Describes TeacherNet, a program designed to integrate technology use during student teaching at California State University, Long Beach. A study of TeacherNet's usefulness found that the program increased student reflectivity, rapport with supervisors, team support, self-esteem, knowledge and use of information access and retrieval, and use of…

Describes efforts in The Netherlands to reform school curriculum, integrate information technology into the new curriculum, and implement new approaches to teacher support and inservice simultaneously, focusing on evaluation of and reactions to some of the innovative approaches to teacher support and inservice. (SM)

Members of the Association of State Technology-Using Teacher Educators completed questionnaires about the availability of computer programming within the California State University (CSU) system, noting its characteristics if it existed. Though programming still exists in there, it is evolving to include authoring tools and is still taught for…

Reports a study that examined the responses of education students to a case study in diversity. Three cohorts of students with different amounts of experience wrote responses to a teaching case. Researchers analyzed differences among groups' responses. Constructs from multicultural education were infrequently used by students in all groups.…

This study examined the relationships between teacher autonomy and certain attitudinal and work-related variables. Public school teachers completed the Survey of Teacher Characteristics and Activities. Autonomous teachers were more satisfied with their profession, perceived a lighter paperwork load, had a more positive attitude toward students,…

This study assessed college students' attitudes toward a national service program similar to that in the National and Community Service Trust Act (NCSTA). Students' overall support for NCSTA's goals related to beliefs about the value of the educational benefits to be derived and the anticipated long-term impact on civic awareness. (SM)

A higher education version of the Diligence Inventory for Secondary Students was developed to address student effort in regard to his/her educational development. Undergraduate and graduate students completed the survey. The new version underwent some structural modifications in the scales, but both versions possessed excellent reliability and…

This study explored differences in teaching efficacy among Korean preservice early childhood and elementary teachers beginning and completing preservice programs. Subjects completed a teacher efficacy scale. Results indicated that preservice teachers became more efficacious regarding personal efficacy and less positive about teachers' general…

Explores the role of language and the related linguistic skills (oracy) in traditional, indigenous African education, addressing the role and nature of proverbs, riddles, word games, arithmetic puzzles, dilemma tales, and fables, myths, and legends as well as the use of praise songs and praise poems in traditional African communities. (Author/SM)

Identifies and describes briefly the various forms taken by education in Germany today, portrays some of the factors that are currently influencing it, and presents some of the challenges it is facing. Among these challenges are reunification, multinationalism, multiculturalism, and evidence of some radical political and social influences.…

This article explores the principles of inclusion and least restrictive environment (LRE) for disabled students in physical education, discusses relevant legislation, examines how the term mainstreaming complicates accurate interpretations of LRE, notes how rules governing individualized education programs in physical education help clarify…

Basic instruction programs have existed for over 130 years. The article discusses the importance of physical education in basic instruction programs and suggests five areas that must be improved if basic programs are to survive (better teaching, curriculum stimulation, administrative commitment, faculty stewardship, and research domain). (SM)

Teachers must understand their personal biases, their own cultures, and the biases and cultures of their students to help students develop the sensitivities to function in a diverse world. Four articles examine multicultural education, ethnicity, racism, and the development of culturally relevant pedagogy for teachers, highlighting physical…

Cognitive instructional cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) programs are beneficial to secondary students. Though health and physical educators recognize the need for cognitive information in fitness programs, there is little practice in secondary school fitness programs. The article makes recommendations for including valid, cognitively related…

Resistance to self-direction in learning often results from misconception: self-direction is all or nothing, implies learning in isolation, is a fad, is not worth the time, is an easy way out for teachers, and is the one best way for adults. The relationship of self-directed learning to humanist concepts also gives rise to resistance. (SK)