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Lenze, Lisa Firing – NEA Higher Education Research Center Update, 1997
This report introduces the issues to be addressed in the establishment of a teaching center. The history of teaching centers in the United States dates to the early 1970's. Teaching centers were developed in response to student demands for relevant teaching and in response to the influx of non-traditional students. The most useful information to…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Change
Download full textMartin, Peter H. – 1980
Project RISE (Regional In-Service Education) is an inservice center serving teachers, administrators, support staff and parents in central Connecticut. It began in 1976 with state funding, and serves 500 teachers in nine rural and small town districts. An initial needs assessment provided a basis for planning and responding to individual teachers'…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Informal Organization, Inservice Teacher Education, Program Development
Sadowski, Barbara R., Ed.; Lovett, Charles, Ed. – 1981
A conference of teacher center directors was held to explore the applications of computers to education. Three strands of the conference were presented: management, information systems and communications, and instruction. The papers given at the conference provide a primer for teachers and teacher center directors who are beginning to work with…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Computers, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedSayer, John, Ed.; And Others – Oxford Studies in Comparative Education, 1995
This journal issue describes in detail the work of a Trans-European Mobility Schemes for University Studies (TEMPUS) project, directed by John Sayer and based in the Department of Educational Studies of the University of Oxford. The project's activities, concerned principally with the development of democratic processes in the elementary,…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, College School Cooperation, Comparative Education, Democracy
Smith, Stuart C. – OSSC Report, 1986
Recently, the traditional school structure has been harshly scrutinized for several key defects, including bureaucratic rules and regulations, professional isolation of teaching staff, evaluation systems irrelevant to instructional improvement, low teacher participation in decision making, and noncooperation between teachers and administrators.…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development, Instructional Improvement
Watts, Heidi – 1980
The theory that there are stages in teachers' professional development suggests that those who aim to stimulate or support that growth must be sensitive to the stage each teacher is in. Three stages of development are described: the survival or beginning teacher stage; the middle stage, characterized by an increasing sense of comfort in the…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Beginning Teachers, Developmental Stages, Individual Development
Dutkiewicz, Jody Steiner, Ed. – 1980
This publication features articles detailing the state of educational programs in the Rocky Mountain area. The articles address: 1) the impact of physical geography on culture, education, and lifestyle; 2) the education of migrant and/or agricultural workers and their children; 3) educational needs of children in rural areas; 4) outdoor education;…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, American Indians, Cultural Background, Differences
Keeney, Lorraine, Ed.; Devaney, Kathleen, Ed. – Transcripts and Commentaries, 1982
Articles in this document are edited from talks and discussions that took place at the 1979, 1980, and 1981 Workparties (four-day retreat/conferences) sponsored for rural educators by the Teachers' Centers Exchange. Workparties were held in collaboration with Mountain Towns' Teacher Center, Wilmington, Vermont (1978), Washington West Resource…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Community Characteristics, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Mobility
