Education articles from March 1999

Education archives from March 1999

INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS.
March 22, 1999... Introduction The Texas Long-Range Plan for Technology, 1996-2010 (TEA, 1996) identifies a comprehensive set of goals for Texas public schools in the following areas: * Teaching and Learning * Educator Preparation and Development...

A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT.
March 22, 1999... A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF The University of Texas at Arlington Arlington, Texas 76019-0227 As we approach the beginning of the third millennium our country faces an education challenge of emerging-crisis proportions. Simply put, the...

REDESIGNING TEACHER EDUCATION.
March 22, 1999... The University of Texas at Arlington and the School of Education are uniquely prepared and positioned to provide leadership for improving the quality of teacher education in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex and the state of Texas through school...

PASSING THE TORCH: PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT BENCHMARKS FOR PRESERVICE TEACHERS AND MENTOR TEACHER TRAINING.
March 22, 1999... The health of our nation and the strength of our medical profession depend on knowledge and competency developed through training in the classroom, internship and residency. Likewise, our intellectual vigor and national strength depend on...

SMILE.
March 22, 1999... A smile costs nothing, but it creates much. It happens in a flash, but the memory of it lasts forever. It cannot be begged, borrowed or stolen, but it is of no earthly good until it is given away So, if in your hurry you...

REFORM IN TEACHER EDUCATION: THE RESPONSE TO ACCOUNTABILITY IS COLLABORATION.
March 22, 1999... "Good teaching is more important than ever before in our nation's history" (National, 1996). As the United States prepares to enter the 21st century, the debate over how to solve problems within our nation's educational system targets many...

THE ROLE OF COLLABORATION IN TEACHER PREPARATION TO MEET THE NEEDS OF DIVERSITY.
March 22, 1999... Preparing university students to teach in twenty-first century classrooms that will be more ethnically and culturally diverse requires a paradigm shift to collaboration among systems relevant to education. Best practices from schools,...

CONSTRUCTING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT TEACHING AND LEARNING IN EARLY CHILDHOOD TEACHER EDUCATION BECAUSE OF A PARTNERSHIP.
March 22, 1999... One current theme that runs through numerous reports on reforming education is the need for faculty in university programs and K-12 schools to share the responsibility for teacher preparation (Goodlad, 1990, 1991; Holmes, 1990; Rigden, 1996)....

New England Board of Higher Education.
March 22, 1999... New England's colleges and universities should take steps to encourage so-called "School-to-Career" initiatives such as a Boston Private Industry Council program that link the classroom with internships in medical technology, financial services...

THE CREATION AND EVOLUTION OF AN ELEMENTARY FIELD-BASED READING COURSE: A PROFESSOR'S PERSPECTIVE.
March 22, 1999... A compelling reason for taking any teacher preparation course into the field is to expose students to real world situations where they can actually see content connect with pedagogy in a real sense rather than to vicariously imagine through...

PORTFOLIOS IN A PRESERVICE TEACHER FIELD-BASED PROGRAM: EVOLUTION OF A RUBRIC FOR PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT.
March 22, 1999... Introduction The evolution of a rubric for performance assessment review of preservice teacher portfolios as a requirement of the field-based model is traced from a chart of expectations, to a list of required items, to a detailed rubric...

A VIEW FROM THE TOP ON COLLABORATION: SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS' PERSPECTIVES ON A FIELD-BASED TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM.
March 22, 1999... In school settings, the principal is the key figure in all areas in the educational arena. The principal and the administrative team set the tone for the entire school community. The purpose of this article is to take a look at one particular...

A UNIVERSITY AND CHARTER SCHOOL COLLABORATION BORN OUT OF GREAT NEED.
March 22, 1999... What can happen when a society cries out for solutions from its educational institution? What can happen when the social ills of a society concentrate themselves in schools and ask their resident educators to solve them? What can happen when...

WHERE THERE'S A WILL, THERE'S A WAY! CREATING UNIVERSITY, PUBLIC, PRIVATE, CHARTER, AND FOR-PROFIT SCHOOL COLLABORATIVES.
March 22, 1999... We wanted to do something different at The University of Texas at Arlington. We wanted to prepare school leaders in a better way. Moreover, we wanted to be actively involved in improving K-12 education. This was a huge goal. We could not do it...

PARTNERSHIPS FOR PROGRESS.
March 22, 1999... Collaboration involves partnerships and shared effort. Individuals and organizations collaborate to achieve the synergy and leverage derived from that shared effort. One of the key attributes of a strong mission-driven public university is...

AN OUTSIDER LOOKING IN: TOTAL INCLUSION AND THE CONCEPT OF EQUIFINALITY.
March 22, 1999... Introduction Efforts to integrate disabled students into the least restrictive milieu, generally the neighborhood school, are fast becoming the dominant educational ideology. The concepts of mainstreaming, integration and inclusion are now...

THE EFFECT OF YEAR-ROUND SCHOOLING ON ADMINISTRATORS.
March 22, 1999... We began this study after hearing many anecdotal comments about exhaustion and burn-out among year-round multi-track administrators. For example, one administrator related that she had been a year-round elementary principal for three and a half...

ACADEMIC VARIABLES: IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH CARE.
March 22, 1999... The American health care system is undergoing tremendous changes in structure and function in order to come to grips with managed care, medical education and academic medical centers. Within the past few years, medical education has...

AN EXPLORATION OF EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION AS AN INSTRUCTIONAL METHODOLOGY FOR TRAVEL AND TOURISM.
March 22, 1999... Introduction Many of the curricula involved in travel and tourism on both national and international bases are constantly seeking new forms of instructional methodology to increase their effectiveness. (Koh, 1995; Everett, 1994; Schubert,...

GREAT PROMISE FOR SCHOOL PROBLEMS.
March 22, 1999... American Academy of School Psychology Dr. David H. Reilly the present President of the American Academy of School Psychology, and Dr. Walt Pryzwansky, past president of that same organization agreed to be featured in the Summer issue of...

INDICATORS OF "AT-RISK" PERFORMANCE BY STUDENT TEACHERS IN A PRESERVICE ELEMENTARY EDUCATION PROGRAM.
March 22, 1999... There is widespread consensus that student teaching is the key experience in university-based teacher preparation programs (Guyton and McIntyre, 1990). Factors affecting student teaching include university preparation prior to student teaching,...

MALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS' RATINGS OF JOB SATISFACTION BY YEARS OF TEACHING EXPERIENCE.
March 22, 1999... Teaching in American public schools in grades K-12 is largely a female pursuit. Discussions of the diversification of the American teaching force, have generally focused on two areas: (1) the under-representation of people of color in the...

CONDUCT DISORDER VS. ATTENTION-DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER: DIAGNOSTIC IMPLICATIONS FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN ADOLESCENT MALES.
March 22, 1999... It seems that the buzz diagnosis for adolescents experiencing difficulties focusing and attending in class, as well as staying on task, and following instructions, is Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Attention-Deficit...

COMPARING THE JOB-SKILL REQUIREMENTS AND SELF-FULFILLMENT FOR A GROUP OF FUTURE TEACHERS.
March 22, 1999... The present study sought to compare the acquisition of Fortune 500 Job-Skills for 21st Century and Self-fulfillment for 128 future teachers at a university in Tennessee. The students ranged in age from 20 to 47 years, with a mean age of 22.95,...

AN APPLICATION OF TINTO'S MODEL AT A COMMUTER CAMPUS.
March 22, 1999... Meaningful connections between the disciplines which have been popularized recently, appear in theories of higher education related to student departure. On the one hand, many attempts to explain student departure have relied heavily on...

EMPOWERING TEACHERS AND STUDENTS TO CHANGE THROUGH SHARED LANGUAGE.
March 22, 1999... Sapir (1941) and Whorf (1956) offered convincing evidence that we use words to construct our interpretation of experience, and conversely our experience shapes our language. For example, most people in the United States need only one word for...

IMPLICATIONS OF STUDENTS' WORLD VIEWS IN GRADUATE PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION PROGRAMS.
March 22, 1999... By the year 2050, European-Americans will make up approximately 53% of the population while Hispanics, African, Native and Asian Americans and other minorities will comprise the rest of American society (Morganthau, 1997; US Census Bureau,...

INTERPERSONAL DIMENSIONS OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH CONSULTATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION.
March 22, 1999... A labor-intensive responsibility of many educational researchers in higher education involves research consultation with students and other faculty. Educational research faculty often offer methodological and statistical expertise to graduate...

About The Guest Editor.
March 22, 1999... Bobbette M. Morgan, Ed. D. is an Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Texas at Arlington. She earned her doctorate at the University of Southern California, her Master of Arts from Central Michigan University, and her Bachelor...