Describes the collaborative efforts of the National Career Development Association, National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee, and Career Development Training Institute at Oakland University, which resulted in the emergence and recognition of the important role of career development facilitators (CDFs). Summarizes the development of…

Two teacher researchers examined the nature of mentoring relationships occurring among and between team teachers at one middle school as they planned for and taught a common group of students. There were five types of (simultaneous) mentoring among teachers: collaborative, clerical, professional teacher, interdisciplinary content, and…

Despite considerable focus on school-development planning and cooperative-management forms in (British) primary schools, little effort has been made to link curriculum, staff, and school-development concerns through the work of curriculum coordinators. A recent survey shows that curriculum coordinators are confined to consultant roles. This…

This paper contains a report about a collaborative project of the University of Twente (Netherlands) Faculty of Educational Science and Technology, Department of Curriculum and the Dutch National Institute for Curriculum Development (SLO). The project explores the potentially supportive role of the computer in improving the quality and efficiency…

Describes a massive cultural transformation project at two Charlotte, North Carolina, elementary schools that used Deming's total quality management principles to restructure curricula according to Boyer's eight commonalities of learning. Shows how the FADE (focus, analyze, develop, and execute) model was used to develop a well-coordinated,…

Highlights pitfalls and successes in a cooperative curriculum and teacher-development project involving U.S. and Brazilian educators. Difficulties arose, due to differing conceptions of community and individualism as related to disabled persons' equal-education rights. Challenging Brazil's hierarchically based social prescriptions resulted in…

Discusses modular strategies for integrating academic and vocational education, such as those advocated in proposals for a unified system of postcompulsory education and training. Focuses on the "aggregative" strategy allowing students to combine academic and vocation modules in programs matching their individual needs and circumstances.…

Mentor, a law-related program sponsored by the Federal Bar Council, New York Alliance for the Public Schools and the New York City Public Schools, completed its second year of operation in 1983-84. This evaluation report focuses on the 1983-84 program expansion implemented in spring 1983. Mentor consists of a series of one-day activity sessions…

This paper explores tensions arising from the dynamics of educational change. The focus is on higher education programmes preparing teachers for the learning and skills sector (LSS) in England. Recent policy initiatives relating to this provision have insisted on the development of subject specialist pedagogy. Powerful social, political and…

This paper reviews the experiences of a collaborative approach to the intense educational development involved in the transition to a successful technology-facilitated off-campus study program. Drawing on a history of many years of collaboration between the Australian National University (ANU) educational development center (CEDAM) and the Legal…

A new approach is needed to develop effective energy education programs. Energy education for teachers will be increasingly based on cooperative efforts between teacher education programs, school districts, energy companies, federal agencies, and environmental organizations. (JN)

Principals should delegate the responsibility for research-based curriculum and instructional improvement to career (effective) teachers. Guidelines for planning cooperative in-service education workshops are provided, along with advice concerning goals, target audience, agenda, incentives, estimated budget, and program evaluation approaches. (MLH)

This evaluation, conducted in 1994, examines all of the West Virginia Commission on the Arts' Arts in Education programs and assesses the future direction of the programs. The evaluation was conducted with a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods so as to provide the Commission with the data it needs to help guide planning and further…

Discusses the rationale and purposes of school-university collaboration and describes an Indiana University program working with school districts to identify, select, and prepare aspiring school leaders. Advises schools of education to reorient their mission, engage in new lines of inquiry, reorganize the faculty. realign resources, and redesign…

A national network of six regional curriculum centers and at least 40 state-level curriculum materials centers are designed to identify and provide job training materials. These centers are supported with funds from federal and state legislation for vocational and technical education. The extent to which services of these centers are currently…