Noting that teaching requires more than just knowledge of one's subject, this book analyzes the host of variables that affect the quality of English instruction and offers an "organic field model" of classroom English instruction. Following an introduction by Bruce Appleby, Chair of the Conference on English Education, the first chapter of the…

This document contains a workshop presentation for elementary mathematics teachers. The purpose of the workshop is to demonstrate methods for teaching computational concepts beginning with concrete materials and moving to expressing these concepts abstractly with numerical symbols. Section headings are: (1) "Introduction"; (2) "Sorting and…

In fall 1987, the Learning to Learn Subcommittee was formed at Miami-Dade Community College (M-DCC) to help design a formal course in teaching/learning theory, to identify effective student behaviors and teaching strategies to develop critical thinking skills, and to identify strategies to implement the "learning to learn" concept across all…

Three New York City public school projects funded by the New York State Education Department's Bureau of Bilingual Education had the common goal of improving the quality of instruction in schools that the state's Comprehensive Assessment Report (CAR) had designated as needing special assistance for raising low student performance levels. The…

Funds set aside by California Assembly Bill (AB) 1725 for staff development programs were used by the Desert Community College District (DCCD) to supplement its existing human resources development plan (HRDP). The HRDP, which was based on the results of a needs assessment of all employees, was designed to respond to the changing professional…

One promising alternative to the traditional workshop format of inservice teacher education is to bring researchers and teachers more closely together, in classrooms, where the two groups can work as a team addressing those needs the teachers have defined. A teacher and a researcher collaborated in a 3-month effort to improve the way the teacher…

Research has revealed that more males than females participate in computer learning environments. Rural young women in home and school are conditioned to accept outdated role definitions and may be limited in career and life choices by restricted access to technology and their perception of the female role in technology. In 1988-89, a year long…

This training manual is the first in a set of six manuals for Head Start staff compiled in response to numerous requests for effective training materials. The manual begins with a brief overview of the need for training and the philosophy of the resource and training center that prepared the manuals. The manual was prepared to provide workshop…

A pilot tutor training project, the Student-Tutor Orientation (STO), was designed to meet the need for making whole-language concepts of reading and writing instruction accessible to tutors as well as students through hands-on experience and for establishing a collaborative tutoring relationship in which students share in decision making.…

This study examined the perceived availability of funds for teaching support and faculty development, the importance of teaching in tenure and merit salary adjustments, and the level of financial support for faculty attendance at professional meetings and institutional support for global faculty development. Data were gathered from questionnaires…

To remedy the English composing problems of young deaf writers, 43 teachers were trained to teach writing as a process in a 2-year intervention program. Teacher workshops focused on developing a rationale for writing instruction, teaching writing as a process rather than as a product, promoting writing through dialogue journal writing, using…

The professional development school is an effort to invent an institutional coalition that will bring together universities, schools of education, and public schools. This report urges the creation of a relatively small number of schools as professional development schools (PDS), designed to be the focus of professional preparation, school…

This interpretive study focused on the involvement of four cooperating teachers in the first year of a state funded, collaborative inservice project in clinical supervision sponsored jointly by a major state university and a small private college. Purposes were to describe these teachers' views of teaching and learning and to learn how the…

A reflective coaching program was implemented to improve the professional work culture of a school district with morale problems because of labor disputes and strikes. An underlying principle of the program emphasized the role of teachers as the key instructional decision-makers for the classroom. The guiding principle for the teacher-coach…

This study is a replication of a 1983-84 study of state activity in the area of staff development. Survey questionnaires were mailed to the Chief Educational Officer in each of the 50 states; responses were received from all states. The study compares changes since the 1984 study and focuses on five basic objectives: (1) Which states through law…