This article reports on the results of a survey of beginning teachers who were asked to evaluate their training for the profession in the light of their first year of actual experience. Eighteen teachers were observed and interviewed throughout their first year of teaching. Two themes emerged from their responses: a realization of the limits of…

The statistics in this report--number of positions, salary, degree status, experience, age, sex, and certification status--are detailed for all nonteaching and teaching professional positions within professional field and for public school teachers within geographic region in the state of New York for the years 1978-1979. (JD)

The exploratory interview is one field method for studying how professionals write as part of their jobs that is also an effective device for preparing composition instructors to teach technical writing. This field research method is a loosely guided discussion in which the technical communicator ranges freely, widely, and in depth about personal…

The Experimental Program in Elementary Education (EXEL) at Shepherd College in West Virginia began in 1973 with authorization by the West Virginia State Department of Education. The program was developed with the hope of producing more confident and competent teachers. EXEL provides continuous field experience from the second semester of the…

This study compares the mathematics achievement and attitude toward mathematics of preservice and experienced elementary school teachers. The research population included teachers from public and private colleges throughout the state of Texas and inservice teachers from suburban communities in the Houston area. Subjects were given an…

This document outlines an interdisciplinary graduate program for unit leaders in the multiunit elementary school. Emphasis is placed on participants; selection criteria; program format; instructional materials; objectives related to curriculum, instruction, assessment and evaluation, staff development, staff leadership, and secondary objectives;…

The purpose of this study was to ascertain whether elementary school principals were as knowledgeable about reading instruction as classroom teachers; whether classroom teachers viewed their principals as a main source of assistance in reading instruction; and whether professional courses, experience, preference for teaching reading, and…

The Eighth Annual Report on the characteristics of newly appointed certificated personnel in California Community Colleges for the academic year 1974-75 provides relevant data from 102 public and 6 private community colleges. The full-time staff of instructors, counselors, librarians, and administrators were reported as 15,834. 1,103 new full-time…

In order to determine whether differences exist between undergraduate music majors preparing for teaching careers in music and experienced secondary-level choral teachers in regard to their ability to detect pitch errors, a Pitch Error Detection (PED) test was developed, and a questionnaire designed to retrieve information about the subjects'…

To provide an art education model outside traditional boundaries for experience and field work and to expand its teaching directions, William Paterson College has added rehabilitation and special education to its program. The program in art education was expanded and an experimental model prepared and developed for use in the New Jersey State…

The Personalized Experiential Preparation (PEP) program is a field-centered, competency-based teacher education model that offers an alternative route to professional preparation and certification for students at Harris Teachers College, St. Louis, Missouri. The program is individualized and flexible enough to allow each participant to set his own…

The primary purpose of this study was to identify and describe individual differences in teaching style (i.e., teachers' patterns of questioning and explaining) in a standardized teaching situation. The secondary purpose was to explore relationships between teaching behavior and other teacher characteristics: teaching experience; sex and selected…

This book is an account of one teacher's attempt to use English literature as a vehicle of self-discovery for both his adolescent students and himself. The first chapter, "Stumbling into New Techniques," relates some of the techniques used to encourage student writing and to stimulate an appreciation and understanding of poetry--to help…

Two studies were made of the attitudes of prospective white teachers toward inner-city schools. The first study investigated whether 250 prospective white teachers from a major teacher training institution held more positive attitudes toward suburban or inner-city schools. Osgood's Semantic Differential (SD) revealed that the subjects held…

In an effort to bridge the gap between theory and practice, the Education Department of the College of Steubenville initiated the Early Experience Program to operate in conjunction with the required course of study for all full-time elementary education majors. The program places freshman through senior students in the classrooms of schools…