In the late 70s, the state of Alabama with coordinating leadership of the State Department of Education undertook an initiative to strengthen teacher preparation programs and the certification process' The College of Education of the University of Alabama was an active participant in the efforts. The author represented the university and…

The article describes the development and implementation of an administrative internship program for selected teachers based upon their interest in and perceived potential for development in an administrative/leadership directions in the largest school system in Alabama. The system cooperated with the State Department of Education and the…

The authors link the educational research by Rosenthal and Jacobson ("Pygmalion in the Classroom") with Livingston's ("Pygmalion in Management") from the business arena in looking through concept of Executive Professional Leadership advanced by Gross and Herriott. The position is taken that the "Principal can really…

The article describes an approach used in organizing a large secondary school for leadership that emphasizes the importance of curriculum and instructional leadership. The lead author was the director of curriculum and instruction in the school. The principal utilized his position in linking the several organizational levels in the school in a…

Two sets of Supreme Court cases are examined and their links discussed in the context of the recent Jeffries v. Harleston court case concerning the City College of New York. The first pertains to and reflects general protection of academic freedom in public colleges and universities; the second concerns speech rights of public school teachers and…

Internationalization is an increasingly important issue in higher education around the world. "Global education can no longer be viewed as a secondary consideration; we must recognize that it is central to developing graduates who can cope effectively with the modern, interdependent world" (Wood, 1991). While universities and colleges…

The structure of attitudes toward services rendered by state departments was studied in six southeastern states with a 70-item scale. Development procedures are described. The scale was administered to randomly chosen samples of superintendents (N = 671), central office personnel (N = 404), principals (N = 627), teachers (N = 3,684), and other…

The chapter prepared for inclusion in a handbook for school board members focused upon the important relationships of boards, as boards, and individual board members with external organizations and agencies. The handbook was produced by the Alabama Schools Boards Association for its membership and for its use in the orientation of new board…

The chapter was prepared for inclusion in a resource book for beginning teachers in Alabama. The author takes a "multiple roles" approach in analyzing the demands on and expectations for the beginning teacher. It is research-based and closes with a "Ten Prescriptions for Success in the Classroom." The author found it to be a…

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TEACHING VOCABULARY CONCEPTS THROUGH DIRECT EXPERIENCE AND THE INFLUENCE ON READING ACHIEVEMENT AND CONCEPT ACHIEVEMENT WERE STUDIED. FORTY-TWO FIFTH-GRADE PUPILS DIVIDED INTO 21 PAIRS MATCHED ON SEX AND INTELLIGENCE WERE ASSIGNED RANDOMLY TO AN EXPERIMENTAL AND CONTROL GROUP. FOR 19 WEEKS, TWICE A WEEK FOR A TOTAL OF 40…

Reported is a study of the efficacy of the vocabulary instruction method for tenth grade biology classes through the use of "iterative" research procedures. In the original vocabulary instruction, preteaching was given to assist students in independently analyzing, pronouncing, and determining at least partial meanings for unfamiliar words; and…

This report describes an auding and reading model that accounts for the development of receptive oracy and literacy skills. The model presents a classification scheme for the development of reading and auding skills which considers basic adaptive processes, languaging precursors, and languaging processes. Four hypotheses consistent with the model…

This book consists of nine articles prepared for a 1973 conference that considered the lessons of two federally funded compensatory education projects of the late 1960s, the Follow Through program and the Head Start Planned Variation program. Both were planned variation programs, under which local communities were invited to design, implement, and…

The influence of positive change in instructional effectiveness upon several affective characteristics of teachers was investigated. The focus of the study was upon the influence this change in effectiveness might have upon measures of teachers' feelings of responsibility for student achievement, feelings toward teaching, and teachers'…

Forty-four junior high school students were randomly assigned to two vocabulary instruction treatments. One treatment used context-rich, three-sentence passages as sources for target word definition. The other, the semantic mapping treatment, entailed learning new words by identifying the similarities and differences with related, known words.…