A model for the self-evaluation and professional development of preservice teacher education students is presented. This model, which uses performance statements, provides prospective teachers with the opportunity to learn how to collect, assimilate, organize, and represent data and how to draw conclusions for self-appraisal. (JN)

The five myths which teacher educators should attempt to deal with involve: (1) claims that all teachers are ineffective; (2) inadequacy of teacher preparation programs; (3) adequacy of subject matter knowledge as the primary criteria for good teaching; (4) inadequacy of knowledge base in teacher education; (5) inferiority of education majors. (JN)

The quality of an educational institution is determined by the quality of its faculty. The first professional position will mold the attitudes and abilities of the young professor. Recently, new professors were surveyed as to their experiences as novices, and their responses are discussed. (JN)

A program in Illinois designed to combine a professional growth experience for teachers with a learning experience for children in a new type of summer school is described. (MP)

The challenge to teacher development in the 1980s focuses on three areas: (1) multicultural education; (2) diagnosis and prescription based on learning styles, as well as on achievement level; and (3) awareness of the differences in function of the right and left hemispheres of the brain. (JN)

Identifies the general characteristics of teacher centers that emerged from analysis of a survey of teachers involved in professional development through teacher centers. (RL)

Analyzed articles appearing between 1970 and 1978 in four student affairs journals to determine types of articles published and institutional rates of productivity. Authors from a small proportion of institutions were overrepresented. Compared with research articles, few literature reviews were published. (Author)

Results indicate that the workshop heightens the awareness of the subtlety of sex-biased communication on the part of counselors and stimulates their intentions to monitor and to change appropriately their own counseling behaviors. (Author)

Career opportunities for educators are growing in human resource development departments of business and industry. These careers call on the competencies of teachers in their roles as human service specialists and instructional systems designers. A program created to prepare students for such careers at Northeastern Illinois University is…

The field of student affairs is an emerging profession with its own distinct theory base and preparation criteria. Professional organizations need to collaborate on research and actions concerning professional issues. A workable code of ethics and a professional attitude by practitioners will insure progress toward professionalization. (RC)

Advocates teachers' use of personal writing for both personal and professional well being. (RL)

Institutional research is discussed as part of a planning, management, and evaluation system. It is suggested that unless it links directly to planning, institutional research will cease to exist as a separate organizational entity in this period of constrained resources. (Author/SF)

Consulting by faculty members is seen as highly beneficial to the organization and the university, as well as to the consultant. Not only does consulting benefit faculty incomes, but it also aids in (1) technological currency, (2) technology transfer, and (3) research inspiration. (MLW)

Examines causes of urban teacher burnout; offers suggestions to secondary urban reading teachers on ways to experiment with methods of evaluation, instruction, and selection of materials, as well as on ways to achieve self-growth and to model for their students continuous effort toward learning. (GT)

Governing boards or their Trustee Committees should identify, cultivate, and recruit prospective trustees; annually evaluate the board and its members; and nominate officers and other committee members. A model form that can be used to evaluate individual trustees is offered. (Author/JMD)