Emergent research indicates that electronic portfolios (ePortfolios) can have a positive impact on the learning experience, but there are significant challenges--pedagogical and technological--which may limit their effectiveness. This paper contributes to research by providing further evidence about such challenges from the tutor perspective and…

This article states that a study should be undertaken focusing on the ways that teachers justify their classroom actions. (RC)

This study developed and evaluated a manual for the improvement of teachers' effectiveness in explaining. A class of 60 beginning teacher trainees was randomly divided into two groups. All subjects were given a pretest that required them to make three oral explanations in response to three questions asked by an experimenter; the questions and…

Secretary of Education, William Bennett responds to the five preceding papers which evaluate his teaching of a social studies lesson on Federalist Paper No. 10 to high school students. (MT)

A personal report of a school used as a model for open education. (MJM)

Analysis of films featuring teachers reveals a variety of roles portrayed: teacher as culture guardian, iconoclast/subverter, alien culture-bearer, change agent, learner, compassionate mentor, student advocate, maverick, and incompetent. Examination of these portrayals can prompt critical thinking about teacher responses to different social and…

All students are entitled to a respectful and meaningful education in this decade of No Child Left Behind, and yet attention to the gifted wanes with the emphasis on standards-based education and testing. Educators of the gifted have wrestled with this dilemma for many decades, even as early as the 1920s when Leta S. Hollingsworth, noted…

Test-based accountability programs are designed to promote improved standards of teaching and learning within the systems of education that they are connected to. Brenan [Brenan, A. L. (2006). "Perspectives on the evolution and future of educational measurement." In: Robert (Ed.), "Educational measurement" (4th ed., pp. 1-16).…

Ten suggestions are given that will help teachers and others cope with their daily frustrations. (RC)

This bulletin reports the findings of a major research study on the perceptions of teachers concerning behavioral disorders in children. A review of relevant literature includes incidence studies, teacher and clinical judgments, and referral investigations. Participating teachers were asked to respond to three categories of behavioral disorders…

Through case studies of three alternatively certified beginning teachers in predominantly Hispanic junior high schools in Los Angeles, this investigation looked at how concerns evolved over the school year, how concerns compared with regular teachers in non-difficult settings, and how various factors influenced patterns of concern. Results are…

Discusses the importance of two criteria often neglected on software evaluation forms: (1) the match between the instructor's objectives for a class and the objectives of the computer program and (2) the ease of transfer of the skills learned in the program to other situations. (AEA)

Suggests the issue of determining the relevant child characteristics that cause a particular teacher to form an expectation about a particular child. (MM)