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Gerlach, Jeanne Marcum – English Journal, 1999
Offers a brief description of the Third International Conference for Global Conversations on Language and Literacy, held in Bordeaux, France, in August 1998. Gives brief summaries of five conference presentations or sessions. (SR)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, English Teacher Education, English Teachers
Gardiner, Steve – Phi Delta Kappan, 2001
Provides English teachers with some suggestions on ways to counter growing problem of students cheating on writing assignments by copying or buying papers available over the Internet. (PKP)
Descriptors: Cheating, English Teachers, High Schools, World Wide Web
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Shadiow, Linda K. – English Journal, 2000
Offers remarks on English teaching published in professional journals from 1886 to 1917, discussing the following questions: "Do I teach students or English or both?"; "Under what circumstances is English teaching done well?"; "What are the consequences of focused attention on English teaching?"; "With what challenges is the English teacher…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Trends, English Instruction, English Teachers
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Baker, Carolyn D.; Johnson, Greer – Language and Education, 1998
Suggests that data from interviews with teachers and other educational participants can be analyzed differently when interviews are studied as instances of language in education themselves. The paper analyzes data from previous research, and uses data from two interviews with a beginning secondary level English teacher to highlight ways that…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Discourse Analysis, English Teachers, Higher Education
Liepolt, Werner – Learning & Leading with Technology, 2005
For more than 30 years, Staples High School (Westport, Connecticut) juniors have undertaken a major research paper. Their English teachers supervise this project-based unit and get feedback about the preparation students feel they have gotten in research and in writing. Students used to be taught to use notebooks, paper, pencil, and index cards…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, English Teachers, Word Processing, High School Students
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Wendelin, Dave – English Journal, 2002
Outlines the highlights of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) 2001 Baltimore convention. Explains the Teacher of Excellence Awards, which identifies outstanding high school English language arts teachers. Comments on a selection of a new editor for the "English Journal," and details new initiatives as well as the Portland…
Descriptors: Awards, Conferences, Content Area Reading, English Teachers
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Thomas, P. L. – English Journal, 2000
Discusses the work and contributions of Lou LaBrant, who became president of the National Council of Teachers of English in 1954, and who was one of the foremost progressive practitioners of reading and writing instruction. Discusses her research, her teaching, her experience, and her lifelong insistence that the writing curriculum had to be…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction