The purpose of this study was to examine teachers' and administrators' beliefs about the Values Teaching Program and its implementation in Taiwan. The focus was on what teachers' beliefs about what curriculum principles ...

Suggestions for future team teaching practice included providing clear and specific definition of teaching roles and responsibilities, adequate time for planning and discussing issues on team teaching, effective communicating ...

The narratives created tensions that stimulated preservice educators to talk about how they would handle the situations articulated by the veteran teachers. The participants agreed that the ideas in the narratives made ...

A mismatch between the language used at home and that required for success in school is often cited as a possible explanation for the widespread educational failure of lower-class minority children. The belief is that the ...

The property tax is one source of revenue for local governments. In 1977, the Illinois legislature passed a law which sets up procedures whereby a municipality can declare certain areas within its boundaries as a Tax ...

This case study examines the history of a teacher-initiated and managed school improvement effort in a small elementary school in East Central Illinois. It also explores teachers' perceptions of the internal and external ...

This research is an attempt to identify teacher characteristics associated with the relative degrees to which the Science Education Program for Africa (SEPA) approach to teaching science is being used in Liberia.

In conclusion, several issues are discussed: autonomy and shared control, choices of facilitation contexts, safety and classroom management as facilitation constraints, and curriculum provisions. Implications for teaching ...