According to the Nation's Report Card released by Education Secretary Richard Riley, 51% of students from Georgia scored below basic science understanding level, and 95% of African American students performed below grade level in science understanding. Valdosta State University serves in the region to improve science teachers' skills. This region…

The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) commissioned a study of the range and depth of pedagogic developments associated with the scholarship of teaching in higher education. This evidence-based review was designed to explore the relationship between pedagogic development (PedD) as supported through the Teaching Quality…

A mathematics pedagogy course was developed and co-taught by mathematics and mathematics education faculty to 22 teaching assistants (TAs) in the mathematics department. Its purpose was to allow TAs to examine their beliefs about the teaching and learning of mathematics and to support them in changing their teaching practice. The course consisted…

The authors report on the use of competency-based instruction as a tool in the professional development of postsecondary occupational educators and industrial trainers in Australia. (Author)

Argues that developing a critical praxis for teaching the young to "read the world" involves seeing the world in more than one way, so more than one definition of "normal" exists. Suggests learning to read the world means learning to see the coexisting multiple realities in daily life and to remain aware of those outside one's immediate view.…

Focuses on the instructional development of a professor of environmental engineering in collaboration with science education and higher education faculty members. Discusses the results of professional development in the areas of questioning strategies, thinking time for students, facilitating students' participation, and implementing…

Explores oral and written works (plays and rap songs) of students in a sixth grade, all African American, urban science class to reveal ways in which affective and social aspects are intertwined with student cognition. Interprets student work in terms of the meeting of various genres brought by students and teachers into the classroom. (Contains…

Describes sources for upgrading a methods course for teaching science in middle and high schools and solicits input from science supervisors for course improvement. (KHR)

Examined the effects of professional development on teachers' instruction using a purposeful sample of about 207 teachers across 5 states for 1996-1999. Professional development focused on specific instructional practices increased teachers' use of those practices in the classroom, and specific features, such as active learning opportunities,…

Suggests that the teaching of free expression may be the highest calling of a communications or journalism professor. Argues that freedom must be tempered by a sense of ethics. Calls upon teachers to encourage students to analyze the questions surrounding free expression. Describes techniques for scrutinizing journalistic myths. (SG)

Focuses on the nature and role of teaching principles. The article discusses the nature of teachers' maxims through analysis of teachers' accounts of their teaching and lesson protocols. Findings indicate that these maxims reflect cultural factors, belief systems, experience, and training. Understanding the importance and influence of these maxims…

Suggests that communication faculty should work toward structural realignments in universities to encourage cross-disciplinary work; design majors around competencies, not departments; encourage interdepartmental "communication dialogues"; read a broad range of literature and work toward expertise in a topic, not just a discipline; attend more…

Shares insights of an English teacher gained through a variety of teaching experiences. Describes how the Bay Area Writing Project provided effective strategies to improve the teaching of writing. (NH)

Julia sits down at her kitchen table to review tomorrow's lesson framework and the activities mapped out for her students. She is excited about the new unit on "the changing role of media in shaping public policy" they will be starting. Yet she silently admits to herself being a bit nervous because she is going to try a new teaching strategy with…

This review essay challenges the practice of rooting educational theory in the economic assumptions that underlie the current championing of a knowledge society. It examines the approaches of three recent works: one book, Andy Hargreaves's Teaching in a Knowledge Society, and two edited collections, Barry Smith's Liberal Education in a Knowledge…