A one-year staff development project was conducted to develop in teachers a knowledge and an acceptance of themselves as "persons who guide the learning of children as persons," and to train 20 exceptional teachers for leadership roles in the district. The summer workshop began with a 3-day encounter session which built group rapport and…

This paper reports on the use of the Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory (MTAI) to measure scores of teachers participating in a multicultural education institute, which focused on cultural factors in learning and the development of creative educational materials. First, the paper discusses the problem of teachers' maintaining positive attitudes…

This study investigated means by which innovations in elementary science teaching may be efficiently diffused to classroom teachers. Selected teachers were used to adopt innovations and to extend the innovations within their schools. Subjects were drawn from 1,205 elementary teachers teaching in 112 elementary schools in western Pennsylvania.…

This study continues an earlier project (ED010369) to determine if student achievement and attitude toward school subjects (1) can be improved by increasing feedback to teachers concerning pupil and/or trained observer reaction to their teaching, (2) correlate significantly with attitude of teachers toward their pupils, (3) can be improved to a…

This project attempted to combine pre-service methods, student teaching and in-service curriculum improvement. The participants were 18 elementary classroom teachers, 22 college students, 1 Miller-Unruh teacher, 1 Title I teacher, 4 special education teachers, and a principal. The college students were assigned to one elementary (K-8) school for…