Discusses the need for coordinated efforts between an organization and its staff development support that are congruent with the articulated goals of the district, the school sites, and individual members of the organization. Strategies are presented for changing the role of staff developers in renewal efforts that support a learning organization.…

British Columbia's systemwide educational reform efforts enable teachers to engage in classroom-based research while building a learner-focused curriculum. This article describes the province's teacher research efforts, underlining important implications for educational policy. Teacher research permitted teachers to honor schools' educative…

Describes the Bangkok Project, a successful application of electronic mail and computer conferencing networks to support professional development in the field of distance education. The development of the computer conference to supplement a face-to-face conference in Bangkok is explained, and conference format and nature of interactions are…

Presents responses to a teacher survey asking how computers and technology impact the classroom. Results indicate teachers are no longer technophobes; 99 percent work in schools with computers; most want better training; half believe technology improves teaching quality and student achievement; and the videocassette recorder is the most popular…

The highly visible, large-scale research agreements between corporations and research universities imply that higher education's principle roles in economic development are applied research and technology transfer. This is misleading, masking the contributions through education and training, research, and professional development and suggesting…

According to a recent survey, both school board members and secondary principals support reform proposals involving professional development schools, magnet schools, teacher certification, and teacher empowerment and are opposed to school choice. The groups disagree concerning teacher accountability issues. Implications are discussed. (five…

Models presented by four Florida school systems that have attempted to link teacher evaluation, teachers' professional development, school improvement offer intriguing possibilities for educational change. Their conversation has raised number of questions about what should be evaluated and in what ways. Need for teachers to be able to take risks…

Reviews early history of Council on Rehabilitation Education (CORE) through discussion of CORE's development, recognition, and foundation research at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Describes CORE's multistakeholder program evaluation process and discusses current trends and issues in accreditation of rehabilitation counselor education.…

Supportive supervision softens the hierarchical supervisory relationship by formally redistributing authority between administrators and teachers. The coaching metaphor emerging from the self-directed supervision option foreshadows the extinction of the superordinate/subordinate relationship. Supervisory situations may evolve into relationships…

In addition to traditional competencies required of teachers, working in professional development schools calls for six additional attributes for professional self-efficacy: reflective/reflexive, flexible/adaptive, desiderative, collaborative, conational (will to act), and communicative. (IAH)

Although each of the partner schools which were developed during the 10-year partnership between Brigham Young University and 5 Utah school districts is unique, the partner schools share 4 common components: preservice education, inservice development, curriculum development, and research and evaluation. (IAH)

Establishment of a professional development school by Arizona State University and Tempe (Arizona) Elementary School District has provided opportunities for teachers to make curriculum decisions, shape school procedures and policies, engage in collaborative activities with school and university faculty, and develop greater autonomy. (IAH)

As part of Alberta's Educational Quality Indicators initiative, Spirit River School Division used staff, parent, and student input to develop indicators of effective teaching: 26 teacher behaviors related to planning and preparation, communication skills, teacher-student relationship, and instructional strategies. The indicators provided a basis…

Reviews systems approaches as a way of analyzing a distance-education professional-development program and, in particular, issues of management. The strength of the systems approach lies, among other things, in the ways it relates distance-based professional development to environments both internal and external to the institution. (Author/AEF)

Focuses on issues of teacher education that concerned contributors to the journal 25 years ago and reflects on how they have developed. Suggests that there has been a loss of intellectual vitality over this period and blames this on government policies, especially the extension of market principles to education. (DSK)