Education articles from March 1998

Education archives from March 1998

A university's mission: responding to community needs.
March 22, 1998... In the last decade of the 19th century, two educational institutions were founded in Lowell, Massachusetts to respond to the economic and social needs of that time. The Lowell Textile School was incorporated in 1895, by owners of textile mills...

A model of a preservice teacher preparation program.
March 22, 1998... Interest in the process of becoming a teacher has increased in recent years. For the past decade national reports such as Tomorrow's Teachers: A Report of the Holmes Group (The Holmes Group, 1986),A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st...

Need for lesson analysis in effective lesson planning.
March 22, 1998... In the instructional process the lesson is the primary organizing structure. While developing and presenting a lesson, a classroom teacher confronts many pedagogical issues and makes choices directed toward assisting students to acquire...

Discussion teaching through case methods.
March 22, 1998... Discussion teaching through case methods is increasingly being used in teacher education programs as a means for empowering teachers to play a more active leadership role in schools today. Teaching through case methods has become an...

Learning science at a distance: using interactive television to work with schools.
March 22, 1998... In the 1980's the College of Education at the University of Massachusetts Lowell pioneered the use of a two-way television network linking it to public school districts in northeastern Massachusetts. In the thirteen years of the network's...

The greater Boston urban education collaborative.
March 22, 1998... When university faculty see transfer students as inadequately prepared for upper level course work in the disciplines, and when community college faculty perceive university faculty as being unrealistic in their expectations, it is the...

Defining and measuring the dimensions of teacher empowerment in restructuring public schools.
March 22, 1998... The focus of the Venture Capital Schools in Ohio is on restructuring education with the local school building as the unit of analysis. Advocates of this new focus of school reform (e.g., Comer 1988; Elmore 1990; Griffin, 1991; The Holmes...

Career paths: selected attitudes of new rural school administrators.
March 22, 1998... Much has been written about school improvement and reform in the nineties. As we approach the year 2000, the needs of our public schools pervade the literature, educational dialogue and the minds and hearts of parents who send their children...

A lesson plan model for the supervision of student teaching.
March 22, 1998... Supervision of student teaching is the typical capstone instructional modality in preservice teacher training. Its goal is to advance the student's integration of skills and to determine if an independent teaching assignment may be taken on in...

Development and analysis of a scale to assess students' out-of-school science-related experiences.
March 22, 1998... Young children bring a variety of experiences to the classroom. A constructivist approach requires teachers to engage students in learning experiences that build upon prior knowledge. To connect new data with preexisting mental constructs,...

Language, lectures, and learning: a language-based approach to increasing understanding.
March 22, 1998... Introduction Teaching an introductory social science course (or any course for that matter) to one or two hundred students is never an easy task. In addition to having to manage the yards of names and social security numbers provided...

Power and the esteemed professorate.
March 22, 1998... Introduction One of the most enjoyable experiences the senior author of this article remembers as a college student included hearing many provocative stories about university professors. The stories especially focused on the...

Measuring how much students have learned.
March 22, 1998... As a skeptic in Ancient Athens, Georgias was to have stated that nothing could be known. If something could have been known, it could not be communicated. If it could be communicated, it would not be understood. Drawing a corollary, attempting...

Student enjoyment of physical education class in three teaching style environments.
March 22, 1998... Physical education class has its unique contribution to student well being. To have fun is always one of the top priorities of students who attend physical education class. Enjoyment of class is the positive attribute of student emotion as...

Extra fiscal and time resources for school, provided by classroom teachers.
March 22, 1998... Recent reform efforts in school restructuring have created school governance structures at local school sites to allow more inputs from classroom teachers under the shared-decision-making models. While decisions in the areas of curriculum,...

Do increasing adolescent suicide rates result in increasing prevention/postvention programs in Ohio schools?: a survey.
March 22, 1998... Adolescent suicide continues to be a major cause of death of our youth. The National Center for Health Statistics (1996) has found suicide to be the 3rd leading cause of death for 15-24 year olds, behind only accidents and homicide and the...

Storytelling as a pedagogical tool in higher education.
March 22, 1998... Introduction In the earliest of times, prior to the advent of writing, storytelling was the only tool available by which individuals within their communities could preserve and share their heritage. Stories not only explained life and...

The role of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
March 22, 1998... "If you can read this, thank a teacher." A simplistic bumper sticker displayed on numerous vehicles traveling the nation's highway continues to haunt and to inspire those who view it, particularly members of the teaching profession. Is the...

Reflective practice groups in teacher induction: building professional community via experiential knowledge.
March 22, 1998... Introduction Historically, the reality of classroom teaching in American schools has involved a single teacher placed in a classroom full of students. The teacher's job has been to move students through the curriculum and, to the...

Putting principles into practice: parent perceptions of a co-taught inclusive classroom.
March 22, 1998... In the past few decades, the integration of children with disabilities into general education classrooms has become an accepted principle. Parents who were once told that a segregated program would provide the "best setting" for their children...

New Hope seminars on domestic violence with suggested holistic counseling.
March 22, 1998... "A woman, a Spaniel and a Walnut Tree The More They Are Beaten The Better They Be" Traditional Gloucester Ditty (Landes, et al, 1995, 2) About four million American women are physically abused by husbands or...