Suggestions on how to examine educational programs in business and relate findings from such learning experiences to the school environment are presented in this article. (DF)

The Physical Education Department at the University of Georgia has initiated a staff development program that allows the teacher to participate in decision-making processes in regard to content, needs, and priorities. Guidelines of the program are offered. (DF)

Explains the rationale for and offers suggestions on implementing content area writing. (MM)

Explores key components of the teacher professional growth process and examines how "significant others" can contribute to the components discussed. Presents a structure for a collaborative approach to supervision and staff development. (FL)

Reflects on the experience of training teachers from non-English disciplines to teach writing by inviting them to take a freshman level, basic writing course. (AEA)

The author uses behavioral objectives as the framework for developing an evaluation system with a simple approach. He believes that simplicity is the key to successful implementation of evaluation systems. (MD)

The Education Development Center's Center for Children and Technology (EDC/CCT) conducted an assessment of the Center of Arts Education's (CAE) Curriculum Development and Access (CDA) Leadership grant program implemented in 18 of the original recipient sites of the Annenberg Partnership program. The overall goals of the research were to assess the…

Although entrepreneurship has long been considered a fundamental aspect of American society, its development as an academic field in U.S. colleges and universities is relatively recent and on-campus entrepreneurship programs have been most commonly found in business schools. Because entrepreneurs and innovative ideas can arise from within any…

The take-home message about guidance and advisement from the 2005 High Schools That Work Staff Development Conference is that students should begin early to think about career and educational aspirations and to determine the level of effort and the educational preparation needed to meet those goals. Students should have an adult mentor at school…

This document is a resource developed for educators trained in the Professional Learning Team (PLT) process by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL). The PLT process is a research-based model for effective schoolwide professional development that results in teachers changing their instructional practices. This publication provides…

The life and activities of every man in the transitional period from the second to the third millennium has been characterized by huge changes that resulted from scientific and technological revolution in which dominates a highly developed IT-Communicational Technology. This paper concludes that to attain IT-literacy and computer literacy would…

The purpose of this dissertation is to identify the instructional goals of faculty who teach in the web-based environment and compare those to the goals of faculty who teach traditional, face-to-face course. Study participants were faculty members from two year public community colleges in Florida and the data was collected via a website that…

This report presents the results of a study of faculty recruitment and selection strategies used by self-reported learning-centered community colleges during the 1998-1999 academic year. The study examined six key principles of a learning college: (1) creates substantive change in learners; (2) engages students as partners in learning; (3) offers…

This book is designed to help school leaders critically examine what they should expect from students, how they will know when students have achieved those expectations, and how to design and implement instruction to ensure that every student achieves agreed-upon goals. It asserts that leaders are first and foremost teachers. Chapter 1, "Teaching…

This book about electronic teacher portfolios presents 14 chapters in six parts. Part 1, "The Evolution of the Portfolio in Teacher Education," includes: (1) "Portfolios: Past to Present." Part 2, "The Emergence of a Professional Portfolio Model," features: (2) "Smart Portfolios for Teachers," (3)…