The purpose of the research was to study the effectiveness of Cardinal Stritch University's Undergraduate Teacher Education Program in preparing its graduates to teach all children. The researcher framed the study around four areas of concern common to beginning teachers from the research and literature: (a) curriculum, instruction and assessment…

Professionals throughout the field of education agree on the importance of teacher-caregiver communication. Yet teacher education programs still do very little to prepare future teachers for these interactions. This exploratory study investigated the use of a standardized caregiver model, with 12 teacher education students involved in a simulated…

The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of an Illinois metropolitan program that prepares teachers for administrative and supervisory positions in schools by analyzing, over a 10-year period, its employment outcomes. Overall, from 1995 to 2005, 503 students graduated from the program, 451 of whom with Illinois principal…

Paralleling the accelerating pace of educational change in the last two decades has been the development of a professional learning community (PLC) in schools. Characterised by teacher collaboration and a spirit of enquiry, the PLC represents a response to change and an opportunity to benefit teachers, students and schools, using an approach most…

This exploratory study focused on the needs and attributes that female doctoral students, during their academic and professional careers, seek in mentoring relationships with female faculty. Two domains--personal and professional--were identified as essential components in the developmental mentoring relationship. As a result, the Rheineck…

This study examined factors that influence teachers' technology integration during Collaborative Apprenticeships designed to provide onsite, ongoing, and just-in-time peer mentoring to create technology-enhanced materials. Results indicate that teachers who were successful in designing technology-enhanced lessons tended to interact differently…

Workforce turnover in public child welfare is a national problem. Individual, supervisory, and organizational factors, individually and in combination, account for some of the turnover. Complex, comprehensive interventions are needed to address these several factors and their interactions. A research and development team is field testing one such…

Despite the norms of privacy that pervade teacher culture and the assumptions of behind-closed-doors independence, teachers actually "need" their colleagues, whether they like it--and them--or not. Teachers are inherently dependent on one another since no one of them alone constitutes their students' education. Students move from teacher to…

The role of the librarian in relation to the teacher is discussed, and the librarian's personality is identified as an important fact in developing effective and satisfying working relationships. (Author/MBR)

The author attempts to define a conceptual framework for viewing the process by which an external change agent achieves effective connectedness with his client system.'' (Author/AK)

Described are three methods used by engineers and scientists to enrich their understanding of a technical subject prior to an interpersonal communication: Piggybacking, friendly consultation and/or professional peripheration. (17 references) (Author/SJ)

The peer review process used to select manuscripts for publication in academic journals is important to the individual researcher and the scientific community, but it has been the topic of little research. This article analyzes the reviewers overall recommendation, ratings on specific subscales, and written critiques. Reviewer reliability is…

Discusses the advantages and hazards of mentoring. Describes the qualities of a good mentor and of a good protege. Also gives strategies for selecting a good mentor. (JOW)

Offers an eight-step approach to the team writing process that will help document managers avoid, minimize, and resolve problems found in the team writing process. (SR)

Results from 179 of 346 people surveyed were as follows: (1) mentors rated their proteges' relationships with peers, supervisors, and departments less favorably than did proteges; (2) supervisors rated nonproteges' similar relationships more favorably than nonproteges did; and (3) mentors' and supervisors' ratings of their proteges/subordinates…