Examines the experiences of a university researcher and a classroom teacher who shared the work of teaching 6th grade science. Interprets the shared collaboration stories of teachers by using models of social identity that employ performance metaphors in the construction/deconstruction of multiple identities. (Contains 34 references.) (Author/YDS)

Describes how several elementary teacher educators are learning to practice what they teach by integrating methods courses. This involves taking action to coordinate what occurs in each course and integrate what they do and how they do it, with a focus on interdisciplinary instruction. The process of learning to integrate methods courses involves…

Describes an action research project conducted while teaching a course about action research. Eight doctoral students and a professor co-taught the course, demonstrating aspects of action research and modeled research methodology for their students. The project helped them study their own teaching and their students' learning and demonstrated…

Assesses faculty and staff development needs in Alabama's two-year colleges. Indicates that faculty and staff have a primary interest in development in the following areas: instruction-related skills; collaboration; organizational issues; and technology. Contains three data tables, three appendices and 18 references. (JDI)

Describes the Six Universities Development and Rehabilitation Project (SUDRP) conducted at six Indonesian universities by faculty from Colorado State University. Suggests that the collaborative methodology used for instruction was highly successful and could be incorporated into other faculty-development programs. Contains one figure and 11…

Introduces a theme issue on mentorship. The articles focus on what mentorship means in a variety of contexts and suggest where future research in this area is heading. The diverse perspectives cut across cultural contexts, subject areas, educational levels, and learning experiences. Articles share reflections situated within the university and…

Describes the long-time, collaborative, co-mentoring relationship that developed between two university professors who were good friends prior to being collaborators, explaining how the co-mentoring creates a creative, democratic space for the formation of insights and understandings that help them search for and choose themselves in different…

Describes the 5-year-old Professional Development School (PDS) relationship between the Mary Munford Model School near Richmond, Virginia, and Virginia Commonwealth University. The PDS focuses on goals of the Holmes Partnership. This paper looks at the stories of a classroom teacher and a university educator involved in the PDS. (SM)

As research continues to show that bigger schools are not necessarily better, educators are finding innovative ways to shrink them. Small schools may even prove less expensive, when costs per graduate are considered. In Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) and New York City, large elementary schools are breaking into smaller learning communities. (MLH)

Describes and evaluates a three-year-old program at Franklin Pierce Law Center (New Hampshire) to improve classroom teaching, noting a national survey of law schools which found few such programs. Describes the school's decision to emphasize peer review, to hire a visiting professor recognized as a gifted teacher, and its cooperative teaching…

Asserts that successful teaming requires training, practice, and support structures and that it often comes unaccompanied by training or instructions. Presents a conceptual model of the factors that affect team performance, and describes the three categories of the framework, their usefulness, and examples of pertinent studies within each…

This paper describes Education Review Teams as an evolution of practice stemming from evidence of the effectiveness of teacher assistance teams and teacher support teams. Evidence showing the value of adding a monitoring function, subject area consultation, and the authority to allocate resources to these teams is offered. (DB)

Describes a collaborative model in which college instructors work together to support and assess teaching innovations. Basic principles of a clinical-based method of supervision were adapted for the three-phase process (planning conference, classroom observation, feedback conference). Provides examples of collaboration and participants' feedback.…

Recognizes how lack of time, support, and resources can hamper the development of an effective integrated curriculum. Describes classroom and preservice teachers' collaboration to create an effective curriculum based on the story "Flat Stanley." Concludes that preservice teachers gained important insights about designing effective integrated…

Explored the professional development experiences of 28 practicing teachers involved in a two-year technology supported problem-based learning curriculum development effort. Discusses collaboration in teaching and the use of asynchronous computer-mediated communication and compares that discourse with the discourse produced by teachers in…