Presents research on enhancing teachers' understanding of the key role emotions play in their personal professional growth, combining narrative, autobiographical accounts of British school and college teachers with an examination of the underlying values affecting the practices of their tutors. Results reveal the effects of powerful, often…

Integrative motivation was found to correlate significantly with American Sign Language (ASL) proficiency for 115 hearing faculty and staff at a postsecondary program for deaf students. Instrumental motives, however, were perceived as less important. Higher achievement in ASL was also associated with a positive cultural attitude toward deaf…

Based on a classroom teaching incident described elsewhere in the issue, use of reflective teaching to improve college instruction is discussed. Ways in which the professor's changing understanding of the teaching situation can be deepened by teacher-directed assessment in such a context and, in turn, inform future classroom research, are…

Discusses what effective instructional leadership looks like, how principals can improve teaching, and how teachers' views of leaders affect what they do in the classroom. Highlights two major themes that principals exhibit in effective instructional leadership (talking with teachers to promote reflection and promoting professional growth). A…

Reviews programs developed by the District of Columbia Public Schools to recruit, prepare and retain teachers. Though the programs mirrored national reforms, they were not institutionalized within the school system and thus faded after several years. The District's experience illustrates the often too-short lifespan of such reforms and the…

Discussion of the secondary school reform project at Brewster Academy (NH) focuses on the School Design Model and how technology has been used. Highlights include curriculum authoring tools; professional growth tools for teachers; and results of a longitudinal study that show improvements in SAT (Scholastic Assessment Tests) scores. (LRW)

Studied eight teachers struggling to implement an innovation in teaching English writing in the Hong Kong schools and developed a model for the Innovation-Decision process based on that of E. Rogers (1995). Findings provide a theoretical framework and principles for designing in-service programs for teachers adjusting to educational change. (SLD)

Describes the Comprehensive Social Studies Assessment Project (CSSAP), a collaborative effort by 23 states aiming to develop assessments for upper elementary, middle, and high school students in history, geography, civics, and economics. Explains that CSSAP aims to initiate a professional development program, implement a portfolio assessment, and…

Describes the experiences of four veteran teachers who came to teach in a residential high school for gifted adolescents and participated in peer coaching, study groups, and mentoring. This faculty development exposed them to advanced content and higher order thinking strategies, which were the very same skills they were encouraged to use to…

Describes how one college of education built its computer infrastructure and technology expertise. Essential in this process were a commitment on the part of the dean, significant funding, technology training sessions, and the expertise of technology specialists. The integration of technology throughout this college has positioned it to become an…

Discusses the relationship between health literacy and advocacy for health and health education, identifying health advocacy competencies for students and teachers, delineating health education's role in developing health-literate citizens and training health educators as advocates, and examining recent initiatives in school health education and…

Presents citations on recent program ideas and rationales for including faculty development at community colleges. Reports that some authors view faculty development as necessary to growth, and others see it as beyond the needs of two-year college faculty. Adds that nevertheless, community colleges still attempt to contribute to faculty…

Identifies key challenges for community colleges concerning faculty and professional staff: preparing and attracting qualified faculty, implementing the teaching and learning paradigm, helping faculty make use of current technology, and improving the status and morale of professional staff. Proposes several potential solutions for each challenge.…

Describes a staff development program on race and ethnicity conducted at a British teacher education college following racial disturbances in England. Significant numbers of survey respondents believed that the event took them away from more pressing educational issues and that black and Asian students received disproportionately better education…

Examined school-based teacher educators' beliefs about the principles, contents, methods, and evaluation of ongoing teacher education, using the teacher-researcher model. Survey data indicated that most respondents believed that ongoing teacher education must be developed around problems of professional practice and in contexts of curricular…