This report describes aspects of the professional engagement of American teachers and examines relationships between professional engagement and teaching practice, including instruction involving computer use. Professional engagement is measured by: the frequency that teachers had informal substantive communications with other teachers at their…

The possibility that direct participation by faculty in projects to revise curricula and create new instructional media would also generate a more systematic way of thinking about teaching was studied through administration of a questionnaire to faculty at Illinois State University who had received an instructional development program grant. Of…