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Multicultural Education and Empowerment through Faculty Support Programs
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Durodoye, Beth A.; Ennis-Cole, Demetria; Simpson, Christopher; Ennis, Willie, III – Perspectives in Peer Programs, 2008
The thrust of the multicultural movement has been aimed at teaching students to become culturally responsive in their interactions with peers. Less attention has been focused on information needed by educators who attempt to promote positive intercultural exchanges in the classroom. This article describes a faculty supported pilot seminar aimed at…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Multicultural Education, Teacher Educators, Cultural Pluralism
Student Attitudes to Teachers and Teaching.
Angus, L. – Unicorn, Bulletin of the Australian College of Education, 1984
Presents an analysis of good and bad teaching practices through the perceptions of students and teachers in an Australian Catholic boys' school. Investigates ways teachers negotiate order in the classroom. (MD)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Cooperation
Sounds from the Heart: Learning To Listen to Girls.
Barbieri, Maureen – 1995
Describing a teacher's struggle to help her seventh-grade students reach their full potential, this book is about girls--their learning, their social dilemmas, and their dreams, hopes, and fears. The book reveals the obstacles the teacher faced and how her students collaborated with her to become curriculum builders as they explored issues such as…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, English Instruction, Females
Creating Multicultural Classrooms: An Experience-Derived Faculty Development Program.
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Schmitz, Betty; And Others – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1992
Experiences with the evolution of a University of Maryland, College Park, faculty development program focusing on diversity and classroom climate provide insights into appropriate responses to student diversity. Attention must be given to program rationale, theoretical framework, program content, pedagogical approach, format, scheduling, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, College Faculty
Inside Feminist Classrooms: An Ethnographic Approach.
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Maher, Frances; Tetreault, Mary Kay Thompson – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1992
Feminist teaching practices, by questioning traditional epistemology and distribution of power, offer special advantages in the culturally diverse classroom, where the valuing of different perspectives is essential. A study of two feminist teachers demonstrates how they attempt to create new kinds of classroom cultures through mastery, voice,…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, College Faculty
How Teachers Manage Individual and Small-Group Work in Active Classrooms.
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Kierstead, Janet – Educational Leadership, 1986
Describes how teachers manage multitask classroom activities by defining teacher and student work cycles, sorting students into attention categories by assessing their work daily, and providing assistance to students according to need. Includes figures illustrating student's and teacher's work cycles and the three levels of classroom decision…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
Improving Classroom Communication. The Talking and Writing Series, K-12: Successful Classroom Practices.
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Cooper, Pamela J.; Galvin, Kathleen M. – 1983
Prepared as part of a series applying recent research in oral and written communication instruction to classroom practice, this booklet reviews research and presents suggestions designed to improve the classroom communication climate. The first section of the booklet describes the process of building a supportive environment to reflect a range of…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Communication Apprehension, Communication Research
Cohen v. San Bernardino Valley College: The Scope of Academic Freedom within the Context of Sexual Harassment Claims and In-Class Speech.
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Smith, Sonya G. – Journal of College and University Law, 1998
Examines the issue of a professor's First Amendment right to academic freedom vs. a student's right to an effective learning environment free from sexual harassment in a 1996 case, Cohen vs. San Bernardino Valley College. Also explored is the right of a public employee to free speech. Recommendations are offered to college administrators on…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Administrative Policy, Case Studies, Classroom Communication
Handbook for the Evaluation of Teachers and Foreign Language Programs.
Pasko, Edward Anthony – 1992
This handbook provides guidelines and forms for evaluating second language teachers' performance and second language programs. The first section, which addresses the supervision and evaluation of language teachers, outlines basic principles (supervisory goals, evaluator attitudes, supervisory visits, and follow-up conferences), gives instructions…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques