Assessed in this article is a program designed to prepare teachers with diverse positions on the art of teaching. (MM)

A mental health consultation program is described which was developed to supplement traditional educational psychology courses in making psychological theory relevant to classroom practice. (MJB)

Teacher educators must actively, rather than reactively, engage themselves in the definition of educational "quality" if they wish to develop an educational future at all reflective of their desires and beliefs. (MJB)

The future challenge facing institutions of higher education will be in providing better education for individual students rather than expanding facilities and broadening course selection. (JD)

A comprehensive faculty development program is concerned not only with the faculty member as a person and as a professional but also as a member or a complex interdependent social system. (JD)

This article describes the work of the Faculty Resource Center at the University of Cincinnati and the programs it provides related to faculty development and discusses the need for examining organizational, interpersonal, and personal constraints on the behaviors of college faculty. (JD)

For those involved with faculty development and improving teaching quality, new literature is available which describes and evaluates programs, gives suggestions, and reports current research. (JD)

A pressing and recurrent problem in developing curriculum material is the unnecessary duplication of work done by others; to avoid this, the nine-campus University of California has established a computer data base containing information on all courses and programs being currently offered by the school. (JD)

Lecturing, as a means of conveying information is often an inefficient format; learning demands involvement from the learner and behaviors that maximize audience contact and interaction will enhance attention and facilitate learning. (JD)

In this article three stages of the teaching process are examined: planning, interaction, and assessment. (JD)

The use of videotape as an instructional tool in teacher education has proved to be of considerable value. (JD)

Special instructional improvement grant programs have been created on many college and university campuses to provide faculty members with the resources for designing and carrying out educational innovations in their courses. (JD)

The history, goals, and current activities of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Stanford University are outlined and discussed in this article. The Center's main areas of concern are graduate student teaching, guidance for young faculty, and faculty renewal. (JD)

A systematic program to improve the quality of instruction by college faculty focuses on the following goals: to have each course taught in a highly effective manner; to have academic programs be useful and effective; to have faculty members value high quality instruction; and to obtain useful and valid evidence about the effectiveness of courses…