Even as research documents that teachers matter, there is less certainty about the attributes of teachers that make the most difference in raising student achievement. Many studies have estimated the relationship between teachers' characteristics (i.e., experience and academic performance) and their value-added to student achievement. Few have…

Contrasts the knowledge and beliefs concerning one aspect of curricular knowledge, the selection and organization of content, held by six first-year English teachers. Finds that beginning teachers draw upon a number of sources in the construction of their curricular knowledge of English. (MG)

A case-study methodology is used to explore the pedagogical content knowledge of three beginning secondary-school English teachers, all of whom entered teaching with strong literature backgrounds and no teacher education coursework. (IAH)

Examined the individual characteristics and high school departments of mathematics and English teachers who did or did not adapt instruction for diverse students. Data from case studies and surveys revealed different patterns of goals, beliefs, and conceptions of subject matter and students characteristic of teachers who did and did not adapt.…