Outlines the Mathematics and Science Relicensing Program developed by the New York City Board of Education to resolve problem of a shortage of science and math teachers in New York City schools. Working with nearby universities, teachers already working in the system are retrained. This overcomes high cost of initiating new teachers into a system…

This article presents stages of gifted program inservice and staff development and correlates those stages with the target groups (teachers, administrators/policymakers, parents, students, and others) that would benefit most from each stage. Stages of entry are: awareness; orientation; curriculum design; advanced teacher training; parental…

Research suggests teacher behavior is a by-product of information processing strategies, which enable teachers to read the classroom environment. This paper suggests that preservice teachers can learn through cognitive discrimination training to approach the classroom as an experienced teacher would. (MT)

This study was designed to examine to what degree teacher candidates who have not taught share the charactertistics of influential teachers as defined by five characteristics involving personal and professional attributes. The pre-teacher performance profile was markedly similar to that of influential teachers. Implications are discussed. (MT)

Reports the findings of a two-year field study examining the reciprocal influences of home and school on women teachers. Case studies of eight teachers included day-to-day observations and comparisons with data gained from interviews with 42 other teachers. (RH)

Irmscher relates some of his experience as a master teacher and editor and calls for the discipline of rhetoric to reach higher levels of understanding through cooperation of its practitioners. (CRH)

The author, a distinguished art teacher and former HMI for Oxfordshire, argues that the training of primary school teachers has taken a wrong direction. (Editor/RK)

The major objectives of the study "Influence of Institutional Climate Perception on the Professional Aspirations of Teacher Educators" are: (1) To estimate the relationship between professional aspirations and institutional climate perception for the total sample and relevant sub samples; and (2) To test whether the comparable…

The United States Department of Education (2002) predicts that over 2.2 million teaching positions in kindergarten through twelfth grade will need to be filled over the next ten years. Given the demand for classroom teachers, forty-seven states have created alternative route teaching certification programs to recruit individuals who have earned…

States vary in the degree to which they require prospective teachers to complete coursework, accumulate student teaching experience, and perform on written examinations before they are granted entry into the classroom. In recent years, the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence (ABCTE) has devised a primarily examination-based…

For teachers, demonstrating that the classroom is a safe environment for all students, and that respect is expected at all times, is vital. For these two things to occur, open lines of communication between the teacher and students are key. While preparing lesson plans as a first year graduate teaching assistant in composition, an instructor…

This study was an attempt to determine science teachers' teaching styles and to examine the relationships between these styles and teachers' demographic characteristics. To achieve these purposes, Teaching Style Inventory and Background Questionnaire were administered to science teachers in Tallahassee, Florida. Data analysis indicates that…

This study examined differences in student achievement on the 2000 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) mathematics test by their teachers years-of-experience teaching mathematics. Data examined were mean scale scores or and eighth grade national, national public school students, and eighth grade Kentucky, Tennessee, and Texas public…

This essay presents a discussion of how the tools and resources of open source education may demonstrably improve education quality. The main tenet of open education is to make educational assets freely available to the public. This is becoming easier and less expensive as network and multimedia technology evolves. Obstacles may stand in the way…

The purpose of this study was to explore and discover classroom management problems encountered by undergraduate science teaching assistants (TAs). Information about TA perceptions of classroom management problems was obtained to better understand how gender, teaching experience, and academic discipline affected their classroom management…