Ten suggestions for new college faculty include provide clear instructional goals and a rationale, treat students fairly, allow each an opportunity to talk daily, bring the real world in, use one-to-one conferencing when needed, invite students into the evaluation process, model positive behavior, set reasonable standards, grow professionally, and…

Examines how conformity to gender or gender expectations can affect evaluation. Finds that women who write either traditional or non-traditional perspectives generally receive the same grade, but a non-traditional perspective is more likely to receive criticism. Finds also that the same is true of men but to a lesser degree. (TB)

Effective professional development is a faculty-directed process that encourages modification of behaviors based on critical self-reflection and evaluation of one's assumptions and beliefs about targeted development areas (such as teaching, curriculum, or school environment). This article presents a comprehensive faculty-development model that…

Explains how an English teacher settled into an unproductive, formulaic approach to teaching writing and how he reformed himself and his teaching through a discovery of the processes involved in writing. Describes exercises and notebooks that furthered his new "process" approach to teaching writing. (TB)

Presents an example of art education as a means of social control. Examines a 1905 incident wherein children at South Park School in Victoria (British Columbia) were found to have ruled lines in their freehand drawing books. The school principal, Agnes Deans Cameron, was dismissed. (PAL)

Draws on the authors' insider and outsider perspectives as teachers and researchers to examine a teacher's use of scaffolding in a preschool classroom for children ages three through five. Finds that through literacy scaffolding with an academic focus, an intellectual focus, and an emotional focus, the teacher was able to build bridges from the…

Describes how a teacher used the "hypothesis-test" (HT) approach with a first grader for a school year to examine up close the process of a child learning to read. Describes how the teacher saw what was happening as the children read and then brought that to the rest of the class so everyone could learn from each other. (SR)

Traces technological advancements implemented in U.S. public schools from the 18th century on, arguing that their failure to meet expectations arises from institutional characteristics rather than teachers' resistance to change. Argues that teaching/learning models must change to allow technology to be adopted and applied to public schools. (43…

Surveys and observes highly effective primary-level teachers. Describes their classroom characteristics and instructional practices, particularly the deliberate and well-planned integration of explicit skills instruction and authentic reading and writing experiences. (SR)

A study compared United Kingdom classrooms containing nurture groups and typical classrooms (n=8). Teachers' verbal and nonverbal communications in the nurture group were much more positive and more likely to enhance the self-esteem of pupils (ages 5-7). Communication of typical classroom teachers were less likely to foster positive self-esteem.…

Discusses the problems of school violence as related to teachers. Addresses the issues of depression that teachers face, explaining that psychological isolation acts as a forerunner of depression. States that teachers feel defenseless against school violence and warns against these conditions which cause a lack of motivation to teach. (CMK)

Discusses the impact of various policies, including faculty compensation, workload, intellectual property, and geographic service areas, on distance education enrollment growth. Reports on five cases based on data from a survey of members of the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications and presents a framework for understanding why…

Discusses dilemmas that face educational leaders, principally in the UK, when attitudes toward sex and sexuality start to change and when their own beliefs may or may not coincide with these changes. Focuses on sexual relations that may occur between adults and between adults and students. (Contains 34 references.) (WFA)

This article reports on some of the dilemmas faced by classroom teachers in an Australian high school as they implemented a mandated curriculum initiative. The resolution of these dilemmas as the school faced structural, cultural, and pedagogical adjustments is examined. (Contains 37 references.) (AUTHOR)

Shares the observations of an educator visiting a high school classroom. Comments on how planning can support students' initial responses and their deeper thinking. Argues that teachers of literature can be both intuitively planful and planfully spontaneous in providing students with powerful language tools for shaping personal meaning. (MG)