The Southwest Educational Developmental Laboratory identified, located, and annotated references to inform the work of the Promoting Instructional Coherence Project, which investigates problems teachers face in their efforts to make their practice more coherent or meaningful for students. The references included in this annotated bibliography are…

This book, designed to be used with a training workshop that helps veteran teachers be effective mentors to beginning teachers, provides instructions on how to facilitate a successful workshop. The book offers six chapters that include strategies and materials to help readers learn how to plan and promote a workshop; facilitate a successful…

This guide answers three basic questions on how to develop a professional community of learners: (1) What type of polices, structures, and procedures will help staff to connect with and learn from one another? (2) What incentives help schools to undertake community-wide learning? and (3) How can schools transform themselves into professional…

This report describes a study on Arizona's beginning teacher induction, examining how induction program elements vary statewide. It also examines three induction models: the California Model, the Connecticut Model, and a model for science teachers in Arizona. In 2000, researchers surveyed 197 traditional public school districts regarding their…

This report summarizes the activities, outcomes, and recommendations of a small Commonwealth Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DETYA)-funded teacher professional development project "Teachers First." Noting that the project delivered a program of professional development informed by the recommendations of the DETYA…

A study addressed two challenges in American teacher education: (1) the differences in background between a largely Euro-American teaching force and the diverse pupils it serves; and (2) the difficulty of teaching about literacy and culture in responsive ways. Working with a group of teachers, the study used ethnic autobiographies, written by…

The purpose of this ongoing project is to establish a model for school-based teacher development for secondary science and mathematics teachers in Taiwan. The model uses an action research approach with emphasis on constructivist perspectives of teaching and learning and the idea that teachers are to be taken as researchers and reflective…

This paper presents information from a series of preliminary asynchronous international conversations across four cultural contexts that focus on enhancing the profile of teachers in curriculum decision making. The paper challenges education systems to match the rhetoric about the place of teachers in curriculum decision making with curriculum…

This study examined the impact of a comprehensive periodic post-tenure review policy within a public research institution which was mandated to establish procedures for complying with a policy requiring periodic evaluation of tenured faculty. The post-tenure review policy was implemented in fall 1987. Two full cycles of periodic 5-year reviews…

Forty-two faculty members in their first, second, or third year of employment at small, private, liberal arts colleges in Ohio were asked to describe their initial impressions of faculty and administration, to reflect on those things that helped or hindered their transition into the college and local communities, whether or not they had intended…

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects and the effectiveness of the use of an on-line community to support preservice teacher and new teacher interaction and development. Mathematics, Science, and Technology (MaSTech) was designed to connect middle grade mathematics preservice teachers and beginning teachers with their peers as well…

This bill was presented before the Congress of the United States of America to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. One section in the amendment focuses on improving basic programs operated by local educational agencies, and covers the activities and applications of the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse (ENC). This document…

This 1997 technical report looks at California Early Literacy Learning (CELL), a staff development program designed to help elementary teachers strengthen their teaching of reading and writing. It notes that research-based teaching methodologies have been organized into a framework for classroom instruction, and that the CELL project emphasizes…

This 1999 technical report looks at California Early Literacy Learning (CELL) and Extended Literacy Learning (ExLL), professional development programs designed to help elementary teachers strengthen their teaching of reading and writing. It notes that research-based teaching methodologies have been organized into a framework for classroom…

The "Pathways to Literacy" program was designed by teachers for teachers as a professional development activity to integrate standards with a reading and writing curriculum. It is intended as a how-to guide to help teachers learn to do a better job of implementing standards in their classrooms, or for related purposes such as improving…