Describes Saddleback Community College's involvement in California's Flexible Calendar Pilot Project, listing the activities undertaken by faculty during the 15 days of noninstructional time built into Saddleback's schedule and the benefits of the program. (AYC)

Issues relating to in-service education are highlighted including professional lifespace, resource allocation, validity, systemic designs, collaboration, and the responsibility for in-service education of teachers as professionals and employees. (JMF)

NIE feels that it has an important role to play as contributor and participant in the process of mediating the respective needs and expertise of the various constituent groups involved in in-service teacher education research. (JMF)

Addresses the needs of the faculty of adult education programs and examines strategies for heightening the competence of the educators as lifelong learning facilitators. Urges that the task of developing faculty skills and competencies be shared by graduate training programs, employing institutions, and individual faculty members. (JM)

Suggests ways teachers can keep abreast of professionally relevant techniques, research, and ideas. (DD)

Describes videotaped simulations of classroom incidents and interviews intended to elicit faculty discussion about teaching. The use of video as a discussion device is addressed and an analysis of vignette discussions is given. (RAO)

Professional roles are being transformed by technology and changing organizational structures. Continuing professional education may play a role in deskilling. There is increasing distance between the concept of contemporary academics and the idea of the intellectual. (SK)

Describes how the College of Education at the University of Kentucky is implementing Internet communications training for pre-service teachers and for teacher professional development programs. (RS)

Argues that the scholar-teacher, in the true sense of someone who works not only to diffuse knowledge through teaching but to advance knowledge through scholarship, is slowly but surely becoming an endangered species at American colleges. Suggests this trend is to due the tendency to see scholarship and teaching as unrelated. (TB)

Argues for the importance of a critical view of computers in which educators give careful consideration to the computer's good or bad effects on research and teaching. Asks how the educators can best integrate hardware, software, and the Internet into their professional lives. (TB)

Discusses findings of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future that indicate that high teacher turnover and attrition are the greatest threats to teaching quality. Topics include redesigning schools; redesigning teacher preparation programs; professional development; successful learning environments; and schools as learning…

Dutch 7th grade teachers were trained to apply either cognitive apprenticeship or direct instruction models in reading comprehension lessons. They received teaching guides with adaptations of their current reading curriculum. Control group teachers used the same curriculum with no teaching guides or training. In both experimental conditions,…

In England and Wales, Teacher Training Agency-funded professional development for teachers must be evaluated for its impact on students. It is the responsibility of higher education institutions to provide evidence of impact. A case study illustrates the possibilities and difficulties of providing such evidence. This article concludes that,…

Describes as research project that examined the types of professional development activities that best meet the needs of instructors involved in online course development. Discusses barriers that prevent instructors from participating, activities that were most helpful, and a collaborative model that allows instructors to learn actively while…

Reports on effects of educational interventions on faculty and administration knowledge of, and attitude toward, student course evaluations. Aims to assess whether attitudes can be changed through education. Results suggest that interventions were effective, and even moderate instruction had the effect of improving attitudes toward student…