This article presents stages of gifted program inservice and staff development and correlates those stages with the target groups (teachers, administrators/policymakers, parents, students, and others) that would benefit most from each stage. Stages of entry are: awareness; orientation; curriculum design; advanced teacher training; parental…

An in-depth study of the problems and achievements of 100 new college teachers is reported and discussed, covering teacher training and experience; situational factors found to affect their teaching; the varying quality of performance; and recommendations for the teachers, departments hiring them, graduate students, and graduate departments. (MSE)

Female elementary teachers, classified as having high or low social approval needs, graded students' short answers to two typical school questions. Twenty-five teachers with high social approval need assigned significantly higher grades than twenty-six teachers with low need. Results did not vary with teachers' age, experience, or kind of school.…

Describes the social attitudes and interaction of a group of nonnative teachers adjusting to life in a rural Alaskan village. Focuses on how they construct their opinions about the reality of everyday village life and considers how teachers' cultural attitudes derive from their background experiences. (KH)

Studies have found that many teachers are not successful with African American students. This study grew out of the need to explore and learn from insights and knowledge of effective Title I White Reading teachers and their personal experiences, beliefs, and instructional practices. These experiences have helped the teachers bridge cultural…

Author, a primary teacher, humorously describes the abrupt changes when her traditional" school suddenly became open plan." (SP)

Presents the results and conclusions of a survey to determine the nature and extent of conservation education in Wisconsin's senior high schools. Some suggestions are offered for the expansion and improvement of high school conservation courses. (LC)

Analyzes questionnaire responses from a survey of 139 teachers of educational anthropology courses in colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. The survey focused on the goals, content, instructor background, student profile, and bibliography associated with such courses. (GC)

Describes teachers who inspired students to become teachers. (JL)

Assesses the impact of teaching assistants' background on the achievement of chemistry students in laboratory sessions they taught. Includes methodology, nature of background data collection, results, and limitations of the study. (SK)

Describes results of study to determine unique qualities of effective teachers serving rural youth, using data from school administrators in 45 school districts in western South Dakota. The environment in which successful teachers were reared is considered more important than special preparation programs. Discusses inservice strategies and…

A sample of 116 British teachers completed Musgrove's scale assessing their attitudes toward behavior modification and its use in educational settings. Overall mean scores suggested ambivalence. Among background variables, only prior familiarity with behavior modification influenced teachers' attitudes toward it, confirming Musgrove's findings.…

This review of literature on attrition from teaching indicate that teacher mobility has been studied from the institutional perspective, as personnel turnover, rather than from the viewpoint of the teacher and that important affective and personality issues have been neglected in favor of demographic factor identification. (Author/GK)

Describes research findings on factors associated with teachers who do and who do not read professional journals to improve their skills. Factors include degree of teaching experience, encouragement from the principal, discussion of readings during faculty meetings, perceived availability of reading material, and reading at home v reading at…