Schools across the United States are creating teacher teams in ever-greater numbers. "Teaming" refers to assembling a group of teachers from different disciplines and/or grade levels who work together as a "core group" responsible for teaching a subset of the school's population. This brief examines some of the potential conflicts between teacher…

This practicum was designed to improve communication and collaboration between health care providers and early childhood intervention educators who provide services to children (ages 7 months to 4 years) who are medically fragile or have other special needs and their families. The lack of communication or collaboration is documented, and a…

This practicum report describes the design and implementation of an oral motor program to increase the verbal communication skills of seven pre-kindergarten children with developmental delays, including hypotonia in oral motor development with moderate to severe articulation difficulties. Collaborative planning by the pre-kindergarten special…

This document consists of four papers presented during a symposium on career development moderated by David Bjorkquist at the 1996 conference of the Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD). "A Mentoring Model for Career Development" (Mary Finnegan) describes a study that created a model based on the assumption that mentoring is an essential…

This report describes Teamworks, a 3-year project in Chicago, Illinois, that addressed the need for greater collaboration and teamwork between general program and bilingual/ESL teachers in the teaching community. Infrequent communication between these two teacher groups caused fractured education for the limited-English-proficient (LEP) students…

This role-play activity is designed for use by teacher educators in a general or content area methods class to help education majors become knowledgeable of role expectations in the student teaching experience and build good interpersonal role relationships. Students conduct library research and interviews concerning role expectations, use the…

This manual examines the planning process for building or renovating new library media facilities. It is concerned with building programs, local building and fire codes, design, working with architects, reading blueprints, engineering and mechanical plans, budgets, bids, and change orders. It offers help with such sensitive issues as the politics…

Findings of a study that examined teachers' perceptions of and experiences in shared-governance schools are presented in this paper. Data were collected from interviews with over 21 teachers and students in 4 schools that are members of the Georgia-based League of Professional Schools, the impetus of which was the Program for School Improvement,…

One reason all 50 states have passed laws requiring school personnel to report suspected child abuse is that the school may be the primary setting in which children interact on a regular basis with nonfamily members. Because teachers interact with children on a daily basis, they are particularly well positioned to spot unusual behaviors in…

In spring 1986, Lincoln Land Community College (LLCC) initiated a program to provide part-time, off-campus instructors with the professional support required to improve teaching effectiveness. The plan involved training 14 "master teachers" to function as evaluators of part-time, off-campus instructors. Master teachers have a minimum of 5 years of…

This study looked at the critical elements of peer leadership exhibited by special and general educators in a school where the 21 teachers had the opportunity to develop a common language and knowledge base, to understand one another's beliefs about the children they teach, and to set common goals for their work. Analysis of peer leadership skills…

In rural northeastern South Carolina, a resource room teacher from a Hartsville elementary school and a teacher educator from Coker College supported each other during change processes affecting their respective programs. This voluntary 3-year association of a single college faculty member and a single classroom teacher was characterized by a…

The extent to which school-based management actually altered influence relations between a district office and schools and between principals and teachers is examined in this report. Five innovative initiatives implemented in the Dade County Public Schools--peer evaluation, different teacher roles, block scheduling, school-within-a-school, and…

This study was conducted to: (1) determine the concerns of beginning elementary teachers; (2) identify perceived successes of novice teachers; (3) learn the extent of orientation provided; (4) ascertain the kinds of professional support received from fellow teachers and administrators; (5) identify the kinds of professional assistance needed; and…

In 8 chapters and 2 appendixes, investigators describe research in 14 elementary and secondary schools--in urban, suburban, and rural areas--on school conditions affecting educational change efforts. Conducted over 3 years, the research focused on classroom-level changes and used interviews, observation, and document review for data collection and…