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Download full textNeal, Ed, Ed.; Richlin, Laurie, Ed. – 1995
This annual journal issue contains 17 papers on issues of faculty development, instructional improvement, faculty collaboration and collegiability, students, and educational practices in higher education. Many of the papers were developed for the annual conference of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Critical Thinking
Anderson, Marti; And Others – 1995
This paper describes the structure and activities of the Windham Partnership for Teacher Education, a collaborative of four rural Vermont elementary professional development schools (PDSs), a high school PDS, and the School for International Training graduate program in foreign language teacher education. Three integrated activities are at the…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Collegiality, Course Content, Elementary Secondary Education
Straten, Geertjan, Ed.; And Others – 1996
This report describes the design and results of a survey reviewing European research activities in the field of reflective teaching theories and the use of telecommunications technologies in teacher education. The project also has the goal of identifying possible partners for participation in future collaborative research that will enhance the…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Distance Education, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education
Alliance, an Association for Alternative Degree Programs. – 1991
Workshops and presentations in this volume are as follows: "Learning the Language of Learning" (Firestone); "Self-Study Examination Program of Higher Education for Adults in China" (Wang, Smith); "Using the Principles and Process of Adult Learning to Develop an Award Level Program for the Education of Adult Educators: An…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Action Research, Adult Education, Adult Learning
Batten, Margaret; And Others – 1993
This monograph gives an account of three associated studies of the professional craft knowledge of teachers as articulated by 20 teachers in 4 secondary schools in Victoria, Queensland, and New South Wales, Australia. Participants were chosen on the basis of: (1) student identification of their best teachers and (2) equal representation from three…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Educational Practices
Hassard, Jack; And Others – 1993
This sourcebook and report describes the results of the Alternative Teacher Preparation Institute for Secondary Foreign Language, Mathematics, and Science Teachers at Georgia State University, and offers a plan to implement an alternative graduate level teacher preparation program, the Teacher Education Environments in Mathematics and Science…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Constructivism (Learning), Curriculum Design, Higher Education
Hunt, Gilbert; Wiseman, Dennis; Bowden, Sandra – 1998
This textbook is designed to help beginning middle level teachers develop teaching philosophies, behaviors, and skills relevant to effective instruction. The eight chapters include the following: (1) Origins and Essential Elements of Middle Level Schools (junior high schools and middle schools); (2) Essential Characteristics of Middle Level…
Descriptors: Child Development, Classroom Environment, Curriculum Development, Developmental Stages
PDF pending restorationDel Prete, Thomas; And Others – 1990
The concept of the professional development school (PDS) and the commitment to collaboration advocated by educational reformers derives in part from a recognition of the need to more fully incorporate the voices of teachers in teacher education and professional development. The Coolidge Professional Development School (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts)…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Cooperating Teachers, Educational Change, Educational Environment
Russell, Tom – 1992
A teacher educator took over a high school physics teachers' class for a semester in exchange for the physics teacher taking over his university physics methods classes. The paper presents the perceptions of people involved in the experience. Students at both schools accepted the situation well. University students, invited to observe their…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research, College School Cooperation
Snyder, Jo-Ann; And Others – 1993
This paper reports on a pilot project conducted at the College of Education, Wayne State University (Michigan), to explore the potential of the portfolio process as a tool for assessing the professional skill development of student teachers and the effectiveness of the teacher preparation program. Project goals included the promotion and…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Collegiality, Competency Based Teacher Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Hughes, Phillip, Ed. – 1991
This book is the first in a series on teachers and teaching, a result of the Australian Council for Educational Research program of research on teachers. The theme, teachers in society, has been constructed around three broad areas: the context of teaching, teacher education, and teachers' work. The book is divided into 8 chapters as follows: (l)…
Descriptors: Administrators, Curriculum Development, Distance Education, Educational Policy
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The purpose of this longitudinal study was to assess whether faculty writing workshops could facilitate writing in heterogeneous disciplines by linking specific, workaday writing activities (Tschudi, 1986) with Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives (1974). Multi-disciplinary faculty participating in writing-across-the-curriculum workshops…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, College Faculty, Writing Workshops, Interdisciplinary Approach
Laiken, Marilyn E. – 2002
At the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Ontario, a course entitled Developing and Leading High Performing Teams: Theory and Practice is experimenting with a design that surfaces the action/reflection paradox for the purpose of learning how to manage this polarity. Whether the product is defined as services or goods,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Conflict Resolution, Cooperative Learning
Costanzo, Meg Ryback – 2001
In the Adult Multiple Intelligences (AMI) study, 10 teachers of adults from the northeastern region of the United States explored for 18 months the ways that multiple intelligences (MI) theory could support instruction and assessment in various adult learning contexts. The results of this research were published in a book by Julie Viens called MI…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Kerka, Sandra – 2003
An evidence-based connection between adult educator professional development (PD) and learner outcomes is difficult to document, yet there is an intuitive assumption that professional development is linked to better teaching and learning outcomes. The field appears to be shifting away from one-shot PD to practitioner engagement in sustained,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Evaluation Problems
