Describes the High/Scope Preschool Curriculum, an approach that supports young children's learning and enables children, particularly those at risk, to achieve greater school success and adult socioeconomic status. Discusses the central principles of curriculum: active learning, positive adult-child interactions, child-centered learning…

A survey of 171 full-time faculty at a Manitoba community college identified some factors affecting participation in staff development activities. College teaching experience and perception of administrative climate were the most important determinants, suggesting administrators play a key role through funding and reward structure. (Author/MSE)

Describes the development and evaluation of writing-across-the curriculum teacher inservice workshop at Virginia Commonwealth University. Characterizes the approach as a faculty-based model. Workshop topics included writing activities and assessment for individual psychology courses. Provides an extensive bibliography. (NL)

Legal issues which intramural and recreational sports professionals should understand are discussed. These professionals need continuing education, and legal issues should be part of professional development programs in recreational sports, emphasizing programing (civil liberties, civil rights, and criminal issues) and administration…

The changing marketplace for foreign language college faculty necessitates carefully devised faculty development programs to help new and younger faculty to launch ("fire") their careers. Foreign language departments must develop effective faculty recruitment and retention strategies to maintain program quality, size, and missions. (CB)

Identifies the competencies that faculty members believe their department chairs need to possess in order to function effectively as academic leaders. Considers whether those competencies are generalizable across different academic departments. Assesses the degree of relationship between perceptions of department chairs' competencies and overall…

Describes a model of inservice education designed to increase opportunities for teacher interaction and the availability of instructional resources. Emphasizes teacher control. Discusses workshops, school visits, and computer conferencing. Presents an analysis of the participation of teachers in computer conferencing following the workshop. (CW)

Describes an innovative and collaborative approach to helping teacher educators better prepare preservice teachers to utilize technology for effective instruction. A mentoring program that paired graduate students in instructional technology with interested faculty members is discussed, and attitudes of the mentors and the faculty members are…

This paper deals with an attempt to organize a university research-based course designed to promote inservice primary teachers' professional development in environmental education. The various problems that arise in the running of such a course are identified, and some suggestions for their resolution are offered. (LZ/Author)

Junior women faculty (n=22) were paired with senior women colleagues as part of a mentoring initiative in a faculty development program. Participant perceptions before and after the program were analyzed for implications in three areas: roles and responsibilities, sense of fit, and personal security. (Author/MSE)

Describes a study of personal journal subscriptions of university faculty teaching in arts and professional programs at Saint Francis Xavier University (Nova Scotia). Highlights include classification of journals; overlap with holdings of the library; financing of personal subscriptions; style of reading; and a comparison of results from Part I,…

Paper describes one approach to preservice teacher education that considers the experiences of other nations and cultures in meeting the educational needs of students, arguing for the merits of closely analyzing particular examples of English elementary school practice in the context of an advanced undergraduate course in elementary teacher…

With federal aid, the University of Georgia at Athens has developed a program that increases senior faculty involvement in undergraduate instruction. In a year-long seminar, senior faculty members work with junior faculty, teaching assistants, and campus faculty development staff to improve introductory-level instruction. (Author/MSE)

A new program at Madonna University (Michigan) builds on the institution's existing emphasis on the humanities in teacher education by creating faculty development activities that promote an interdisciplinary learning community and developing courses to forge formal curricular links between key humanities general education courses and required…

Describes a small-group, problem-based tutorial that was developed at Harvard Medical School. Topics discussed include recruiting and training faculty members for problem-based tutoring; students' ratings of tutors; students' written narratives; a survey of tutors' perspectives; and tutor effectiveness. (LRW)