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Collinson, Vivienne – 1996
This book suggests that professional knowledge (knowledge of subject matter, curriculum, and pedagogy) is not sufficient for becoming an exemplary teacher. It must be combined with interpersonal knowledge (relationships with students and with the educational and local communities), and intrapersonal knowledge (teachers ethics, dispositions, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
Wadsworth, Emily C., Ed.; And Others – 1994
This annual journal issue contains 24 papers on issues of faculty development, instructional improvement, knowledge and teaching, and communication in higher education. Many of the papers were developed for the annual conference of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD). The papers are: (1) "Teaching…
Descriptors: Career Development, College Faculty, College Instruction, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Murray, Harry; And Others – 1996
This document provides a set of basic ethical principles that define the professional responsibilities of university professors in their role as teachers. Ethical principles are conceptualized here as general guidelines, ideals, or expectations that need to be taken into account, along with other relevant conditions and circumstances, in the…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Codes of Ethics, College Faculty, Confidentiality
Iverson, Landa J.; Chavez, Janice A. – 1997
This study compared the knowledge and skill levels of urban and rural special education teachers across 13 emotional and behavior disordered (EBD) competency areas. Fifty-eight graduate students enrolled in special education courses at California State University at Fresno completed the Emotionally and Behaviorally Disordered Teacher Competencies…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances
Abdal-Haqq, Ismat – 1995
This digest examines the relationship between elementary and secondary teachers' use of computer-based technologies to deliver and support classroom instruction and the training provided to prospective teachers by teacher education institutions. It offers an overview of obstacles faced by teacher educators in providing appropriate technology…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Change, Educational Technology
Powers, P. J.; Harris, Larry B. – 1991
Consistent with education reform, Professional Education Units (PEUs) are engaged in a re-examination of teacher education. This study was conducted by the PEU at Wayne State College (Nebraska) to examine perceptions of readiness for teaching by 74 preservice teachers in their first education course, 81 teacher education students in their student…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Attitude Measures, Cooperating Teachers
Chen, Shu-fang – 1998
This study examined the decision-making processes of preschool teachers in creating developmentally appropriate practices. Five teachers of 4-year-old children in 3 private schools participated; these teachers' classrooms scored high on both the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale and the Classroom Practices Inventory. A model of preschool…
Descriptors: Child Development, Classroom Environment, Curriculum Development, Decision Making
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Theilheimer, Rachel; Cahill, Betsy – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2004
In this article the authors discuss the relationships in college classrooms from the perspective of feminist teaching. With attention to power dynamics, they analyzed 17 early childhood course syllabi in order to elucidate those relationships. The authors present examples from the syllabi of course content, class experiences, and syllabus language…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Student Relationship, Course Descriptions
Hess, Frederick M.; Rotherham, Andrew J.; Walsh, Kate – WestEd, 2005
In recent years, the debate over teacher quality and preparation has gained new urgency. Competing groups of partisans have dominated this debate: one seemingly eager to assail the nation's education schools and to suggest that there is an insufficiently defined body of professional teaching knowledge, the other committed to advancing…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Qualifications
King, Stephen B.; King, Marsha; Rothwell, William J. – 2001
This guide focuses on 14 instructor competencies identified by the International Board of Standards for Training, Performance, and Instruction. It provides examples, job aids, worksheets, case studies, and sample dialogs and contains actual experiences and critical incidents faced by trainers who participated in the survey study. Strategies to…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Competency Based Teacher Education, Continuing Education, Educational Media
Haycock, Kati – Thinking K-16, 1998
This issue focuses on what recent research from Tennessee, Texas, Massachusetts, and Alabama says about the most significant factor that impacts student achievement: the teacher. After presenting teacher effectiveness data from the four states, it discusses what makes an effective teacher, focusing on the need for strong verbal and math skills,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Accountability, Elementary Secondary Education
Harnisch, Henriette, Ed.; Swanton, Pauline, Ed. – CILT, the National Centre for Languages, 2004
"Adults Learning Languages" is aimed at those responsible for teaching languages across AE, FE and HE. In the much-changed world of post-19 languages, new funding and inspection regimes with revised needs for quality assurance are challenging practitioners to adapt and review approaches. This book offers teachers of languages to adults tools to…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Quality Control
Harrison, Jo-Ann – 1997
This study examines the nature of the initial implementation of a new multicultural sociology curriculum by eight teachers in the 11th- and 12th-grades of seven Israeli high schools. The study examined: (1) the extent and ways in which teachers reframe their theories of action as they learn to implement the new curriculum; (2) the factors that…
Descriptors: Curriculum Research, Experiential Learning, Focus Groups, Foreign Countries
Kim, Young-soo; Germann, Paul J.; Patton, Martha – 1998
This paper reports on the analyses of concept maps on the nature of science constructed by preservice secondary science teachers (N=17) during a semester-long reflective process. Analysis of their electronic journals also provides hierarchical evidence. The research questions explored in this study pertain to determining the views of preservice…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Concept Mapping, Constructivism (Learning), Electronic Mail
Jablonski, Ann – 1992
This paper describes the development of an experimental, alternative, graduate-level preservice teacher education program at Fordham University, the Internship Fellowship Program. The 15-month program includes an Instructional Training Laboratory (ITL) during the first summer, which supports the intern's acquisition of cognitive and performance…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Graduate Study
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