Anecdotes describe how outdoor education provides active-learning experiences by involving students in direct interaction with each other and the real world. Outdoor education reveals the inherent natural connections between different branches of knowledge by accessing and honoring multiple modalities of thinking and expressing, and encouraging…

Eleanor Duckworth, professor of education and former student and colleague of Jean Piaget, discusses her theories of teaching and learning and some of her own learning experiences as a teacher. Author of "The Having of Wonderful Ideas," she grounds her work in Piaget's theories of intelligence, trying to engage learners with their own ideas. (CDS)

Describes and interprets personal experiences as an "out" gay male academic who addresses issues of sexualization in his work. Discusses events that have impacted on curricula, on student and collegial relations, and on practices and cultures of university settings. Concludes that sexualization in academia is a contradictory process. (DSK)

Revisits the issue of the native versus the nonnative speaker in the area of English language teaching. The main goal was to examine the teaching behavior of two groups of teachers, native and nonnative, who have exhibited differences not only in terms of their language backgrounds, but also in terms of their qualifications and relevant teaching…

Explains how an experienced teacher is trying to incorporate Houghton Mifflin's new reading series, "Invitations to Literacy", into her elementary school classes. Discusses reasons for a standardized reading program, including high student mobility, younger less-experienced teachers, and a lack of accountability; and considers whole…

To enhance effectiveness, teachers should analyze memories of successful learning experiences and teachers, share enthusiasm about their subject with students, blend plans for professional and personal growth, choose appropriate teaching and classroom-management styles, develop portfolios charting progress, participate in support groups, and build…

Presents a letter from a Peace Corps volunteer and first-year teacher about his experiences teaching English at a Russian school. Describes courses of study, the ever-changing schedule, his problems in the first semester adapting to Russian ideas of teaching, and his successful struggle to apply the education he had learned to this new teaching…

Explores the epistemological shift embedded in one preservice program that puts extended teaching experience first in the process of learning to teach. Emphasizes the role and power of experience in learning to teach. It responds to Jones's paper on the 10 dichotomies in teacher education (SP 527 128), relating them to the notion of early teaching…

Presents the results of an analysis of diaries of novice English-as-a-Second-Language teachers. General themes that emerged were novices' early preoccupations with their own teaching behavior, transfer and rejection of teaching skills used in the novice's own second-language learning, discoveries about effective teaching, and continued teaching…

Examined preschool teachers' views on selected aspects of their working environment, particularly their interactions with parents, as determinant measures of quality in preschools. Found that while there are some differences between teachers according to qualifications and experience, among the most positive features are satisfaction with parents'…

Although the prior teaching experience of students of educational administration is usually ignored for purposes of program planning, the experience can be important in developing an administrative perspective. Drawing on conceptual change theory, a curriculum framework can be designed to foster the beginning stage of a cognitive shift during…

Uses a collaborative ethnography to explore how novice music teachers learn to teach elementary general music. Discusses the interaction of theory and practice. Presents an emergent set of assertions illustrating students' initial images and beliefs of teaching and a student profile illustrating the process of learning to teach music. (CMK)

Presents an interview with Susan Snyder, a ceramic artist who produces pottery inspired by Italian designs from the 13th to 18th centuries. Presents her discussion of topics such as her development as an artist, techniques used when creating her art, and her thoughts on the importance of art education. (CMK)

Provides information and suggestions for potential candidates in the community college job market in languages and literature. Discusses the mission of community colleges and characteristics of their students; teaching opportunities and experiences in community colleges; reasons to teach in a community college; applying for a position; faculty…

Describes the interactions among 4-year olds engaged in outdoor play at a preschool, where overnight rains filled the center's sand area and students improvised activities in the wet sand. Notes how, during the discovery exercise, students worked together as teams. Concludes that the measure of quality in early childhood programs must not be…