High teacher expectations are an essential component of quality education and are known to lead to positive outcomes for students. The authors examined perceived changes in teacher beliefs, expectations, and behaviors that result from the introduction of the Kalamazoo Promise, a universal postsecondary scholarship program. These perceptions were…

Student foundational knowledge of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is formed in their elementary education. Paradoxically, many elementary teachers have constrained background knowledge, confidence, and efficacy for teaching STEM that may hamper student STEM learning. The association between teacher preparation to teach…

A model in-service education program in content area reading is described. Secondary content teachers changed their attitudes toward teaching reading in their classes, improved their knowledge of reading skills, and expanded their perception of their skill in teaching reading. (Editor)

There is evidence that both preferences and beliefs of student teachers can be altered by the influence of a student teaching program. (MM)

A field experiment was done to determine the outcomes of reflective teaching, a laboratory teaching experience that features aspects of peer teaching and microteaching. Results indicate that reflective teaching enhances the ability of students to express themselves in a more analytical manner. (JN)

Researchers investigated whether inservice teachers' attitudes toward writing would be more similar with linguists' attitudes after participating in workshops stressing a process approach to writing. The workshops did influence teachers' attitudes, so that they relied less on rules and more on language usage to dtermine the appropriateness of a…

A ten-week program of large-group instruction, task-oriented interaction, and field study resulted in significantly greater empathy on the part of teachers toward minority persons--an attitude change still in evidence two and one-half months after program completion. (MB)