A teacher describes his personal experience in working with black students in a community college classroom and how he responded to and dealt with his own uncomfortable feelings about a learning mode which differed from any he had previously encountered. (Editor/RK)

Beliefs and perceptions about diversity of a sample of 75 regular education teachers in Spain were investigated to (1) analyze and contrast their views in personal and professional contexts, and (2) ascertain if these beliefs vary according to teaching experience. The "Personal and Professional Beliefs about Diversity Scale" survey…

This paper presents a meta analysis of the literature on special education teacher burnout. Discussion of a theoretical framework reviews theoretical models of burnout, especially Maslach's model, and stages and constructs of burnout. The meta analysis of 46 studies of special educator burnout with sufficient data for further quantitative analysis…

Teachers' self-evaluation can be used as a diagnostic means by principals and coordinators in order to know where the teachers need help. This study presents a self-evaluation form designed to highlight the needs that English teachers teaching across all levels (preschool-12) at a school in Lebanon had. It was divided into two parts: the first…

This case study examines the growth of Chris, a novice string teacher who, after two years of near-failing evaluations, successfully received tenure following his third year of teaching. Observations and interviews with Chris and his supervisors and mentors provided varied perspectives on his progress. Improvement came during the third year, when…

Since 1971 the BOCES Geneseo Migrant Center (New York) has been serving migrant farmworkers through an in-camp learning program. Teams of instructors provide survival-based instruction in English as a second language (ESL) and adult basic education to interested migrant adults and out-of-school youth. The instruction is provided in the migrant…

This cross-sectional, descriptive study explored seven aspects of elementary teachers' job satisfaction across six categories of years of teaching experience and by gender. Surveys were mailed to 4,428 elementary teachers in 129 Ohio restructuring public schools. The surveys collected demographic data and measured job satisfaction using the…

This paper reports on a phenomenological case study that explored the blossoming and wilting of an early childhood educator's career commitment and her eventual decision to leave the field. Spanning a 7-year period, the study employs representation and analysis of metaphors as heuristic tools to illuminate the lived experience of becoming, being,…

This book represents the results of a 15-year study based on case studies of the development of four teachers' pedagogical thinking. It illustrates how teachers' thinking (about children's behavior, development, learning, and teaching) develops over time based on their personal and professional life experiences. Data come from regular, periodic…

A study of the experiences of a literacy teacher in the prison classroom chronicled the daily routine events and experiences that make up the life world of a teacher in the prison classroom. The introduction of this study emerged through the technique called opportunistic surveillance. The researcher, a prison teacher, engaged in…

Becoming a better teacher through active reflection is at best encouraged in graduate school, however Teaching Assistant (TA) training often focuses so intently on the "how" of teaching writing that it never reaches the "why" of teaching; TAs are left with an eclectic grab-bag of activities that they know "work,"…

This study was designed to better understand teachers as users of personal knowledge, examining teachers in inclusive one-teacher, Seventh Day Adventist schools. The study examined teachers' beliefs about teaching and learning, teachers' personal practical knowledge, teachers' professional identity, contextual factors that enabled or constrained…

Teacher job satisfaction is affected by a number of factors which can be taken into consideration in planning undergraduate preparation, by school administrators, and to evaluate potential jobs. (MS)

Discusses education for rural development in India: to prepare rural children and adults to find gainful employment in developing the resources of their village, to produce, earn and procure enough for a good life for all in each village. (Author)

Examination is made of the determinants of both absolute salary levels and recent salary increments of professors at Illinois State. Such variables as experience, scholarly output, teaching, administration, race, sex, committee work, degrees held, and the influence of outside market demand are considered. (SM)