Opening activities at meetings should provide opportunities for people to get acquainted. Some examples are provided. (Author/MLF)

An inservice training program encouraging the use of audiovisual instruction by special education teachers is described through two case study examples.

Summarizes the findings and recommendations of a survey of teacher attitudes about inservice education. (IRT)

Public schools are spending millions on educational technology, but they are shortchanging the teachers and students who will use it. That is the unanimous conclusion of expert observers who have said for years that school leaders tend to buy technology before considering how to train teachers to use it effectively. (JOW)

Considering technology as a process of curriculum planning may lead to more effective use of it. Taking into account the curriculum orientation of teachers (intellectual traditionalist, social behaviorist, experimentalist) helps identify specific facilitators and barriers to their use of technology. (SK)

Describes the Mew Mexico Media Literacy Project, which has educators studying the pros and cons of consumer culture, training them to teach media literacy to their students. It considers literacy not just the ability to read the subject matter contained in the media but also to analyze it in order to understand who is sending the message, why, and…

Describes a group session involving 12 teachers of various ethnicities designed to encourage participants to foster a multicultural environment in their classrooms by increasing their awareness, knowledge, and skills in working with ethnic minority students. Participants' responded positively to the sessions. Feedback questions and answers and…

In an era of increasing accountability demands for teachers and students professional development will be the key to success in school reform initiatives as administrators struggle with improving the current teaching force. Research has shown that teacher efficacy is an important variable in teacher effectiveness that is consistently related to…

I report on what teachers in an Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE) inservice programme learned about probabilistic reasoning in relation to teaching it. I worked "on the inside" using my practice as a site for studying teaching and learning. The teachers were from three different towns in the Northern Cape province and had limited…

Reflective learning is a standard and largely unquestioned pedagogy of initial in-service professional education. This case study problematises the processes of reflective learning and examines the constraints on beginning professionals' reflection. The paper outlines a theoretical framework to enable understanding of the nature of reflective…

The preparation of science teachers to integrate computers in their teaching seems to be a challenging task, and teacher educators need to undertake systematic and coordinated efforts for effectively preparing teachers to teach with computers. The present study implemented a professional development approach for in-service science teachers…

A nine-item survey was administered to 47 New York City public school kindergarten through third-grade teachers to determine their experiences during training in the administration and interpretation of the Early Childhood Literacy Assessment System (ECLAS-2). Results show that most teachers found that their ECLAS-2 training was insufficient to…

Despite controversy in the literature, the present article assumes that the adult learning theory provides a powerful framework for evaluating training practices. This study explores the degree to which adult learning traits are embedded in optional seminars, the primary form of formal in-service teacher training in Cyprus and a traditional,…

Teachers' personal self-efficacy about their ability to motivate students and encourage learning has been shown to affect the classroom they create and student achievement. Therefore, research has been conducted on ways to increase teacher efficacy for in-service and pre-service teachers. One area of research that has been explored is the impact…