This book is designed to provide a foundation in the principles of supervision and to serve as a handbook for the day-to-day problems that arise in supervising student employees in academic libraries. Chapters 1-3 describe the role of student employees in the academic library, the role of the student employee supervisor, and basic principles of…

For one educator, "Parents as Writing Partners" has been one of the most rewarding experiences of her teaching career. Her seventh-grade students got closer to their parents' thoughts and feelings through encouragement to reinforce their writing, conferring, and editing skills. When parents are asked to share in an assignment, they get closer to…

A study investigated teachers' experiences of educational and cultural change in adult education institutions. The initial assumption of the study was that the institutional shift from traditional teacher-dominated, face-to-face teaching to networked teamwork that emphasizes students' independence is not only a methodological or technological…

This paper is a presentation of a 10-year experiment in multimedia distance learning in English for specific purposes within the general framework of a 3-year management diploma in the French higher education system. It defines, analyzes, and rationalizes key elements in the technical evolution against a background of epistemological and present…

Nurses need to examine critically the effects of computerized curriculums on the teaching-learning process. (Author)

Female graduate students who identified female professors as role models viewed themselves as more career oriented, confident, and instrumental than female students with male faculty role models. Choice of role model was not similarly related to self-reports of stress in the student role or students' satisfaction with their department. (Author/MJL)

Offers a model which can be used to describe any given second language teaching method, as well as analyze different methods for their internal adequacy, similarities, and differences. (EKN)

Compared mother and teacher reports on two scales from the Adaptive Behavior Inventory for Children of the System of Multicultural and Pluralistic Assessment (SOMPA). Results indicate little agreement between mother and teacher reports. Mothers tended to provide higher ratings of adaptive behaviors than did teachers, irrespective of grade level.…

Describes the use of school-based evaluation systems in Australia. Evaluations are collaborative efforts involving teachers, parents, students, and relevant administrators. A seven step process for facilitating evaluations is outlined. (AM)

Some ingredients that help promote private school climate favorable to moral development include: moral education as a school goal; faculty discussions of school and personal values; a working honor principle; ethics included in curriculum; attention to classroom group relations; teachers used as role models; and student involvement in school…

Looks at schooling as exchange value represented by saleable job skills on exit from high school. Outlines duties and tasks for teachers and students both as managers and performers of the curriculum and discusses standard work skills, concepts, and personal behaviors for exchange value in any occupation. (MF)

The view of Etzioni, that member socialization and communication tend to define orientations toward consensus (and in turn role performance) was tested using students in a college classroom. The Etzioni model was moderately predictive of role performance, while addition of a cost-benefits factor boosted explained variation. (Author/GDC)

Describes two projects that illustrate students' helping teachers use technology. In the Teacher Resources Under Student Tutors (TRUST) project, middle- and high-school students collaborate with teachers on a specific lesson. In the global videoconferencing SAXophone (Students All over the world eXchaning over the phone) project, middle and high…

Unless the higher education community itself, primarily students and faculty, responds immediately and forcefully to the issue of underfunding and widespread retrenchment, higher education as we know it will cease to exist. Problems include shrinking state financial and political support and absence of a compelling national security need.…

This article on inclusive education proposes a continuum of "explicit" to "implicit" instructional approaches, which expresses a range of amounts of teacher assistance provided and levels of expected student responsibility for learning. Research on such a continuum is reviewed and implications are drawn for instructional design in reading and…