Noting that most teachers find their own learning experiences in Reading Recovery very challenging, occasionally difficult, and sometimes frustrating, this paper explores the sources of these tensions and ways to maximize teacher learning while reducing anxiety and frustration. It discusses the nature of professional development (fidelity to…

This paper describes a research study that investigates the nonlinear process preservice teachers experience as they construct and reconstruct their individual teacher identities. By examining the process of preservice teachers who were re-arranging and interpreting their teacher identities within the framework of a university teacher education…

The annual "Maryland Teacher Staffing Report, 2004-2006," provides information about teacher candidates completing programs from Maryland institutions of higher education and the hiring needs of local school systems. The report also outlines a number of critical incentives and strategies for the recruitment and retention of quality teachers for…

The Senior Seminar/Freshman Colloquium at the University of Notre Dame, Fall, 1970, illustrated that teaching and learning are correlative and inseparable activities. Seniors and Freshmen learned from one another as nonspecialists by every standard of what constitutes intelligent, humane, liberal learning. (Author)

"From the findings of this study it can be inferred that experiences in the art class can have an important role to perform in developing the visual sophistication of disadvantaged learners... the art teacher is the key to effect behavior changes in disadvantaged learners and not in art, per se. (Author)

Assimilation and articulation of the non-English speaking child into the school program are associated with four variables and instructional arrangements that make reference to these variables. (Author/MF)

Research results indicate that student teachers' attitudes about classroom discipline change, from abstract idealism to realistic measures, after the student teaching experience. After student teaching, prospective teachers are more willing to use harsher methods of discipline and to consider disciplinary measures to be fair. (CJ)

A theoretical framework for the preparation of teachers through clinical laboratory experiences is presented. Four teacher roles and six purposes of clinical experiences are identified and arranged on an intersecting matrix, which can be a basis for designing clinical experience packages that integrate theory and practice. A sample package is…

Personal narratives from first-year English teachers reveal that the social system of the schools in which they teach, the instructional system and its accompanying curriculum requirements and restraints, and the nature of the student population become dominant in determining teachers' behavior and their attitudes toward teaching. (HOD)

A study of how teachers form initial impressions of pupils examined the relative influence of speech style, physical appearance, and written work on teacher judgments of pupils on a wide range of classroom personality and cognitive variables. Pupil voice and accent were found to be a strong influence in judgments about the child as a learner.…

Observation, in-depth structured and unstructured interviews, and open-ended questionnaires were used to determine what being a teacher means to 35 public school teachers. Results focus on teachers' skills and development related to instructional mastery, classroom control, and social relations with students. (JN)