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von Frank, Valerie – Journal of Staff Development, 2009
This article describes how a long-term commitment to job-embedded professional development creates a culture of continuous learning in one Michigan district. In Holt Public Schools, every Wednesday is time for teachers' professional development, and that means the students' day is shorter by two hours to allow it. Through two decades and three…
Descriptors: Professional Development, School Districts, Program Descriptions, Teacher Attitudes
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Lim, Janine; Freed, Shirley – Qualitative Report, 2009
As K-12 schools acquire equipment for videoconferencing, they often experience limited usage of the equipment. The purpose of this study was to identify specific concerns of educators currently involved in videoconferencing. The primary data for the study was 400 discussion posts from 34 educators in an online class about videoconferencing. Data…
Descriptors: Teleconferencing, Teacher Attitudes, Technology Uses in Education, Hermeneutics
Neufeld, V. Douglas – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Because of increasing student enrollment, a new school was formed in a small low-income Southern California school district. Teachers could choose to transfer to the new school or remain at the existing school. Over five years, quantitative analyses of demographic data showed little differences between the two schools across the years except for a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, At Risk Students, Enrollment, Intervention
Buchmann, Margret – 1983
Evaluated in this study are 20 elementary school teachers' responses to a categorical statement concerning teacher decision-making. The statement used was: "Teaching depends on dividing the school day into chunks of time for each separate subject-matter area." Using the results, the way the 20 teachers talked is described and analyzed,…
Descriptors: Decision Making Skills, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Professional Autonomy
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Mastropieri, Margo A. – Journal of Special Education, 2001
This article discusses the challenges faced by a first-year special education teacher at a public high school. Challenges included issues such as behavior management, deciding what to teach, scheduling and time, working with a paraprofessional, collaboration and mainstreaming versus inclusion, paperwork and meetings, and training and support.…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Disabilities, Job Satisfaction, Paraprofessional School Personnel
Miller, Greg, Ed. – 2000
These proceedings contain 48 presentations and 15 poster abstracts. Papers include "Computer Tasks Required in Selected Undergraduate Agriculture Courses" (Johnson, Ferguson, Vokinnns, Lester); "College of Agriculture Faculty Perceptions of Electronic Technologies in Teaching" (Dooley, Murphy); "Steering Through Turbulent…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Sciences