We describe our school/university professional development school (PDS) partnership through the voices of the participants. We suggest that long-term professional growth and the accompanying recognition of professional self requires consideration of the complexity of the endeavor. There is general recognition of the role of collegiality and…

The objective of this study was to investigate undergraduate students' perceptions of their professors' and teaching assistants' communication based emotional support and immediacy behaviors. Also, the study focused on sex differences between professors and teaching assistants. The study found that undergraduate students are able to perceive…

The aim of this article is to discuss guidelines for support staff experiencing aggression in schools and to develop an approach for the support staff to deal with aggression to facilitate their mental health. The researchers explored the experience of aggression of the support staff in a chosen school by conducting phenomenological, unstructured…

The world regards AIDS as the most disastrous health threat in the world. HIV/AIDS- related issues amongst adolescents were initially neglected due to the visible impact of this pandemic on babies and adults. Adolescents' behavior is however regarded as high-risk because of their involvement in sexual activities from a young age. The purpose of…

In the 1960s, the U.S. business community utilized the term "push/pull" to indicate whether or not industry should use the "one-size-fits all" or whether it should listen to consumers' needs and feedback as a system of producing and marketing products. As well, U.S. public education has become much more accountability-laden since the 1970s, partly…

The study's purpose was to examine emotional intelligence skills and potential problem areas of elementary educators. The study provided elementary educators with a self-assessment of emotional intelligence skills to utilize in the workplace and beyond. An improved understanding of personal skills and weaknesses may lessen educator's risk of…

Within the past two decades multicultural education initiatives have focused on promoting culturally responsive pedagogy among preservice teachers through the use of classroom and fieldwork experiences in teacher preparation programs. However, to our knowledge, no teacher preparation programs have formally integrated the use of online resources to…

A review of the literature shows significant violence (both physical and verbal threats) in schools in the United States (U.S.). Almost all of the studies focus on violence by students and against students. There is very limited information about violence involving employees in the schools even though teachers are three times more likely to be…

Faced with the realization that a competent workforce is critical for the success of the nation's businesses in a globally competitive market, efforts are being made to ensure that workers are prepared to meet the demands of a high-performance workplace. One response to this challenge includes educational reforms that embrace and promote the…

The effectiveness of the Ecological, Futures, and Global (EFG) curriculum was evaluated in a single elementary school. The EFG curriculum is a project-based approach to learning that is integrated into a traditional curriculum. Research comparing project-based learning such as EFG with the traditional curricula has shown potential for several…

The writer has tried to lift the veil of mystery from the Rorschach Cards by uncovering in simple form the ten basic principles of Zygmunt Protrowski which can be considered the foundation stones of Rorschach; they are composed of psycho-justifications as well as meaningful administrative procedures allowing the reader broader understanding of…

This qualitative study explores how college faculty and students make sense of the Capstone process by examining their perspectives of this culminating performance assessment used in a graduate-level secondary education program. Students and faculty articulated positive benefits about the Capstone process including the benefit of opportunities for…

This report describes measures and methods of data analysis and representation of a systemic approach to the assessment of curricular and pedagogical contributions to general education learning objectives. An existing system for student evaluation of teaching was transformed to enable faculty to designate the learning objectives of the course and…

The Killer Whale, Shamu jumps through hoops and splashes tourists in hopes for the big fish, not because of passion, desire or simply the enjoyment of doing so. What would happen if those fish were obsolete? Would this killer whale be able to find the passion to continue to entertain people? Or would Shamu find other exciting activities to do…

In this study, confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) were conducted to facilitate the examination of the status quo of the developmentally and culturally inappropriate practices (DCIP) that may exist in U.S. kindergarten programs given the self-reports and preferences of a nationally representative sample of kindergarten teachers (N=3,047) and…