Requests for administrator certification standards mailed to state directors of teacher education and certification produced replies from all states except Connecticut and Nevada. To handle the responses, a data collection framework was established that would allow for relatively easy comparisons among states of certification standards for…

Presented are the student text materials that accompany a workshop to give those with no previous teaching experience the basic skills needed to conduct simple training programs. The basic skills addressed include: identifying instructional needs, specifying objectives, planning the instruction, locating support materials, conducting the…

A study investigating the morale patterns of a group of 123 student teachers over the course of a 14-week period indicates a discernible pattern for three different groups. High and low morale patterns varied between groups of preservice teachers depending on their projected grade level specification. Early childhood, elementary, and secondary…

Using a specific teaching model as the criterion, three groups of elementary school teachers with differing levels of teaching experience were observed with a microcomputer recorder while teaching in their classroom settings. A step-wise discriminant analysis isolated specific motivational and instructional techniques from the model which produced…

An overview of educational opportunity in New York State, this study analyzed school district figures for school years 1972-73, 1974-75, and 1975-76. Figures for 1973-74 were omitted to reduce the amount of data. Results indicate that the average district offers 118 courses to junior and senior high students. Urbanized metropolitan areas offer…

To test Fuller's self-task-impact theory of teacher concerns, the factor structure of the Teacher Concerns Checklist was replicated with student, beginning and experienced teachers. The levels of concern across the experience categories were compared. Two factors emerged for each concern: (1) self concerns for student and pupil perceptions; (2)…

Data from a survey of 93 faculty women at Eastern Illinois University show that perceptions of sex discrimination still exist. The degree of perceived discrimination, however, is not as high as predicted. Findings also indicate that feelings of discrimination decrease as years of teaching increase, and that women in "masculine" fields…

THIS STUDY INVOLVED FOUR PREMISES ABOUT TEACHING--(1) THE DEVELOPMENT OF SYSTEMATIC, RATIONAL THINKING WILL IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF TEACHING, (2) RESEARCH TRAINING WILL HELP DEVELOP RATIONAL SYSTEMATIC THINKING, (3) GENERAL TEACHER EDUCATION OUTCOMES REFLECT THE QUALITY OF THINKING, AND (4) THE STUDENT TEACHING EXPERIENCE IS THE MOST CRITICAL…

A long-standing debate within the school counseling profession concerns requiring previous teaching experience as a prerequisite to certification for school counselors. Advocates of the teaching requirement argue that it is necessary for counselors to understand and empathize with classroom teachers. Opponents, although they agree with a need for…

A study to determine the relationship of a teacher's characteristics and experience to a learner's cognitive attainment of law-related content is discussed. Over 1,000 learners and 57 teachers who had participated in a Law in a Changing Society Workshop provided data for the study. The workshop provided participants with law-related materials and…

The feasibility of evaluating the performance of student teachers by observing the academic achievement of pupils was explored. The following questions were posed: Do expectancies of learners held by student teachers influence pupil achievement on a single instructional unit when prior achievement of pupils is held constant? Does the amount of…

This is the first part of a report of a large-scale national study of the induction of beginning teachers in Australia. The present research program was undertaken in the belief that this growing interest would be well-served by a better understanding of the nature of a person's transition from student in a teachers' college or university to…

The graduate courses and inservice teacher education workshops in Harrison County, W. Va. serve as a flexible model for inservice design. The description presented in this paper incorporates the followoing components of the teacher center model: (1) semi-annual needs assessment; (2) broad course topics; (3) team teaching techniques; (4) number of…

This paper contains eight components and is modular in the sense that it can be taken as a whole or in part. The first section is a pretest which attempts to analyze some measurable dimensions of a master's degree. The second section is a short presentation which shows how education must stress the affective and attitude dimensions of learning.…