In an interview, Barbara Koppman, a classroom teacher, reading specialist, and curriculum writer, expresses her opinions on professional standards, teacher morale, teacher evaluation, the use of master teachers, professional organizations for teachers, teacher image in the media, and the school's role in solving social problems. (JN)

Notes why teachers can identify with the characters on the television police drama "Hill Street Blues." (RL)

Questionnaires and interviews were used to study student teachers' anxiety and reactions to classroom successes and failures. From the questionnaire responses, it was clear that anxiety fell during the three-week practice session while custodial attitudes increased. (FG)

A wide range of teachers were sampled to study whether attitudes toward the profession change with age and/or generation, or the amount of professional experience. Attitudes concerning the fulfillment of altruistic and pragmatic needs were assessed both for present views and for when the career choice was made. (Author/GDC)

Reports a survey of 1,295 teachers in large Iowa high schools on their needs (following Maslow's categories) in relation to age, sex, and student ability level taught, plus their overall job satisfaction and its relationship to their professional discretion, participation in decision making, and reciprocal trust. (Author/SJL)

Survey data indicates that neither marital status nor marital happiness is related to anomia. Suggests a moderately strong negative relationship exists between education and anomia with a weak negative relationship between overall life satisfaction and anomia. Results indicate socioeconomic status remains the primary determinant of anomia for most…

The importance of maintaining the moral and institutional loyalty of remaining faculty during a period of retrenchment is discussed. Areas discussed are institutional perspective, decline strategy, slack resources and priorities, program reviews and planning, and professional development. (Author/LC)

Recall and weekly recordings of morale levels yielded similar morale profiles. Morale profiles among kindergarten/elementary, elementary, secondary education majors and secondary noneducation majors were very similar. The kindergarten/elementary group experienced lower morale during week eight. Overall, morale was high during the entire semester.…

Since teachers are a school's most important resource and its largest financial investment, it makes sense to devote time to assuring their success. A school can protect its investment in new teachers by giving them the necessary support from the start through relationships that are both nurturing and evaluative. (Author/AN)

Curriculum reform should recapture meaning in education, return childhood to children, and emphasize exploratory activity and analogic cognitive processes. (Author/MLF)

The conflict between a teacher who favored an informal mode of instruction and a principal who favored a more structured environment, and how this conflict was partially resolved through professional counseling for both parties, are discussed. (RW)

Provides a series of essays written for "The Academic Workplace," the newsletter of the New England Resource Center for Higher Education, since 1990. The backdrop for the essays is the increasing inequality in higher education caused by changes in the political economy of higher education, especially in New England. Altogether, the…

Results of a self-report questionnaire indicated that female primary teachers in Australia report moderate levels of global, work, and family stress. Time and workload pressure was the major work stressor, and responsibility for child rearing the major family stressor. Work stress and home stress both impacted on each other. (EV)

Reveals that most research on teacher stress relies on personal accounts. Presents a psychology of action-concept of stress and that has been transferred to teacher's instructional activities. Argues that this psychology of action concept of stress helps develop an understanding of teachers' work and what may lead to psychological stress. (CAJ)

Developed a model to explain the causes and consequences of negative teacher-student relationships, analyzing surveys of Romanian high school teachers and students. Overall, teachers' approaches to student control, teacher morale, and teacher burnout related to students' perceptions of teacher hostility and negative teacher-student interactions,…