Supplementary report to an article on the same subject appearing in Die Neueren Sprachen", March 1970 issue. (DS)

Young teaching candidates are prepared in a subject field but totally uncommitted to basic teaching because so little attention is given to providing adequate teacher education. (IR)

This response to an article by Donna Kerr (Teachers College Record, Spring 1983) stresses the importance of teacher salaries as a means of attracting talented college graduates to teaching. Teacher effectiveness is greatly influenced by classroom experience. Improving preservice teacher education may have a limited effect on teacher improvement.…

Describes and illustrates Williamsburg Area Community College's two-dimensional faculty salary system, with vertical steps representing teaching and trade experience and horizontal steps representing educational preparation. For each cell of the resulting matrix, a unit value is defined and translated into dollar amounts added to a predetermined…

Shares the reflective processes of three student teachers as they became conscious of their personal and professional perceptions of the teaching of writing. (HOD)

In Markham v. Geller, a policy of attempting to hire less experienced teachers was held in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA). This article examines the case's significance for the interpretation of the ADEA and the case's impact on the question of business justification. (Author/MLF)

Teacher judgments of student need for compensatory education were found to agree moderately with student scores on the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (CTBS). Accuracy of teacher judgments was not influenced by student racial, ethnic, or economic characteristics, extent of individualization of instruction, or teacher training and experience.…

Research using a nomothetic approach, in which organizational or contextual factors associated with teaching are studied, reveals problems that teachers experience in: teacher-pupil relations; teacher-teacher relations; teacher-parent relations; orientation to the education system; and induction into the teaching profession. (CJ)

Describes intercultural teacher education programs in Canadian universities in general terms only, featuring selected programs as exemplary of the structure and focus of the new field. (Author/RK)

Self-selection appears to be a highly accurate screening device for levels of teaching at the University of Wyoming which offers the opportunity for 384 hours of classroom exposure prior to student teaching. (MM)

Re-examines some of the ideas of the "Writing Across the Curriculum" project from a classroom perspective. (Editor)

The Lolo experience involved 34 Teacher Year Alternative (TYA) students in a week-long field experience, during which they were paired with inservice teachers, observed their work, and then assumed full classroom duties while the teachers participated in a three-day workshop on humanistic approaches for classroom teaching. (MB)