Effective teaching capsules were devised to disseminate current research findings to public school facilities. This method of staff development reports on effective teaching methods and subject matter information. (DF)

Discusses various aspects of faculty productivity. The article examines reasons why some faculty don't publish: opposition to the publish-or-perish pressure, commitment to teaching, insufficient time, and inadequate incentives. The author then describes characteristics of productive faculty and presents a model for professional development. (CT)

Describes the Holston Language Association, one of the three original pilot groups of the "Strengthening the Humanities through Foreign Language and Literature Studies" project. The association comprises teachers from high schools, colleges, and one community college in a three-county area of southwest Virginia. The association meets to have…

Describes the Tarrytown-Lakeland Foreign Language Teachers Association, a local, collaborative professional-development organization for foreign language faculty, which is a part of the "Strengthening the Humanities through Foreign Language and Literature Studies" project. Lists accomplishments of the project to date and five factors important to…

Preservice teacher education faculty members were interviewed to discover how they learn about research, how research is used in their classes, and how research that is useful in training prospective teachers is characterized. Findings and implications for further study are discussed. (DF)

Librarians can promote and improve their programs of bibliographic instruction through a faculty development effort on undergraduate use of the college library. Results of this kind of program have included improved course assignment formulation, imaginative assignments, and new, library-centered courses. (MSE)

A study of faculty development policies in 80 institutions and faculty behavior in four found that the degree of faculty participation in the programs and the degree of changed teaching was not significantly influenced by organizational factors and administrative policies concerning faculty tenure, promotion, and salary increases. (MSE)

Faculty associations are voicing the need to assume a more activist role in structuring the goals, objectives, and incentives related to professional development and curricular change. As a result, faculty development is emerging as a bargaining issue with potential far-reaching implications for professional renewal and institutional governance.…

Goal setting, empowering champions (individuals who make a difference in initiating change), faculty-initiated activities, and faculty-staff development opportunities are the four major factors in determining success in computing at the University of Georgia. Each of these areas is discussed. (JN)

According to the annual industry report in "Training" magazine, money spent on employee training dropped approximately six percent--the first time that training expenditures have dropped since the mid 1990's. At the same time, web-based training increased from 48% of all computer-based training to 61% in just one year (2002-2003). The…

College and university faculty face many demands on their time: research, teaching, service, committees, family, and other obligations. One of the major challenges faced by instructional support personnel at colleges and universities is to get their training efforts entered into the faculty members' busy calendars. This paper looks at a new option…

The rapid proliferation of reading coaches is one of the responses to increased attention to reading achievement and the achievement gap in the United States. In recent years, reading has been the focus of both state and federal reading initiatives. With the changing roles have come a variety of new titles, such as reading coach and literacy…

"Alabama Education News" is published monthly except for June, July, and December by the Alabama Department of Education. This publication, authorized by Section 16-2-4 of the "Code of Alabama", as recompiled in 1975, is a public service of the Alabama Department of Education designed to inform citizens and educators about…

Although school administrators consider supporting and sustaining teachers' professional development a priority, more pressing day-to-day imperatives often eclipse this goal. "Supporting and Sustaining Teachers' Professional Development" specifically targets busy school principals who want practical suggestions for how to balance these everyday…

This study explores the nature of teacher learning within the broader context of increasing state-level accountability, applying Levi-Strauss' bricolage metaphor to teachers' workplace learning. Based on the assumption that "problems of practice" serve as catalysts for learning, it addresses how teachers define and solve problems in…