Describes a year spent as advisor for school newspapers in a junior high school and a senior high school, with the attendant confusion, frustration, chaos, and rewards. (TJ)

The author offers insights gleaned after one year of teaching, including thoughts on classroom control and discipline. (DS)

Describes a course in which student teachers become actively involved in children's learning experiences. (Editor/RK)

Introduces four categories of teaching knowledge: the "folkways of teaching,""local mores,""private views," and "teaching expertise." Analyzes the "folkways of teaching," arguing that they are known by acquaintance, through participation, and as common sense. (Author/JDH)

The findings from a two-year longitudinal study of the development of teaching perspectives by four beginning teachers are reviewed. Individual responses of these teachers to the environment in which they worked and the extent to which these teachers abandoned or maintained perspectives they began with are examined. (Author/DF)

Analysis of responses of 73 West Virginia regular teachers responding to a survey on job satisfaction suggested that teachers at the secondary or high school level experience lower job satisfaction than those working in middle or elementary schools. Further differences exist among teachers with varying amounts of experience with mainstreaming.…

Recounts an experience with a "stage prop" bomb made by the art department for a high school production of John Patrick's play, "Anybody Out There?" (EL)

Current theoretical discourse in teacher education has failed to provide an adequate rationale for teacher education. Structures which constrain and contain teacher education are identified with a view toward providing a context for an adequate rationale. Some key issues are discussed. (Author/MT)

Relates the author's experiences in his first few years as a primary teacher in Ontario, Canada, struggling for survival in the face of bureaucracy and questioning his choice of profession. Claims that most teachers go through a similar reexamination process as they face the realities of their work and develop professionally. (JD)

Presents a true-false test on typewriting instruction to illustrate the effects of educational lag, publishing practices, and deficiencies in preservice and inservice teacher education upon teaching methods. (SK)

Describes personal growth of a teacher who is influenced by research theories and, more importantly, the knowledge gained from working directly with individual writers. (CRH)

Compares the British induction scheme to the American Teacher Corps projects. (Editor)

A teacher describes his experiences in attempting to instruct middle school students to understand logic. (RK)

Discusses the advantages and disadvantages for teachers holding doctoral degrees to teach in high schools. A list of reasons why administrators should consider this teaching option was presented. (RK)

What happens to teachers during their probationary year? How far can their ideals or enthusiams survive the first critical months on the job? Here three teacher trainers talk about some of the problems which figure in their new anthology of young teachers' experience. (Editor)