A program for graduate teaching assistants features a ten-week seminar with a three-part format: the videotaping of participants while teaching; self-analysis of the videotape performance; and discussion of teaching ideas and problems. (JD)

This article provides a review of two new national networks in the area of faculty development, the "Faculty Development and Evaluation in Higher Education Newspaper" and the "Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education." (JD)

In a step towards moving learning out of the classroom and into the world, the State and National Parks of the United States have opened their doors to teachers and students as part of a new program called "Environmental Living Experiences." (JD)

This is a report on the work of the California Commission for Teacher Preparation on the Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study (BTES), to determine which skills and qualities are necessary for the beginning teacher to impart learning effectively in the classroom. (JD)

An important part of curriculum planning for the teacher is knowing how to evaluate time expenditures against learning goals for individual students. (JD)

The objective of this analysis on use of time in the classroom was to show whether or not students who spend more time in a particular content area also show higher achievement in that content area; the qualified conclusion is that more time yields more learning. (JD)

The results of this study indicate that teacher expectations can have a substantial impact on student achievement, but that the strongest single predictor of teacher expectations is the student's achievement record. (JD)

The technical language used in reports on educational research can be a barrier for the classroom teacher who would like to implement the results of that research effectively, indicating a need for clearer communication between the researcher and the teacher who will be the instrument of change. (JD)

Improving student achievement through implementing the results of educational research is the responsibility of actively engaged school personnel--superintendents, principals, and teachers working together bring about effective educational change. (JD)

Research based upon the concept that teaching consists of separate, enumerable acts has proven the opposite: that it is composed of interrelated activities and influences. (MJB)

The most important job of the teacher educator is to link results of educational research to classroom application in a given school room with a given group of children and a specific teacher. (JD)

The process of developing teacher training materials from research findings is necessary in order to investigate the applicability of the findings of these studies to teaching in classrooms. (JD)

Teacher educators should not limit their attention to a single variety of teaching but should devote some time to the study of extra-school teaching in order to gain perspective on their major area of interest. (JD)

Discusses institutional tension between whether to accept creative, innovative teaching or to protect the status quo and the standardized curriculum. (CD)

Argues that teacher training is less rigorous than training for other professions and consequently beginning teachers experience more anxiety in trying to perform their various roles in the classroom. (CD)