total staff commitment toward the school, self-contained…
Descriptors: Differentiated Staffs, Interpersonal Relationship, Junior High Schools, Models
Abel, Frederick P. – 1975
On-site evaluation visitations were made to seven institutions participating in fiscal year 1974 Education Professions Development Act (EPDA) 553 and 554 cooperative arrangement programs under the auspices of the Illinois Division of Vocational and Technical Education. A three-part evaluation instrument was designed and administered to project…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Evaluation Criteria, Postsecondary Education, Professional Continuing Education
Collier, Richard E.; Hasler, Robert K. – 1971
The 1971 school year was the first year of full operation of the Lackawanna State University College Undergraduate Urban Teacher Education Program (UUTEP). Instead of thrusting college students into full responsibility, it provides for a sequential development of expertise under the guidance and direction of experienced teachers. This UUTEP…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, College Students, Graduation Requirements, Program Descriptions
Illinois State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Springfield. – 1974
This three-chapter document concerns the problem of finding competent individuals to teach in the community. Chapter 1 describes an Education Professions Development Act (EPDA) project involving lay citizens, professional teachers, students, and educational authorities gathered together to pinpoint the necessities for competent teacher…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Beginning Teachers, Community Involvement
Wilkerson, Doxey A. – 1979
This analysis selectively describes and interprets the main lines and development of the Education Professions Development Act (EPDA). The study attempts to define the intent of Congress in authorizing the EPDA, to outline and explain the Office of Education's structures and actions in implementing the Act, and to chronicle the development and the…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Educational Policy, Federal Regulation, Government Role
Midwest Center/Consortium for Planned Change in Pupil Personnel Programs for Urban Schools, Bloomington, IN. – 1974
Recognizing the need for improved, more flexible, more reality-based training for pupil personnel workers, the Division of Foundations and Human Behavior, Indiana University, in conjunction with the Department of Counseling and Guidance, formed a relationship with the Indianapolis Public Schools in order to seek out methods of improving PPS…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Involvement, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Improvement
Illinois Univ., Chicago. Coll. of Education. – 1974
The Chicago Satellite, as a member of the EPDA Midwest Center Consortium, sought to create the EPDA's "New Professional" by retraining in-service teachers and school staff.The University of Illinois at Chicago Circle's College of Education and the Department of Educational Psychology at the Urbana campus are working in conjunction with…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Counselor Training, Disadvantaged Youth, Inservice Education
National Advisory Council on Education Professions Development, Washington, DC. – 1976
The National Advisory Council on Education Professions Development was established by law to review federal programs for the training and development of education personnel and report its findings and recommendations to the President and to Congress. In 1975, the council held four meetings. The first resulted in 15 recommendations concerning…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Certification, Consumer Economics, Educational Development
Harris, Robert C.; And Others – 1976
A project was conducted to provide in-service education to meet the specific interests and needs of the highest level vocational administrators associated with secondary, post-secondary, and Division of Vocational Education agencies in Indiana. The specific objectives were (1) to examine concepts of leadership relative to administration and…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrators, Consortia, Cooperative Planning