Tod Hodgdon, a former math teacher, has no background in computer science yet manages to teach a popular programing course to first-time computer users. This article describes his teaching style and presents his views on computers in the schools. (Author/SJL)

Examined the impact of job-related and personal characteristics on the self-concept of college faculty in home economics, a traditionally female field. Results indicated both male and female faculty saw themselves as assertive, creative, and intelligent. Women saw their jobs as requiring them to be more competent. (Author/JAC)

Presents an interview with seventh-grade science teacher Charles Doyle. The interview covers Doyle's environmental concerns, his interdisciplinary approach, and use of field trips in environmental education. His personal background, his writing, and his attitudes toward students and teaching are also discussed. (AM)

Ninety percent of the 1977 entrants to general Teacher Education courses in Ireland (north and south) responded to a demographic questionnaire. Results are detailed and the two regions contrasted with respect to respondents' age, sex, entry qualifications, religion, social class, family background, school experience, and rural/urban origin.…

This paper draws on the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education's survey of American college faculty, examining the extent to which graduates of higher-level institutions affect and are affected by lower-level institutions in which they find employment. Attention is given to roles performed, access to authority and rewards, and educational values.…

Notes that the number of second language writers in composition classes and seeking assistance at university writing centers is growing every year. Explores some insights offered by second language acquisition research. Argues that writing centers may be an ideal place for second language writers to work on their writing. (PM)

Investigates the effects of student characteristics, class structure, and instructor characteristics on additional economics course selections made by students taking economics principles classes over a three year span at Florida State University (Tallahassee). Concludes that students' characteristics and preferences help to determine their choice…

Outlines the author's experience of co-teaching a graduate-level course online. Explains that the author is a non-native speaker of English, and was educated and taught in Taiwan. Concludes that online teaching and learning presents a whole different culture than that found in face-to-face environments. (PM)

The National Technical Institute for the Deaf developed and implemented a school-based deafness simulation project for hearing faculty members called "Keeping in Touch." Faculty members wore tinnitus maskers which produced a moderate-to-severe hearing loss and subsequently discussed their experiences, feelings, and communication…

Describes a 1986 study on the differences in the connotative level of meaning as examined through a survey of foreign and Japanese English teachers in the Kansai area. Results of the survey indicate that teachers immersed in one cultural background may pass along images that do not necessarily correspond to the connotations held in other…

Describes the position of young humanists teaching courses in business writing (who job-hop in search of tenured positions or drop out of academe) as representative of "exhaustion," the final stage of Hans Selye's stress model. (SR)

The study investigated the effects that university courses on exceptionality had on teachers' attitudes toward physically disabled persons. Teacher attitudes were positively affected by course completion and by having a disabled friend/relative; they were not affected by video versus live-delivery instructional approaches or by biographical…

A survey of the background, attitudes, and perceptions of 44 Diversified Technology teachers (100 percent response), 42 counselors (95 percent), and 42 vocational directors (95 percent) in Mississippi found that most teachers were satisfied with training and had positive attitudes toward the program. Teachers and directors found low enrollment its…