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…

Reports on a collaborative project to explore the work of teacher educators as an effort to reconstruct a stance as teachers in relation to students. Shares the discovery of the ironic in desires for authoritative knowledge, effective methods, coherent organization, and harmonic relationships. (CMK)

In this interview, Dr. Marilyn Friend discusses why collaboration is important in schools, what it takes to make collaboration work effectively in schools, what teachers need to learn about working with others, the biggest challenges that collaborators face, how school leaders can facilitate collaboration, and resources on teacher collaboration.…

A study investigated perceptions of five junior high general-education teachers and three special education teachers participating on a collaborative inclusion team. Both general and special-education teachers were positive about the inclusion and the teaming and believed the arrangement provided a rich learning environment for students with…

Explains how electronic mailing lists operate, and provides information about the objectives and membership of the four largest physics education-related electronic mail lists. (WRM)

Offers a theory of collaborative mentorship as a powerful force for professional development and change, describing a co-mentoring project in which professionals across a school-university setting formed a collaborative culture of learning. The paper describes their partnership support group, discusses how partners suspended distinctions between…

Presents a new mentoring approach to school change called the whole-faculty study group process, unfolding a discussion of the following: the group process; change management principles; school culture; the process model and content; mentoring and co-mentoring; synergy and teamwork; multiple levels of co-mentoring; success factors in the process;…

Describes how one district developed a mentoring program for beginning teachers to reduce the risk of attrition resulting from the hierarchy found in many school systems. The district determined a program mission, goals, and roles and responsibilities. An ongoing program assessment ensures that the program continues to offer valuable help to new…

Discussions with 13 teachers nationwide examined what they thought about their roles as teacher leaders, highlighting benefits of teacher leadership, necessary supports, finding time, who to talk to for support, and what has been helpful in their role as teacher leaders. Respondents were genuinely concerned about their students, eager to…

A study investigated the way general and special educators included six students with moderate and severe developmental disabilities in five elementary classrooms. Teachers were found to use an assimilationist approach to diversity, downplaying the differences between the students with disabilities and their classmates. Teacher collaboration is…

A study compared the self-concept and loneliness of 36 students with deafness and 39 hearing peers (grades 4-8) in co-teaching inclusive classrooms. Consistent results indicate that while age differences appeared, there were no negative social consequences of coteaching for the students with deafness. (Author/CR)

This introduction discusses how creative programmatic activities can be designed to address the needs of preservice and inservice educators. It describes a practicum that provided preservice students in early childhood special education opportunities to apply consultation skills to teachers working with children with disabilities and an inservice…

This article describes an innovative practicum that provided preservice graduate students in early childhood special education opportunities to apply consultation skills and practices to teachers working with young children with disabilities. Generally, childcare providers rated the consultation skills of the students participating in the…

A collaborative team of a teacher-consultant, state education agency associate, and university faculty member facilitated a workshop and monthly inquiry group meetings to support teachers' implementation of student-led Individual Education Programs (IEPs). Through participant-observation and grounded theory analytic methods, we examined issues…

In this paper, the author presents a narrative describing both her personal life and professional life, sharing the development of her teaching strategies and their relationship to feminism. She details how her background, politics, insecurities, strengths, and values directly influenced the development of her teaching pedagogy, asserting that,…