Outlines the development of an on-line English-as-a-Second/Foreign- Language teacher training course, a Distance Instruction for Adult Learning (DIAL) course. Discusses student orientation; faculty development and support; what the course is like; and the characteristics and challenges of on-line learning. (Author/VWL)

Describes teachers who made a difference in the author's literacy development and who fostered his love of learning and teaching. Discusses the importance of teachers growing as professionals. Describes various opportunities through the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) for teachers to share the good work that they do. Notes NCTE's…

Examines an attempt to encourage integration of knowledge learned in the academy with knowledge learned in practice as a means to challenge educational practitioners' (i.e., teacher leaders and inservice teacher educators) existing conceptions and beliefs and promote intellectual restructuring. (Contains 16 references.) (Author/ASK)

Discusses trends in policy concerning the evaluation and development of tenured college faculty, including the evolution of such policies, current policies, common approaches, and unifying principles that lead to successful implementation. Explores questions regarding impact, outcomes, costs, and benefits of post-tenure reviews. (Author/DB)

Investigated teachers' perceptions of professional development in teacher evaluation systems and processes, active participation of teachers in the evaluation process, and evaluation effectiveness, noting the relationships to each other. Teacher surveys indicated that providing training to teachers in teacher evaluation processes contributed to…

Compares reasons cited in 1970 and 1990 for faculty resistance to instructional technology (IT), reviews the literature, and presents data collected from an Internet survey. Concludes that simply providing access to technology is not enough, that faculty need training. (PEN)

Describes the sociotechnical structures of the Inquiry Learning Forum (ILF), a Web-based professional development tool designed to support a community of inservice and preservice mathematics and science teachers creating, sharing, and improving inquiry-based pedagogical practices. Highlights the change in focus from usability to sociability…

Highlights an award-winning school superintendent whose leadership and vision helped create a system of high-performing schools. He established a culture that embraces respect, collaboration, and commitment to lifelong learning for students and staff. Student test scores are high, and the achievement gap between middle- and lower-income students…

Recommends that professional development should address five aspects of school capacity: teacher knowledge, skills, and dispositions; professional community; program coherence; technical resources; and principal leadership. Research on nine urban elementary schools nationwide found considerable variation in schools' use of professional development…

Introduces several articles on social inclusion written by individuals struggling to accommodate changing professional demands with their own understandings and practices, drawing on the dominant discourses surrounding them, which include old professional understandings of equal opportunities, social justice, race, gender, and class and new…

Discusses the importance of interaction between students and between teachers and their students in distance education in higher education. Reviews interactivity research studies, outlines vital online teacher competencies, and recommends the need for further research, including determining the best professional development programs. (Author/LRW)

The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS)Standards for teacher professional development include five propositions of accomplished learning (e.g., teacher commitment to students and learning, teachers knowing the subjects they teach and how to teach them, and teachers as members of learning communities). Early research shows…

Presents a continuum of the development and growth toward a scholarship of teaching. Explores whether a scholar of teaching studies teaching as a discipline in itself or whether teaching is studied through another discipline. Suggests how the isolation of the scholarship of teaching from the primary work of the disciplines and of departments might…

Faculty development workshops can be particularly effective if they address an issue or challenge faced by the faculty and present information literacy as part of an overall strategy for meeting that need. This article will discuss how Librarians at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), used this approach of capitalizing on faculty interests…

Professional learning is a social enterprise where peers rely on the expertise and support of one another to adopt innovative practices. Reciprocal interactions in a community of practice, where teachers take responsibility for each other's learning and development, may provide an effective means of supporting situated professional learning. We…