Presents suggestions for principals who want to maximize the benefits of their beginning teacher mentoring programs. This includes: highlighting the mentoring program; selecting mentors; making appropriate teaching assignments; orienting faculty and staff; informing parents and students about the mentoring program; respecting confidentiality;…

Describes school-based autonomous supervision (SBAS), a Korean staff development strategy. SBAS involves supervisory activities performed by staff members in individual schools without outside control. SBAS characteristics include: school-centeredness; self-governance; cooperation; diversity; continuity; and self-development. To effectively…

Through reference to policy and research documents, this paper provides insight into how educational restructuring and reform are planned, presented, and implemented in Canada's Atlantic provinces, particularly Newfoundland and Labrador. It suggests that such reform and restructuring occur at the interface of a province's history, geography, and…

Describes Singapore's Thinking Schools, Learning Nation initiative, designed to foster thinking skills and equip students with the abilities and knowledge necessary to meet the challenges of the new millennium. The initiative includes such features as learner-centered schools, enhanced curriculum, information technology networks, additional…

Introduces papers from a symposium on changes in preservice and inservice teacher education in China. The papers focus on institutional and policy development, reform in China's secondary teacher education, the development and reform of Chinese teacher education, the integration of preservice and inservice teacher education, and the training of…

Multiple collaborative inquiry groups were established in a K-12 rural school for teacher professional development and school improvement. Outcomes included individual teacher renewal, creation of a network for teacher interaction, change in teachers' classroom behavior, and structural and cultural change in the school. (SK)

Describes the concept of and various forms of professional development in Australia, examining the personal professional development plans required in some Australian states and focusing on the effectiveness of professional development, teacher response to professional development, and the dynamic interaction between three elements necessary for…

Examines three models of teacher professional development in Israel. One model emphasizes higher academic studies, one is a school-based organizational model that ties faculty development to school reforms, and one emphasizes a teacher-led personal route to professionalism in teachers' own classrooms. The paper examines means of support available…

Outlines the purposes of three predominant kinds of master's degree programs for teachers in the United States: the Master of Arts in Teaching, traditional master's programs, and practitioners' master's programs that are designed to meet the professional development needs of experienced, committed classroom teachers. The paper discusses issues…

Presents models for balance in faculty role expectations, with two levels (individual and institutional) and two variations (continuous and balance over time). Provides strategies enhancing faculty productivity at the individual and institutional level and implications for nursing-faculty roles in changing health care and higher education…

Survey responses from 240 technology education teachers (two-thirds traditionally certified) showed no differences between alternatively and traditionally certified teachers in receptivity to change, participation in professional development, or type of development activity. Alternative certification is recommended as a way to alleviate teacher…

Describes elements of effective design and technology (D&T) teaching are as follows: learner autonomy, provision of an appropriate environment, resources to develop student capability, and motivation of students. Addresses considerations for teacher development and for designing activities and assessment. (SK)

Applies John P. Kotter's eight-stage process as a model to demonstrate how faculty leadership can evolve in an institutional-assessment process that promotes change in campus tradition. Supports the idea that because faculty are responsible for student learning, the process of involving them as leaders will enhance the quality of the outcomes.…

Examines the experience of a nationwide inservice teacher development project in Sri Lanka that aims to remedy the potential deficiencies of cascade models of teacher development. Shows how project training and development strategies that are context sensitive, collaborative, and reflexive seek to involve teachers in managing their own…

Depicts the experiences of representative new women and racial/ethnic faculty to illustrate the realities faced by these faculty in entering and managing the academic environment. Recommendations for enhancing the success of women and racial/ethnic faculty are divided into four levels of responsibility: university administrators, departmental…