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McLaughlin, Milbrey W. – 1984
Research extending back into the 1890's reveals that the quality of classroom instruction depends not upon differing curricula, for example, but rather upon the attitudes and actions of teachers. Instructional effectiveness is especially important for independent schools, yet availability as well as quality of candidates has dropped markedly.…
Descriptors: Administrators, Board of Education Role, Classroom Environment, Educational Attitudes
Grubis, Steve – 1982
High teacher attrition in rural Alaska is abetted by stress induced by the culturally and environmentally differing milieus of the arctic and sub-arctic. Severe climatic conditions curtail traditional activities, and confined isolated settings place strain on personal relationships and heighten irritability, anxiety, and anger, often leading to…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Alaska Natives, Antisocial Behavior, Communication Problems
Fox, James H., Jr. – 1984
An administrator who has been involved in the reorganizations of five school systems to create middle schools found that the reorganization improved delivery of educational services to K-12 students. A districtwide reorganization improves teacher morale by offering an opportunity for teachers to move to a different grade organization in their…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., New York, NY. – 1988
This survey is based on interviews with a nationally representative sample of 1,208 teachers, including an oversample of minority teachers in the nation's public schools. Over 2,700 school children in grades 4 through 12 were also interviewed, allowing for a comparison of teachers' and students' perceptions. The focus of the survey is on how…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Job Satisfaction, Minority Group Teachers
National Study of School Evaluation, Arlington, VA. – 1975
Teaching staff represent a powerful influence on program development. Therefore it is essential that their opinions be ascertained and analyzed in a school evaluation. The Teacher Opinion Inventory was developed to accomplish three goals: (1) to assess teacher opinion toward many facets of the school; (2) to provide teacher recommendations for…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Educational Facilities Improvement, Elementary Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
Shoop, Linda – 1980
A discussion is presented on the psychological and physical nature and origin of stress, changes in life stages that individuals make in response to events, and situations in life that create pressure and tension. This discussion is followed by examples of how to deal with stress through awareness of: communication skills; coping techniques, both…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Anxiety, Communication (Thought Transfer), Coping
Marty, Myron A. – 1979
Steps must be taken to upset the academic equilibrium that sustains the dearth of humanities in community college curricula. Accommodation to institutional and societal factors have forced an emphasis on practical rather than liberal arts courses, and provided for an incomplete curriculum that does not help the student meet humanistic educational…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development
LAMBERT, SAM M. – 1967
AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF CHIEF STATE SCHOOL OFFICERS HELD NOVEMBER 14, 1967, IN SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO, THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY OF THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION DEFINED MAJOR FACTORS TO WHICH HE ATTRIBUTED UNREST AMONG TEACHERS IN AMERICAN SCHOOLS. THESE FACTORS INCLUDE RAPIDLY INCREASING SCHOOL ENROLLMENT, CONSEQUENT SOCIAL…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Collective Bargaining, Curriculum Development, Decentralization
Meggitt, P. H. – 1977
In the form of a diary, an educational consultant describes the highlights of three months of organizational development at an Australian high school. The intervention involved staff, administrators, teachers, students, and parents in the goal of improving the quality of life and learning at the school. Change strategies are described and the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Change Strategies, Conflict Resolution, Consultants
Schofield, Janet Ward – 1975
This study investigates two hypotheses: (1) that black children experience more conflict over their racial identity than white children, and (2) that black children are less likely to identify with occupational role models than are white children are investigated in this study. Drawings of a person by 167 black and 156 white primary school…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Childhood Attitudes, Identification (Psychology), Individual Characteristics
Lorton, Larry – 1973
The McKinley Project represents a systems approach to reorganizing instruction. The reorganization was based on three conclusions drawn from a comprehensive investigation of research and practices by the Commission on Public Personnel Policies in Ohio. The conclusions were that (1) variance within a grade level on many learning variables is…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Cross Age Teaching, Educational Innovation, Educational Research
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Spector, Barbara S. – Science Teacher, 1983
Reports findings of national survey supported by grant from Florida Institute of Government (30 states responding) on questions about legislative initiatives to raise salaries, give cash awards to excellent teachers, hire paraprofessionals, and upgrade certification standards. Warns average science teacher age is mid-40s; retirement will sharpen…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Incentives, National Surveys
Jiang, Yong – Online Submission, 2005
The purpose of this study was to explore the influencing and effective models of Chinese early childhood teachers' job satisfaction. Using a questionnaire of 317 teachers from 21 kindergartens in Shanghai, China, the present study established the influencing and effective structure model of teachers' job satisfaction. The results demonstrated that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organizational Climate, Educational Change, Curriculum Development
Achilles, C. M.; Finn, J. D. – 2002
In this paper, the authors examine several factors related to class size. The purpose of the presentation is to: (1) trace the evolution of class-size research; (2) briefly describe the Student Achievement Ratio (STAR) class-size experiment; (3) summarize the early and the later student outcomes of STAR participants; (4) outline the…
Descriptors: Class Size, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation
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Bergem, Trygve – Journal of Moral Education, 1993
Reviews research on the nature and development of the professional morality of preservice teachers. Reports on a longitudinal study of 284 education students regarding an ethical dilemma about teacher interrelationships. Maintains that one barrier is the lack of a well-established professional moral language. (CFR)
Descriptors: Beliefs, Codes of Ethics, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy
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