Implementation costs for comprehensive school change designs (like the New American Schools models) vary widely. This article discusses the rationale and cost of each design element: principals and vice principals, instruction facilitators, classroom teachers, education specialists, struggling student strategies, professional development, teacher…

Three participants in the remaking of New York City's District Two tell the story of a decade-long (and continuing) collaboration between administrators and teachers to raise student achievement. They developed a plan for the district, creating big changes in organization that involved putting more money into teacher and principal development in…

Presents a brief history and discussion of the Internet. Discusses current and potential uses of the Internet among mental health counselors and ways in which the Internet can be understood from a postmodern perspective. Presents Internet use among the general population as a reason for counselors to gain an understanding of the medium.…

Describes a prepracticum which creatively incorporates adult learning pedagogy, service-learning, and a semester-long role play to bridge the theory-practice gap in the preparation of students for practicum-internship and professional practice. (Author)

Examines effects of corporate practice on schooling and teachers' professional development. The struggle over who owns educational knowledge has profound implications for professional identity formation. As schools are reshaped into corporations, administrators and teachers are pressured to improve their productivity and develop into enterprising…

Since teachers have the most direct, sustained contact with students and considerable control over the teaching/learning climate, improving teachers' knowledge, skills, and dispositions is critical to enhancing student achievement. Professional development must also address schoolwide professional community and school program coherence. Two…

Outlines a "twinning" program for staff development, involving collaboration between lecturers from the University of Glamorgan in Wales and the Bath College of Higher Education, England. Addresses the theme of professional development for academic staff, and reviews twinning experiences through an application of communication models to…

Focuses on the way norming sessions can function as sites of professional development that generate both individual classroom-based inquiry and group inquiry among teachers. Explores the effect of a site-based and rhetorically based model of assessment that attempts to engage teachers in continuous collaborative inquiry directly related to their…

Explores the evolving perspectives of six school members who served as tutors (three first-grade teachers, two Title I teachers, and the school principal) on professional development, classroom language arts instruction, and school-wide literacy curriculum. Describes how the program shifted to teacher development and curriculum reform as school…

Three "Handbook" chapters on school leadership responsibilities conclude that educational administration is a field where people can make a difference. Research provides firm indications of what administrators should or should not do. Constructivist teaching, teacher development, and school improvement are part of the larger challenge of…

Examined how, over a 1-year primary post graduate certification of education, student teachers in England experienced their professional learning and the extent to which this mapped onto the underpinning assumptions of the course process. Discusses students' experiences in learning to learn, students' motivations, function of teacher educators,…

Examines how Bloom's Taxonomy can be used by Montessori teachers-in-training as an explanation for the level of proficiency exhibited by supervising teachers. Focuses on the process of becoming a skilled Montessori teacher in the context of the taxonomy and how supervising teachers and training programs can guide student teachers to deeper…

Argues that research administrators would function more effectively and enjoy their work more with a better understanding of research. Offers examples of how some basic principles of research design can be readily conveyed to administrators with little or no research training. Discusses ways research administrators might benefit from better…

This article summarizes efforts at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington to deliver mathematics teacher professional development using a Web site called INSTRUCT. The site is intended to assist middle and high school mathematics instructors in implementing the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics professional standards for teaching…

Introduces the Science Teacher Education Program (STEP) and its components which can be effectively used in developing countries such as Africa or in countries having problems with science achievement. (Contains 12 references.) (ASK)