This case study follows a teacher who moved from context to context as a preservice teacher, substitute teacher, long-term replacement teacher, and beginning teacher within two contexts. The study illuminates ways that particularities of placements influence what is available for teachers to come to know, what is called good teaching, and who is…

Investigated the impact of work values on principals' decisions regarding teacher selection. Principals with dominant work values (as determined by a comparative emphasis scale) performed four written teacher-selection simulations. Researchers regressed ratings of teacher candidates on principal and teacher-dominant work values and…

Examines what is happening in teacher education regarding teaching instructional planning processes, sharing one novice teacher's experiences with instructional planning in the context of secondary-level social-studies student teaching. The story illustrates the complexities involved as student teachers plan for classroom instruction. Four…

Examines three case studies of educators (teachers, administrators, and paraprofessionals) who came together initially during a summer professional development experience. Through a two-week immersion, educators and facilitators engaged in challenging their assumptions and practice through the lens of constructivist pedagogy. The immersion evolved…

Explores the use of oral and written discourse by two teachers in a graduate educational-studies program as they constructed knowledge about teaching and enacted the teaching-learning dialectic. The case studies examine the two teachers' motivations for entering graduate school, their individual processes for learning, their elaborations of…

A social studies methods course for preservice Inuit student teachers in Canada mediated between the knowledge and professional skills required of social studies teachers as presented in the textbook and the knowledge brought by the Inuit students. Using genealogy, concept webs, and timelines, the instructor gave Inuit knowledge as much weight as…

Examined relations between Israeli teachers' subject matter knowledge (SMK), teaching experience, and espoused mental models (MMs) about children's learning. The SMK tested was English "wh-" constructions. Seventh-grade teachers were classified on subject matter tasks to have high or low SMK. Interviews examined their MMs. Despite differences in…

The contrast between reflective practice and technicism may be caricatured as a contrast between sensitive, authentic aestheticism and crude scientism. The paper argues that this is misleading, and reflective practice easily serves as a vehicle for self-disclosure which actually coheres with the technicist bias of many teacher education courses.…

Previous research showed associations between students' perceptions of teacher interpersonal style and several variables. This study examined associations between the students' perceptions and judges' ratings of interpersonal aspects of videotaped teacher behavior. Survey data indicated that there were strong correlations between students'…

Examines what junior high teachers believe they manage in their classrooms and how they perceive and use strategies in this management. Observations and interviews highlight three themes that convey the complexity of teacher management and strategies: teachers' management classroom space, the energy of people and pedagogy within classroom space,…

Examined the effect of eliminating tracking and instead teaching heterogeneous classes using cooperative learning. Observations of high school classes, interviews with students and teachers, and specimen data found several changes in pedagogy and attitudes, including more student-centered, interactive classes; greater higher-order questioning and…

Proposes a framework on teaching as a moral activity. After discussing recent arguments about the moral dimensions of teaching, examines larger societal disagreements about the concept of the moral, arguing that the moral dimensions of teaching can be derived from the practice itself rather than from a theoretical or philosophical posture…

Examined two British mentors' conceptions of their role and their views about what had influenced those conceptions. Also investigated the mentors' pedagogical practice and looked at how three student teachers responded to their mentoring experiences with the two mentors. Data from interviews with the mentors and students indicated that many…

Schoolwide events to promote healthy lifestyles include fitness field day; family-fitness night; geography run; school health fair; morning and evening stretches and workouts; Jump Rope for Heart, Hoops for Heart, and Step for Heart; All Children Exercising Simultaneously; holiday classics; neighborhood fitness trail; morning and evening workouts;…

Describes hemophilia and ways to provide appropriate physical education experiences to children with hemophilia. The article focuses on what hemophilia is, how to treat hemophilia, benefits of physical activity, how to teach children with hemophilia, choosing and modifying sports and activities, and safety and emergency situations. (SM)