MIT research associate and Merrill Lynch Fellow Michael Schrage believes collaboration provides opportunities for research and understanding which could never be realized by individuals working alone. This article presents highlights of his discussion of collaboration at the 1998 Mid-Year Meeting of the American Society for Information Science in…

Discusses the issues of socialization and acculturation of interns into the workplace, motivation of student employees, and the relationship between education and training/workplace and academy by using an established university level internship program. Reveals the significance of these issues for positive experiential learning. (SG)

Comments on the development of partnerships across schools, colleges, community agencies, and families to support at-risk students, analyzing: barriers to interagency collaboration and interprofessional training and research; changes necessary in higher education to handle these barriers; and implications of lessons learned from existing…

Maintains that Montessori education must regain its dynamism by recognizing barriers that separate Montessori from mainstream educational thinking and entering into meaningful dialog with other educators. Suggests ways to improve understanding of Montessori's basic principles and practices and their current relevance, including defining core…

Discusses how teachers can utilize the talents of teacher aides. Describes ways in which three first grade teachers in a Catholic school share their assistants/aides and maximize their presence in the classroom, such as including the teacher assistant in lesson planning and using them as co-teachers on a large project. (NB)

Suggests principals and supervisors should be aware of the special needs of beginning teachers and work to provide a climate that supports positive growth. Offers strategies for beginning teacher and administrator strategies on the issues of isolation and loneliness, classroom management and discipline, conflict with colleagues, understanding…

Traces growth of the Teaching Community model at Australia's Monash and Swinburne universities; the model uses group meetings to encourage professional development of teaching staff. Elaborates on the model's successes and why it has been powerful in bringing about change in an area known for resistance, and proposes conditions required for this…

This article is based on a survey of 25 learning mentors in order to identify their background and training, barriers and opportunities they experience in their work with individual primary aged pupils with EBD. Heather Roper Marshall undertook this study as part of her work towards her BA (Hons) Education. She adopts a personalised, narrative…

The issue of children's transitions from prior-to-school settings to school is a complex one which has been the focus of research for the past 30 years. To ease children's transitions, communication between teachers in preschools and schools is recommended by researchers and educational authorities. However, there are indications that this…

Many early childhood practitioners use pedagogical documentation as an important process that enables children's thinking to be represented in a form that can be readily shared with others (Dahlberg et al., 1999). Documentation in the form of a professional portfolio provides a vehicle for reflection and an appreciation of the complexities and…

In this chapter, the authors review the literature on partnership evolution to offer strategies for developing collaborative evaluator-client relationships. They begin with a brief introduction to partnerships and their approach to client relationships. A synthesis of the literature on partnership evolution is provided and applied to the…

In this article, the author talks about the Critical Friends Group, which she and her colleagues at Souhegan High School created. They hold monthly meetings in order to help everyone with their work. Here, she discusses her experiences of CFG, as well as that of her colleagues' experiences and what they had to say about the CFG. Among other…

This article brings together an overview of ideas about teacher learning from both teacher education and workplace learning literature, and examines what and how newly qualified secondary school teachers learn in the early years of their career. We discuss the types of knowledge new teachers encounter and present a typology of teacher learning.…

This article discusses a group of new technologies--blogs, wikis, podcasts, social bookmarking, online photo galleries, and RSS (Real Simple Syndication)--collectively referred to as the Read/Write web. These tools allow users to easily create and publish online content, and are beginning to have a profound impact on curriculum, classroom…

The Working Together (WT) project involved the design and delivery of an online learning resource for healthcare teams in long-term care (LTC) so that knowledge regarding interprofessional collaborative patient-centred practice (ICPCP) could be readily accessed and then transferred to the workplace. The purpose of this paper is to better…