Drawing on 5 years' experience with collaborative activities, examines school leadership's role in creating and supporting an appropriate ambience for collaborative inquiry among teachers. Leaders can become participant-learners who contribute to a collective understanding of this practice. Learning together furnishes a sturdy scaffold for further…

Explores the school-to-adult life transitions of special needs students in inclusive schools, investigating collaborative activities to facilitate transition. Profiles of three urban and rural high schools derived from administrator, teacher, parent, and student reports highlight consistent patterns in levels of collaboration exercised in working…

Drawing on a study of an experimental teacher education program, the paper recommends changes that prepare new teachers to assume greater leadership responsibility, particularly for collaborative curriculum design and implementation. Teacher educators must model these practices in teacher education coursework. A pedagogy of collective action…

Explores the interconnection between academic historians and the schools. Discusses the efforts of the Teaching Division of the American Historical Association, the barriers between academics and working teachers, and two recommendations to achieve progress in this area (collaborative professional development and addressing educational issues of…

Interviewed cooperating teachers to determine how they defined successful student teaching experiences and what they believed could enhance their success as mentors. Results highlighted the importance of mutual learning relationships and the need for greater support and collaboration from university faculty. Unsuccessful experiences resulted from…

Examines the context and organization of Norway's teacher education, discussing teacher roles and responsibilities, preservice and inservice teacher education programs, and society's expectations that teachers will act as masters, mentors, and mothers. The paper describes recent curriculum developments and the organization of Norway's educational…

This article reports on a collaborative program at the University of Wisconsin among secondary level science, mathematics, and special educators. The program emphasizes coordinated courses and fieldwork experiences to students across disciplines delivered by an interdisciplinary cohort of instructors. Evaluation of program outcomes finds increased…

Describes a professional-development project designed to establish a community of learners among high school teachers. Diverse English and history teachers met twice monthly for two-and-a-half years to read and discuss fiction and history, develop an interdisciplinary humanities curriculum, and videotape and view classroom instruction. Teachers at…

English teachers have three frustrating goals: to teach writing, increase appreciation of literature, and instill mechanics and grammar. High schools should borrow from college practice and split composition and literature courses. Using a writing-across-the-curriculum approach would require collaboration with teachers in other disciplines. (MLH)

A study examined the teaming efforts of a master-level, preservice, transdisciplinary team as reflected in a conversation during a planning meeting. The use of problem solving, conflict avoidance, role expansion, and role release techniques are described. Implications are discussed for intervention teams in the schools and preservice preparation…

Describes an effective model for a collaborative approach to designing integrated multimedia materials for language courses. The University of Winnipeg is successfully using the model to create a first-year French course. The model includes collaboration between departments, colleagues, and instructors with their students to design a…

Followed two preservice physical education teacher cohorts, one from a Professional Development School collaborative, to determine the benefits of collaboration. Observations and interviews with student teachers, cooperating teachers, and administrators showed trends from apprehension to receptivity and recommitment to the teacher education…

Describes how teachers and university researchers collaborated to discuss the teaching of students at-risk due to various social and economic barriers. They used action research to better understand unique teacher identities shaped in classroom settings with large numbers of these students. Teacher stories revealed that, as key interagency team…

A survey of special education (n=95) and general education (n=73) co-teachers found they had little scheduled mutual planning time. Teachers agreed about who takes responsibility for evaluation, but each group believed itself more responsible for instruction and behavior management. Few teachers experienced the teacher preparations rated most…

Describes a development in high school psychology called the Psychology of Partnerships Project (P3). Addresses the creation of national teaching standards in psychology and considers the uses of computer technology. Advocates a new national survey to evaluate high school psychology education. (CMK)