Responses of preservice and experienced teachers to the Teacher Concerns Questionnaire (TCQ) were analyzed to investigate the validity of TCQ scores and gain insight into teacher concerns. Generally, the results support earlier studies, but findings regarding impact concerns indicate caution is needed when basing decisions on TCQ scores.…

Identifies and critiques a number of instruments that measure developmental aspects of play and leisure, the meaning and significance of leisure, attitudes toward play, the environment of play, and ethnographic and behavior stream methodology. Information on the reliability and validity of the instruments is presented. (SK)

Elaborates on directing theater while teaching English. States that working in an unfamiliar field with different students, materials, and skills is difficult, and the opportunity to sacrifice time, energy, and personal life for low pay and a chance to flop are disadvantages. But the academic and personal rewards make the experience worthwhile.…

Among the ways organizations are providing career development for supervisors are (1) in-house career resource centers, (2) individual development plans, (3) formal career paths or ladders, and (4) career counseling. (CT)

Examines the functioning of toddlers with physical anomalies (but without central nervous system damage) in comparison to premature toddlers (with similar deviant early experience but no deviant physical appearance) and to normal toddlers. Premature and disabled toddlers performed more poorly than normal toddlers in measures of social initiative,…

South American educator and author Freire discusses qualities important for the teacher, his vision of education and the growth of young children, and the role of language and reading in that vision. (HTH)

Aspects of the small liberal arts college's environment that contribute to the intellectual and personal development of faculty as well as students include accessibility, visibility, flexibility, the institution's desire for interdisciplinary inquiry, and a reward system for scholarship. (MSE)

Discomfort in learning environments forces individuals to change and develop new skills to solve problems. This helps learners attain their highest states of growth and productivity. Solutions for correcting marginality are offered. (DF)

Through personal reminiscence and description of professional contacts, the author examines her philosophy of writing. (CRH)

It is proposed that the career development theory of Super (The psychology of careers. New York: Harper & Row, 1957.) should be revised to include an additional developmental stage which occurs at midlife. To justify this proposal, a definition of a developmental stage is offered and findings from recent studies of male middlescence are…

Discusses the origins and growth of the teaching of English in secondary schools, with special reference to the subject's powerful sense of moral purpose. Research findings indicate that English instructors across a wide range of pedagogical orientation share the belief that good English teaching can achieve desirable changes in individual…

Individuals, to realize democracy, must try to establish their own dominion and supremacy by rejecting the rule of the mechanical and the impersonal in today's technological society. (MB)

The basic purpose of helping teachers to enrich the curriculum of their own classrooms is a common bond between teacher centers where teacher participation and individualized training develop professional creativity, and emphasis is placed on the fact that the major influence upon children's schooling is the teacher. (JD)

Individual autonomy and responsibility to society through declared goals of education can be realized only when teachers provide a learning environment in which pupils are encouraged to make autonomous judgments in an environment of cooperative relationships. (JD)

Suggests techniques and methods to be used by professional supervisors to develop people in subordinate working positions. Four major social and organizational trends are discussed which have implications for career development and personal growth, and emphasis is put on behavioral modeling by a supervisor as positive reinforcement for employees.…