Three collaborative writing faculty projects which were designed and put into effect at Santa Clara University are peer advising, composition seminars, and inter-active observation. Peer advising matched faculty members who had previously taught in the writing program on campus with instructors new to the program to serve as professional resources…

It is time for the state of Georgia to adopt a policy mandating professors of reading education, state level bureaucrats, and district level reading supervisors overseeing reading programs to return to the classroom every three to five years for a designated period of service as reading teachers. Just as classroom teachers undergo inservice…

This is a report of a one-year trial of a new professional arrangement for teachers, which gave experienced teachers part-time sabbaticals during the school year for study and curriculum projects, and which attempted to give first-year teachers (who were already certified) mentoring help and other special professional opportunities. The first-year…

The handbook provides a rationale and suggestions for incorporating multicultural components into special education teacher preparation curricula. The model was developed from an analysis of the University of Kansas's special education department. The rationale centers on the need to understand and appreciate diversity and the importance of…

The mathematics curriculum in the first 2 years of college is a tool created to assist in solving problems. The current mathematics curriculum has changed little; the same topics, tied to the engineering and science curriculum, are taught as they were being taught in 1945. The problems that students need to solve have changed however. Both the…

Ninety-four college journalism administrators responded to a questionnaire designed to determine which research activities they felt were most important for tenure evaluation of journalism instructors. All respondents were members of the American Society of Journalism School Administrators. Respondents ranked the importance of 33 activities…

An institution of higher education requires an evaluation scheme that measures program and service quality and value and justly recognizes and evaluates faculty efforts. The department chairperson assumes a leadership role in planning and implementing an academic promotion and faculty recognition system and in evaluating the success of the…

Teachers' salary schedules are not ends in themselves; rather, they are linked to the middle-range personnel objectives that include: (1) having a large applicant pool from which to choose; (2) reduced teacher turnover; and (3) increased average teacher experience in the district, with a larger percent of masters' degrees. Salary schedules from…

One challenge in today's society is to teach students how to solve problems and use the general education they acquire to arrive at realistic solutions. Techniques that cut across the curriculum and can be used by any university teacher to provide realistic experiences for students are discussed. Students need the same acquired skills in…

In response to a desire for an additional, low-cost program of faculty and staff development, Buffalo State College has developed a series of workshop/seminar sessions presented during the break between the fall and spring semesters. Called Winterim, the program offers sessions on a wide variety of academic, professional, and instructional topics…

To investigate the use of classroom journals to improve teachers' instruction, a study analyzed teachers' dialogue learning logs and collected data on teachers' response patterns. Subjects were teachers of college writing who were participating in a five-week summer seminar for doctoral students in rhetoric. Teachers responded to classroom…

This literature review discusses the nature of instructional development (ID) and the ID movement, and examines the factors affecting the success of ID in higher education, focusing in particular on the organization and implementation of ID programs. The role of ID agencies is discussed and the various characteristics of such agencies are…

In 1980 the Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) Public Schools recognized needs for significant improvement in staff evaluation, student achievement, individual school effectiveness, and the clarification of systemwide objectives and expectations. The instructional leadership committee appointed to establish a unified approach to effective instruction…

The Houston (Texas) Independent School District established a Department of Technology to encourage the use of educational technology, especially computers, in district schools. Obstacles included claims to "turf," rapid technological change, and the lack of trained management, clear policies, and sufficient staff incentives. The…

Sexism in educational institutions has limited women's careers, educational opportunities, and employment. Examples of this inequity include the facts that: (1) few women are chief executives in colleges; (2) women faculty earn less than men faculty; and (3) implicit and explicit attitudes such as the "old boy" network cause problems for women.…