Examined how five teacher leaders perceived themselves and others as they worked in their leadership roles. Interviews with five practicing teacher leaders indicated that their simultaneous needs for achievement and affiliation created a conflict in the school workplace that had negative outcomes. Important supports for teacher leadership included…

Shares thoughts about a recent teaching experience that may speak to two current and related issues of importance to English studies, those of part-time and adjunct staffing and of the full-time faculty's responsibility for and involvement in the design, supervision, and instruction of lower-division courses. Considers the reintegration of tenured…

Investigates the methodological issues that should be considered in order to link school-university partnerships to students' literacy learning. Suggests that researchers of teacher education initiatives should develop concerted efforts using appropriate research methodologies to investigate the impact of partnerships on student learning. (SG)

In a two-year program, general educators and gifted education specialists at 10 elementary schools collaborated to provide differentiated educational experiences to gifted learners. Results indicate the Catalyst Program was an effective delivery system for providing differentiated education to gifted learners and had positive spill-over effects…

Describes the benefits of "topic teamwork," an interdisciplinary model designed to make integrative teaching a well-structured, cooperative effort involving all teachers and students. The article presents examples of and strategies for integrating physical education with other subject areas and for assessing topic teamwork, concluding that topic…

This article describes the development of collaborative partnership throughout the first year of a primary grade team including a classroom teacher, a graduate student providing special education services, and a university coordinator. It describes how collaboration allowed team members to meet the individual needs of children with learning…

Examines the importance of learning to teach for social justice, social change, and social responsibility. All teachers must learn to teach against the grain by collaborating closely with university- and school-based mentors to develop critique, challenge common practices, and engage in inquiry. Preservice programs must provide the social,…

Examines the experiences of a university researcher and a classroom teacher who shared the work of teaching 6th grade science. Interprets the shared collaboration stories of teachers by using models of social identity that employ performance metaphors in the construction/deconstruction of multiple identities. (Contains 34 references.) (Author/YDS)

Describes how several elementary teacher educators are learning to practice what they teach by integrating methods courses. This involves taking action to coordinate what occurs in each course and integrate what they do and how they do it, with a focus on interdisciplinary instruction. The process of learning to integrate methods courses involves…

Describes an action research project conducted while teaching a course about action research. Eight doctoral students and a professor co-taught the course, demonstrating aspects of action research and modeled research methodology for their students. The project helped them study their own teaching and their students' learning and demonstrated…

Assesses faculty and staff development needs in Alabama's two-year colleges. Indicates that faculty and staff have a primary interest in development in the following areas: instruction-related skills; collaboration; organizational issues; and technology. Contains three data tables, three appendices and 18 references. (JDI)

Describes the Six Universities Development and Rehabilitation Project (SUDRP) conducted at six Indonesian universities by faculty from Colorado State University. Suggests that the collaborative methodology used for instruction was highly successful and could be incorporated into other faculty-development programs. Contains one figure and 11…

Introduces a theme issue on mentorship. The articles focus on what mentorship means in a variety of contexts and suggest where future research in this area is heading. The diverse perspectives cut across cultural contexts, subject areas, educational levels, and learning experiences. Articles share reflections situated within the university and…

Describes the long-time, collaborative, co-mentoring relationship that developed between two university professors who were good friends prior to being collaborators, explaining how the co-mentoring creates a creative, democratic space for the formation of insights and understandings that help them search for and choose themselves in different…

Describes the 5-year-old Professional Development School (PDS) relationship between the Mary Munford Model School near Richmond, Virginia, and Virginia Commonwealth University. The PDS focuses on goals of the Holmes Partnership. This paper looks at the stories of a classroom teacher and a university educator involved in the PDS. (SM)