Problems and goals of beginning teachers are the subject of these speeches presented by both experienced and beginning teachers at the 1965 national conference of the National Commission on Teacher Education and Professional Standards. The problems include the differences between teacher expectations and encounters, unrealistic teaching and…

THIS COMPREHENSIVE HANDBOOK EXPLAINS THE MAJOR BENEFITS PROVIDED BY THE NEW YORK CITY TEACHERS' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. PROCEDURES ARE GIVEN FOR CALCULATING RETIREMENT ALLOWANCES UNDER THE VARIOUS PLANS AVAILABLE AND DEATH BENEFITS EITHER BEFORE OR AFTER RETIREMENT. SOCIAL SECURITY PROVISIONS, TAXES ON RETIREMENT INCOME, LOAN PRIVILEGES, WORK AFTER…

TO PROVIDE TEACHERS WITH INFORMATION FOR USE IN NEGOTIATION WITH BOARDS OF EDUCATION, DATA ON FRINGE BENEFITS AND WORKING CONDITIONS FROM 415 OF THE 600 SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN 48 STATES THAT ENROLL AT LEAST 6,000 PUPILS ARE PRESENTED. FRINGE BENEFIT INFORMATION COVERS SICK LEAVE, PERSONAL OR EMERGENCY LEAVE, SABBATICAL LEAVE, SEVERANCE OR TERMINAL…

Explores some issues of adult learning, concentrating on three areas: (1) the conditions under which adults are most likely to learn; (2) strategies that trainers can adopt to enable this to take place; and (3) implications for the training organization sponsor. (Author/JOW)

Principals as change agents must work with teachers to establish a climate conducive to change. Principals should assume an assertive change posture and improve their skills in dealing with various factors influencing change. Teacher discontent with working conditions is a key ingredient in the change process. (MLH)

This article describes the educational situation in Belfast--the divided sympathies on the part of the students, the segregation, the possible hardening of the students. Also considered are the difficulties of teachers in this war situation. (JA)

How training and employment of educators in East Germany compare with conditions in a free country is described. (CB)

Teaching load, academic freedom, student caliber, colleague caliber, and other factors that make up the academic environment determine the effectiveness of faculty. (HS)

The success of classroom activities must always be kept in mind by the teacher. Six important factors explain how to achieve this success. (MF)

The improvement of college teaching rests not on improving the instructors, but on improving the contexts of teaching. (RA)

Lists some of the rewards of being a developmental educator and then discusses the harsh realities of a poor image, lack of institutional support, restrictions on facilities and resources, territorial jealousies of academic personnel, different types of students, and demands by evaluators for miracles. (AYC)

Philadelphia's Parkway Program is an alternative high school featuring great teacher autonomy. Recent reductions in force and teacher reassignment for racial balance led to the discovery that both teachers who had originally selected Parkway and those placed in the program involuntarily wished to remain in the program after experiencing it. (PGD)

Teacher professionalism and educational restructuring have the same goal--to make teachers more responsive to their students. To transform teaching into an authentic profession involves six changes: reforming teacher education and licensing, restructuring schools, reforming unions, improving accountability, and bettering salaries and working…