Many high school classrooms in the United States have physics teachers who are teaching the subject outside their certified content areas because of a severe shortage of physics teachers. There is a critical need to improve the knowledge base of these out-of-field teachers. This comparative case study examined the instructional practice of…

This study sought to determine the beliefs that tenured, in-service high school science teachers hold about how their participation in a large mid-Atlantic university's 6-week summer research experiences for teachers (RET) program might influence their pedagogical practices. The findings show a number of factors that teachers believed helped them…

Understanding the interplay among experience, beliefs, and contexts of teaching in preservice and inservice teachers' learning to teach is crucial to improving teacher quality for diverse populations. This study examined the impact of a summer camp English teaching experience in China on the ideas and practice of two White, middle-class female…

Articles by Grade Teacher's fourth annual summer travel - summer workshop contest winners: Lea Levi, Elsie G. Murray, Elizabeth Dorband, and Emma A. Palminteri.

THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT WAS TO TEST THE EFFECTS OF INVOLVING VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURAL TEACHERS IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND EXPERIMENTAL USE OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS. A GROUP OF 16 TEACHERS AT A SUMMER WORKSHOP PARTICIPATED IN PLANNING THE CONTENT AND DESIGN FOR 13 OVERHEAD PROJECTION MASTERS AND MADE PLANS FOR USING THEM EXPERIMENTALLY. THE…

This article discusses themes used in summer inservice workshops to develop the skills and confidence of elementary school teachers providing science instruction to gifted students. The article notes the value of hands-on activities, letting children explore, focusing on process skills, and the teacher's role as facilitator. (Author/DB)

This booklet is one of a series of teacher-written curriculum publications launched by the Bay Area Writing Project (BAWP), each focusing on a different aspect of the teaching of composition. In it a college professor presents a personal narrative of his experience in a BAWP summer institute and how he applied the techniques learned at the…

Describes the Live, Learn and Teach program, an eight-day wilderness experience in New Hampshire's White Mountains, designed to develop student teacher relations. It includes six weeks of curriculum-design sessions and a practicum in which teaching teams experiment with new skills and behaviors as they design and carry out an activity-centered and…

Forty-two teachers and supervisors, selected by the Texas Education Agency, participated in a 2-week workshop designed to provide an intensive study of the disadvantaged and to increase the effectiveness of teachers of culturally disadvantaged youth, primarily in the area of occupational training. Scholars in the fields of sociology and psychology…

Describes a whole-language, interdisciplinary summer program for school and college teachers. From hands-on exploration and reading and writing about self-selected topics, participants learned to understand theory and practice of whole-language instruction and to explore implications for their own teaching. (SM)

The California Mathematics Project was established in 1982 by the California State Legislature as one of several statewide responses to a widespread perception among educators and the public at large that the mathematical competence of American children has deteriorated. This report describes an attempt to evaluate the first year's work of one…

This report delineates the step-by-step process of planning, holding, and following-up the 1978 Summer Invitational Workshop on Teaching Writing held by the Southeast Center for the Teaching of Writing (SCTW) for teachers at the elementary through the college level. The various sections of the report contain a description of the SCTW, its…

The authors describe the journey they undertook integrating the arts into the summer institute. The central reason for their focus on the arts in the summer institute is the desire to support education reform--with a particular eye to social justice in schools. The authors believe that when the field is open wide enough to allow everyone's ideas…

We studied the outcome of a professional development opportunity that consisted of 2-week-long resident institutes for teams consisting of a secondary science teacher and two students. The science content of the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded professional development institute was monarch butterfly ecology. The first institute took place…