A proposal is made for creating a one-month study unit for the study of Haiti by eighth grade, social studies students. Background information on Haiti's geography, population, economy, culture, and history is provided. Ideas for three lesson plans on Haiti include the iron market in Haiti, Haitian history, and the role of voodoo in Haitian…

This document contains reflections upon several decades of teaching and learning in the field of global education. Developments made in global education during the 1960s and 1970s are a main focus and a set of homilies--a distillation of what the author has learned about global education--are put forth. (DB)

To investigate the impact of an inservice program on the concerns and needs of secondary teachers toward mainstreaming, questionnaires were administered to 127 experimental and 127 control teachers. Treatment consisted of an inservice program on mainstreaming conducted by an in-house consultant. The pre- and post-treatment questionnaires included…

Surveys regarding attitudes toward special education were completed by 1,232 regular classroom teachers in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi. Analysis was performed on survey responses and measures of teachers' experience, level of education, number of special education courses taken, class size, number of special education students in the…

Three generations of farm families have benefited from the knowledge and talents of Virgil Telfer, Martinsville, Indiana, High School vocational agriculture teacher for 46 years. (Author/MW)

In November 1984 and April 1985, two national conferences devoted to the topic of teacher induction were hosted in Austin, Texas, by the Research and Development Center for Teacher Education at the University of Texas, Austin. These conferences were a part of the center's ongoing research in teacher induction, the most recent effort of which was…

A qualitative case study was designed to explore the work experience of six high school English teachers. Teachers were observed over a five month period. No formal, systematic rating scale or observation instruments were used; the observer relied upon his experience as a high school teacher and on specialized training in curriculum theory and…

Using a sample of 115 second-and third-grade teachers with five or more consecutive years of experience it was shown that teachers do affect student learning to a degree that is practically and statistically significant. Teacher effects were especially robust in the data from Title I schools serving disadvantaged populations. (Author/RC)

The study identified, compared, and reported the various student teaching and internship programs in business within the North-Central area of the National Business Association. (SA)

The study reported here investigated the relationship between early field experiences and the concerns of students preparing to become teachers. (CS)

Teacher suggested that involving parents to read children's literature is a way of stimulating students to become better readers. (RK)

The 42 teachers enrolled in a graduate reading course participated in a study examining the application of the Rauding Scale and the SEER technique, two global readability procedures. After a lecture on the topic of readability, the teachers rated eight passages with both readability formulas, and these ratings were compared to the predetermined…

This first phase of a 5-year study of staffing trends in California junior colleges surveys 78 public junior colleges and examines 1310 new, full-time faculty members hired in fall 1967. The data will be compared with those collected during the following four years. Experience categories were (1) none, (2) secondary teaching, (3) elementary…