Describes the development and features of an innovative field experience program, in the form of an internship, for early childhood student teachers, as part of a four-year Bachelor of Education Degree at Australia's University of Newcastle. Discusses participants' perceptions of the internship as a professionalizing experience. (HTH)

The mechanisms by which the health education profession is seeking to promote increased competency, visibility, marketability, and quality among practitioners include professional preparation in health education, certification by examination, and recertification. To clarify key concepts in health education credentialing, the article discusses…

Reports on Leadership Effectiveness Assisted by Peers (LEAP), a large-scale school leadership project within a major (Toronto) school district, and its relationship to other district developments and policies. Considers how these developments are supported by district involvement in an ongoing district-university partnership called the Learning…

This review provides a framework for evaluating professional development programs designed to enhance the education of students with disabilities. Common components of three successful professional development programs are considered, with attention to connecting theory and practice, involving teachers in collaborative and supportive roles, and…

Discussion of new organizational media and media richness theory focuses on a study of professionals in master's degree programs in four countries that examined new media use, including email and voice mail; situation equivocality; media richness and media preference; and cross-national differences and influences. (LRW)

Teacher education demonstrates little affinity with visions of what constitutes teacher competence. The paper examines the education teachers need to help students handle the vicissitudes of the coming century, noting the uses and limits of theory, the school as an educative environment for teachers, and the ecological character of schools. (SM)

Paper uses a British research project on training and career development for postgraduate doctors to analyze and compare the training of doctors in hospitals with preservice teachers in schools. The comparison underlines conceptions of medicine and teaching as practical activities, emphasizing the importance of hands-on experience and field…

Teacher education (TE) refers too infrequently to computer related technology. Much computer-related TE is simulated and delivered by non-teacher educators. The paper discusses the lack of integration between information technology (IT) and TE, noting that synergy rather than fragmentation is needed among people involved with IT and TE. (SM)

Questionnaires were mailed to public school counselors to examine the latter's state of supervision. Although 63% of counselors desired supervision, only 20% were being supervised. This lack of involvement by counselors may indicate confusion in an evolving profession as well as the profession's ambivalent feelings toward supervision. (RJM)

Proposes new forms of teacher leadership emerging in professional development schools. Suggests that teacher leadership is inextricably connected to teacher learning and can be embedded in tasks and roles that do not create artificial, imposed, formal hierarchies; such approaches may lead to greater profession-wide leadership, thereby improving…

Offers advice for administrators on how six laws of human behavior affect employees. Laws discussed include: how employees recreate familial roles in the workplace, how persons constantly seek to gain or maintain control of their lives, how change in a person's environment can cause changes in behavior, and how employees covet tokens of approval.…

The purpose of this article is to provide a rationale for a professional development model and to highlight two features of the model which have been designed to address school improvement needs while concurrently providing professional development opportunities for novice and experienced science educators. The two features include summer magnet…

Small rural schools incur greater expense and hardship to take advantage of staff development activities, usually held in cities or universities. The Iowa Intervention Initiative (III) overcame practical and logistic problems to hold teacher workshops for 79 small rural Iowa schools. Discusses III goals, recruitment of participants, selection and…

Goals 2000 differs from previous educational legislation because it requires systemic reform and partnerships. The article discusses Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, explains how legislation is developed, and examines Goals 2000's main provisions, content and performance standards, role in professional development, and ties…

Discusses the importance of evaluation of school library resource centers for effective schools and the professional development of teacher librarians. Provides a chart profiling the role of the teacher-librarian in the awareness, mechanical, routine, and refined stages of the implementation of critical educational components in a cooperative…