There is a conceptual world surrounding writing in schools, and we are conditioned to a particular language about composition and literacy. This study seeks to interrogate the terms composition and literacy at the level of the classroom: to ask what is meant when it is invoked and what it means to the teachers who teach it. The central question of…

Provides a short summary of the life of an award-winning English teacher. (JL)

Provides a brief biography of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, nineteenth century New England progressive educator. Describes her teaching methods, which emphasized developing analytic thinking, maintaining childrens' self-respect, and crediting childrens' innate abilities. (DHP)

A continuing need for comprehensive and timely information about the public school teachers of the United States led the National Education Association (NEA) Research Division in 1956 to develop the first of a series of surveys and subsequent reports covering various aspects of teachers' professional, family, and civic lives. The NEA has conducted…

Web-based resources have the potential for improving classroom instruction through access to new scholarship, diverse perspectives on historical events and current issues, and online connections to people under study. This study is based on a three-year examination of how social studies teachers make decisions on using websites to rethink their…

That individual schools and districts often simultaneously engage in multiple professional development projects in a "one-size-fits-all" model poses several quandaries. One quandary is attempting to foster a particular teacher behavior or disposition with little follow-up. A second is implementing a school-wide (or district-wide) program…

This layered account of arts education is produced through the three authors' critical reflections of experiences in their own early childhood education, and their pre-service teacher education. The first layer establishes links between the arts, learning in the arts and critically reflective practices through an account of teaching and learning…

This report concerns itself with the data that was summarized from the 1978-79 administration of the Teaching Stress Events Inventory to the teachers of the Portland (Oregon) Federation of Teachers. Background information on the Inventory itself, a summary of the demographic characteristics of the teachers surveyed, and descriptive statistics…

An analysis of the job market for teachers indicates that the average candidate's ability to find a job will be influenced by his geographic preference and his subject area specialization. Geographically, the greatest opportunity is in areas of high population concentration. Certain subjects, such as science and mathematics, have a high demand for…

Recounts how a graduate student in education struggled to write her first poem before going out to teach poetry to students. (JL)

Describes the career change of an NBC news producer, an engineer, and executive director, and a lawyer, who left their high-powered, high-paying jobs to become educators, teaching computer science, mathematics, and fourth grade. All agree that their previous career experience will benefit their teaching careers. (JOW)

A survey was conducted with 67 science teachers who taught deaf children at the elementary school level. Teacher background variables, information about teacher preparation and certification, preferred teaching methods, communication methodologies, curriculum, and the use of technology were gathered. A purposeful, convenience sampling technique…

Background/Context: In this article, we trace the development of a prospective secondary science teacher as she begins to examine her identity as a White person. We explore how the social languages of her teacher education program challenge, intermingle, and blend with ones she brought to the program from her midwestern small-town childhood and a…

The Committee on National Program Priorities in Teacher Education (CNPPTE) was established to make recommendations for program development to the U.S. Office of Education Personnel Development and Task Force '72. The recommendations focus on developing the necessary conditions for competency-based teacher education and certification, as well as…