Discusses the potential for providing high quality mathematics instruction for all students, addressing four conditions that are necessary for achieving this goal: high quality curriculum; a stable, knowledgeable, and professional teaching community; high quality assessment aligned with curricular goals; and stability and mechanisms for the…

Reviews teacher professional development in the United States and Japan, discussing similarities and differences. Faced with increasingly diverse and rapidly changing societies, both counties recognize flaws in their current systems and want to reform teacher education by finding ways of revitalizing professional development. The paper notes that…

Assesses faculty and staff development needs in Alabama's two-year colleges. Indicates that faculty and staff have a primary interest in development in the following areas: instruction-related skills; collaboration; organizational issues; and technology. Contains three data tables, three appendices and 18 references. (JDI)

Describes the Six Universities Development and Rehabilitation Project (SUDRP) conducted at six Indonesian universities by faculty from Colorado State University. Suggests that the collaborative methodology used for instruction was highly successful and could be incorporated into other faculty-development programs. Contains one figure and 11…

Project Search trains teams of high school teachers in environmental monitoring methodology in a summer institute. The focus is on applying science to real-life learning. (SK)

Presents suggestions a compilation of the responses to the National Communication Association's Task Force on Advancing the Discipline that came from individual sub-committee members in regard to small undergraduate college programs. Considers staffing and curriculum issues, problems of theory and performance, collegiality and participation in…

Explores the importance of interpretation in the perception and evaluation of teaching events, using excerpts from a collaborative self-study project in a preservice class. Certain events were interpreted very differently by different individuals. Hypothesizes that personal and cultural biographies shape these interpretations. Faculty tend to…

Introduces a series of articles that examine difficulties related to teaching in urban schools and how to improve the education of students from urban schools. The paper focuses on problems associated with underachievement of students in urban schools, improving the education of children in urban schools, and implications for teachers'…

Describes a workshop program developed at the California State University Sacramento to familiarize faculty with the library's electronic resources. The broad subject areas targeted were business, humanities, social sciences, and science and technology. Training covered the online catalog, article indexes, and databases. Evaluations of the…

Describes professional development programs implemented by The National Faculty, a 31-year-old organization that promotes long-term teacher growth and subsequent growth for students in the classroom. National Faculty scholars work with individual school districts to design a program that focuses on specific needs identified by teachers in that…

Describes a collaborative model in which college instructors work together to support and assess teaching innovations. Basic principles of a clinical-based method of supervision were adapted for the three-phase process (planning conference, classroom observation, feedback conference). Provides examples of collaboration and participants' feedback.…

Discusses the rationale for the introduction of problem-based learning (PBL) pedagogy into dental education, the modalities of PBL being introduced, and the implications of its introduction into dental schools. Addresses implementation, faculty development, admissions, and assessment. Presents and discusses observations from a parallel-track…

Describes how one Kentucky school successfully beats its own winning test scores. The school examined what was taught, how it was taught, and how much was learned, determining how to regularly assess student progress. A staff development program was created that integrated continuous student assessment with teacher training. Teams of teachers and…

Offers suggestions on how the scholarship of teaching could be built into graduate and faculty development programs, and introduces a model that could serve as a framework for courses on learning to teach in higher education. (EV)

This study explored how interaction between student teachers and supervisors create professional development opportunities during practicum. Often, student teachers are considered as the "apprentices" and their supervising teachers are the "masters." Is it really true? Do prospective teachers learn everything from their supervising teachers? Or is…