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Pena, Dely; Mitchell, Deborah – NEA Higher Education Research Center Update, 2000
This issue is excerpted from The American Faculty Poll sponsored by the Teachers Investment Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF) and conducted by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago in 1999. In this survey, 1,511 full-time faculty members from 285 institutions were interviewed. About…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Higher Education, Job Satisfaction, National Surveys
Bratcher, Suzanne, Ed. – Arizona English Bulletin, 1987
Encouraging a professional dialogue among teachers of English, this journal issue focuses on teachers' feelings about their own lives, their classrooms, their students, their specialized knowledge, and their problems. The titles of the essays and their authors, are as follows: (1) "Of Pigs and Stars: A Nebraska Memory" (G. L. Nelson);…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, English Instruction, Literature Appreciation, Periodicals
Crutchfield, Margie – NICHCY News Digest, 1997
This joint publication of the National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities and the National Clearinghouse for Professions in Special Education discusses the characteristics and roles of special education teachers. Topics include: why people become special educators; characteristics of special education teachers, including…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Paraprofessional Personnel, Special Education Teachers
Lambert, Beverley – AECA Resource Book Series, 1994
A number of environmental influences--social, cultural, political, economic, and personal--work against the development of sustained professional practice and a professional self-image in qualified staff in early child care centersin Australia. These influences derive from the low professional status of child care workers, the physical and…
Descriptors: Burnout, Change Strategies, Child Caregivers, Day Care Centers