This book offers strategies for high school teachers that provide tools for creating, repairing, and tweaking all the discernible components of teaching. The book is organized to move from context to teaching to discipline to thriving in teaching. The book includes tips on how to minimize discipline problems with effective curriculum and sound…

Creating learning environments and learning experiences for students has always been at the heart of student affairs work. This document is intended to provide guidelines, titled "Principles of Good Practice," as to how student affairs can advance student learning, and it serves as a framework to aid student affairs in meeting challenges…

This paper provides an overview of the IT (Instructional Technology) Clinical graduate course at Virginia Tech and compares the perceived reality of the Clinical experience, in terms of benefits and concerns, with students' initial expectations. The paper begins with a discussion of the IT Clinical plan, the sociology of the learning environment…

Describes a study which explored the relationship between sex role perceptions of physical educators and their attitudes/expectations regarding female participation and performance in various physical activities. Also examines sex of teachers versus teachers' self-definition of their sex role as a determinant of curriculum objectives valued.…

Sex, body size, several sociocultural variables, and status rank were measured in mixed-sex small groups. The intervening sociocultural variables explained some but not all of the interrelationships. Results underscore the empirical vulnerability of social-psychological explanations of sex-role behavior and signal the need for further research.…

Explores questions regarding the knowledge and proficiency level expected of second-language learners, the acquisition of valued knowledge, the relationship between cognition and language learning, the nature of "progress," and quality curriculum design. These questions are discussed in reference to the development in Australia of the…

Promotes teacher training and culturally sensitive curricula to help alleviate the discrepancy between low-teacher and high-student expectations for student academic success. (YKH)

A survey of about 20,000 college and university faculty and institutions in countries around the world investigated mobility patterns, preferences for research and/or teaching, international scholarly activities, attitudes about teaching, activities related to their roles as teachers, and expectations of students. Attitudes of United States…

Goodness of fit is the compatibility between a child's temperament and his or her environment. When temperament is recognized, respected, and accommodated by creating complementary classroom environments and situations, healthy social and personality development occurs. Compatibility between the child and the demands and expectations of teachers…

Sexual stereotypes and bias are prevalent in U.S. public schools. The paper presents samples of common biased behavior by teachers and offers a quiz for teachers to determine whether they are guilty of gender bias. Suggestions for exposing and changing gender-biased behavior and resources for further information are included. (SM)

Examines factors having a bearing on boy/girl performance in second-language classes in the United Kingdom. Findings indicate that boys attach less importance to learning a foreign language than girls do; girls are more conscientious about their schoolwork than boys are; expectations for boys and girls are different; and students value the…

Reviews the literature on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to show that the complex social phenomena within the classroom have been, and still are, essential in the origination and implementation of the category ADHD (though the classroom context is virtually absent from most causal analysis, with the focus more on biological…

What was unique about the Mexican American experience in Fort Collins (Colorado) was the extent to which the Great Western Sugar Company colonized Mexican workers. They lived in Mexican colonies, separate neighborhoods, or remote locations on sugar beet farms. In public schools, Mexican Americans were perceived as intellectually inferior and were…

Describes a public school model that gives historically underserved urban and rural middle schoolers an improved chance at college and life. KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program) uses a five-pillar plan that focuses on: more time in school; choice and commitment by teachers, parents, and students; power to lead for the school leader; high expectations…

Six gifted African American students (grades 4-5) were bused to a predominately white school and then returned to their predominately African American school. Students identified 6 of 16 teachers as effective. Ineffective teachers were described as having a lack of understanding of African American culture resulting in low academic expectations.…