As part of a 3-year research project, a study focused on the character and the consequences of vocational and academic teachers' professional identities and relationships within comprehensive high schools. Information was gathered through interviews, observations, and survey queries in five high schools in California and Michigan. The views of 35…

While tenure-track faculty begin their careers with some sense of what they will teach, what they will earn, and how they will be promoted, lecturers are not allowed such assurances. In the early days, lecturers in the English Department at the University of Nevada Reno (UNR) taught basic composition courses, four per semester unless they were…

This report focuses on measures that can be taken by school boards to give recognition to their staff and improve the quality of their employees' working life. The report is based on the findings of a survey done by the Canadian Education Association, to which 103 out of 224 school boards responded. The first section describes ways of recognizing…

Part-time instructors make up an increasingly large percentage of college faculty. In English departments, part-time instructors take on the least prestigious and most demanding work--the teaching of writing--for low wages and without job security or professional recognition. This unfair treatment stems from the belief that the study and teaching…

A practitioner discusses the problems associated with instructional development (ID) and makes practical recommendations for improving faculty morale and interest, for organizing ID staff, and for improving ID administrative management. (DC)

Possible selves represent individuals' ideas of what they might become, what they would like to become, and what they are afraid of becoming in the future. Possible selves contribute to the motivation process in two ways. By providing a person with a specific goal for which to strive, they structure both thoughts and actions. Possible selves also…

The de facto signature style of the Modern Language Association's "PMLA" magazine not only bores many readers (contributing to the decline in MLA membership), but mandates rejection of any papers stylistically distinct from previous "PMLA" articles. In addition, to judge from several rejection letters, "PMLA" subject…

For the past 37 years, the American Association of School Administrators (AASA) and the American Institute of Architects (AIA) have sponsored a competition to recognize outstanding achievements in the field of educational facility planning and design. This book represents the 1986 exhibition of school architecture as displayed at the 118th…

Intended for elementary and secondary school English teachers, this thematic journal issue offers practical suggestions and strategies to help educators improve their professional image, both in the classroom and in the larger sphere of the community. The titles and authors of the eight articles are as follows: (1) "Raising Your…

Pay-for-performance measures and reward systems for teachers fail to consider the role of performance appraisal and give too little attention to how changes in performance appraisal and reward systems affect organizational processes, such as interteacher cooperation and teacher-administrator relations. Presented are three strategic considerations…

Biographies of 77 Indian women highlight professional and personal accomplishments as well as contributions to the Indian community. Biographies are arranged by area of professional achievement in eight chapters: tribal government and politics, law, administration, education, communications, special fields (the arts, armed forces, and independent…

A long-term study of new professors in 14 graduate schools of education sought to identify the academic choices professors make early in their careers. A survey examined professors' hours spent in job-related work each week, tasks they committed their time to, tasks they felt they should commit more time to, and insights they reported about their…

A survey was conducted to determine the ways in which various factors help in the achievement of status for the three types of music faculty (performance, theory and history, and music education). A questionnaire was sent to 207 full-time music faculty members in six state-supported university schools/departments of music. A response rate of 54.6%…

Ninety-eight women mass communication professors responded to a questionnaire on job satisfaction. Their responses were added to females' responses of a 1982 study, and the enlarged sample of women was then compared with the male respondents from that study. Marked differences were found in the background of the male and female assistant…

By analogy, research suggests that training Child Development Associate (CDA) candidates to handle the complexity and autonomy of the early childhood teaching job is likely to have long range effects on the teacher and the early childhood education field. That is, a truly competent teacher behaves professionally and will become increasingly…