Presents three aspects of multi-professional shared learning. Discusses the levels of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that comprise a learner's "readiness" for Inter-Professional Learning and describes the design and implementation of a multi-professional shared-learning course. Identifies the educational principles underlying shared…

Explores the beliefs of inservice teachers about a demonstration classroom component of an in-service program. Results suggest that the demonstration classroom concept is worth further consideration. Contains 57 references. (DDR)

Describes eliciting teachers' views on the nature of science, interpreting and understanding these views, and developing these views in the context of initial or in-service teacher education. Contains 28 references. (DDR)

To explore how media analysis and production can be integrated into existing curricula, Clark University developed the Re-Visioning Project for secondary teachers. A humanities-centered institute was based on rich professional-development experiences, stressing learning and teaching activities, analysis of practice, and development of shared…

Explains tenants of quality professional development using a beginning teacher's experiences for illustration. Suggests that professional development should: focus on single subject; focus on participants' needs; be ongoing and sustained; engage participants in pursuit of answers to genuine questions, problems, and curiosities; provide…

Describes the planning and successful integration of technology into the Oswego School District (New York). Highlights include creating a sustainable effort, building barriers against obsolescence, steady focus on professional development, inservice professional development, and looking to a bright future. (AEF)

Discusses how a parent advisory process was used to write professional-education competencies and develop teaching strategies for a military medical school. Includes recommendations for involving parents of young children with special needs in successful advisory activities. (Author/CR)

Discusses original recommendations on the preparation of early interventionists and reviews numerous societal, policy/legislative, and service delivery changes that have occurred over the past 10 years in early-childhood special education. Progress in the development of licensure/certification guidelines is highlighted, and the need for further…

Curriculum consortia composed of small, rural school districts can overcome professional isolation, better meet state accreditation standards, improve decision making, better attract external funding, and strengthen sense of community through the development of professional relationships. Describes how consortia are organized and developed and…

Describes the process of reform that occurred at one elementary school involved in a collaborative reform of teacher preparation with Brigham Young University, discussing the tensions and rewards of working in university-school partnerships. Data from student concept maps of teaching, biographical histories, field observations, interviews, and…

Examined issues around school-university collaborations. University liaisons collaborated with elementary teachers on portfolio implementation. Teachers helped design and present a portfolio inservice in a nearby district. Data from interviews, meetings, writing, observations, and journals produced four themes: (1) sharing power and control; (2)…

Campus activities programmers are offered advice on making the most of what they learn at a convention, including some hints for organization before the convention, suggestions for dealing with agents and other schools and for taking notes, and ideas for follow-up. Special attention is given to cooperative buying agreements schools may make with…

Discusses how electronic mail helps foreign-language (FL) teachers by enhancing their curriculum, improving their FL contacts, and facilitating their own professional development. Electronic mail offers access to discussion groups and newsgroups. It allows teachers to design activities and projects that enhance their curriculum and provide…

This investigation of domain-specific professional reading clarified the way 12 professionally active teachers select and read journal articles in their field. Think-aloud reports identified categories of (1) using strategies; (2) connecting to practice; (3) monitoring; (4) questioning; and (5) evaluating. These teachers created meaning in complex…

The predictive value for the development of competence of a portfolio as compared with instruments that were easier to administer was studied with 27 government management trainees in the Netherlands. Portfolios were found to be better predictors of workplace performance than were self-rating or peer-rating. (SLD)