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 teachers, but in other subjects, prospective teachers should improve their chances by broadening their competencies and obtaining certification in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Background, Teacher Certification, Teacher Supply and Demand
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 concerning each event in the Inventory are presented as well as differences among subgroups of respondents based upon selected characteristics. (Author)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Demography, Stress Variables, Teacher Background, Teacher Characteristics, Teachers
Recognizing the need for trained teachers to enter the classroom with confidence and professional capacity, Walla Walla College introduced a Child Psychology Experience program. Personnel from several departments contribute to this program. In connection with the child psychology courses, the project features a laboratory/demonstration center where a controlled environment helps teacher trainees become aware of emotion-laden issues, stemming from their own backgrounds, that are relevant in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Child Psychology, Laboratory Training, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Background, Teacher...
This study investigated the assumption that teachers who have been community college students are more effective as teachers at the community college level than are teachers who have never attended a community college. No significant relationship was found between instructor success as measured by the level of student retention in English composition classes and past instructor experience as a community college student. Limitations of the study were that retention was observed for only 8 weeks,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Colleges, Teacher Background, Teacher Evaluation, Parsons, Gary L., And...
This document presents descriptive information and statistics on teachers in Quebec from 1965-66 to 1971-72. The overall intent of this study is described as a complete presentation of information on teachers and a review of their individual characteristics with particular attention paid to the level of teaching, experience, and training. Supportive tables and charts are included throughout the text. There are five chapters. The document begins with an introduction and descriptions of sources,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Individual Characteristics, Surveys, Teacher Background, Teacher Characteristics,...
Background and personality characteristics which are associated with successful team teaching were investigated for this study. Members of 31 secondary school teaching teams were rated by judges (who were principals, deans, and college consultants) individually and as teams on the bases of 10 background characteristics and eight personality characteristics, and completed a 16-factor personality questionnaire which included the personality characteristics on which they were rated. Also, a rating...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Individual Characteristics, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Background, Team...
A study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of principals in structuring teaching teams; to assess background and personality characteristics appearing essential to successful individual and team performance; and to select personality factor scores which would predict individual and team success. Subjects were 31 teaching teams (99 teachers) from nine secondary schools in a district which had experimented with team teaching for 5 years. A group of judges (the nine principals, their...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Personality Measures, Teacher Background, Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Selection,...
A study was conducted to provide information to help policy makers improve the quality and quantity of teachers in Appalachia. A 69-item questionnaire was sent to a 20 percent random stratified sample of the approximately 162,000 teachers in the Appalachian part of 11 states. Analyses included determination of urban-rural differences, contingency tables to ascertain various relationships among characteristics, step-wise multiple regression procedure to identify aspects of school districts,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Geographic Regions, Rural Urban Differences, Teacher Background, Teacher...
This study was designed to be exploratory and descriptive in nature. Its purpose was to identify characteristics of adult educators in one Ohio county (Franklin) and to determine their specific training needs. Data were collected by use of mailed questionnaires, which were sent to a sample of 195 teachers and 27 administrators. The following conclusions were reached: (1) Adult educators in the county considered themselves well prepared in the field of adult education; (2) Factors that were...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Educational Needs, Questionnaires, Teacher Background, Teacher...
A teacher is likely to encounter three kinds of difficulty with technical writing instruction. The first is transitory difficulty, which a teacher may reasonably expect to overcome with practice. This is the difficulty a teacher may have in learning a new curriculum or the needs of a new group of students, in making up and grading assignments, and in gaining a feel for the technical style. Continuing difficulty is a problem a writing teacher may not expect to overcome, although teachers from...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Problems, Higher Education, Teacher Background, Technical Writing, Writing...
The Project PRIMES (Progress Research in Meeting Elementary Standards) system examines elementary schools in light of minimum standards set by the Ohio State Department of Education. This evaluation instrument is divided into five sections: (1) teacher strengths and weaknesses, (2) principal's strengths and weaknesses, (3) Instructional Components, (4) facilities, and (5) Citizenship. Questions pertain to elementary school social studies curriculum and instruction. (RC)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Evaluation, Elementary Education, Elementary Schools, Principals,...
This study identified prior career experiences of 612 junior college faculty in 10 of 12 junior colleges in Pennsylvania and investigated the relationship between identified career experiences and faculty attitudes toward progressive-traditional education issues. Attention was given to the prior career experiences that faculty members felt had the greatest influence on forming their attitudes toward education. These experiences were classified as (1) degree held; and (2) the kind of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Background, Educational Philosophy, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher...
This study attempted to determine if the "comparative advantages" debate case is a legitimate and logical approach to affirmative case construction in college and high school debate. The study population totaled 25 high school debate directors and 40 college and university debate directors. Four tape-recorded debates, in which an affirmative team presented a "typical" comparative-advantages case, were sent to coaches for critique and evaluation, structured around several...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bibliographies, Debate, Methods, Models, Questionnaires, Speech Education, Teacher...
Selected characteristics of full-time faculty employed at the University of Virginia during the fall of 1972 are included in this report. The characteristics described included sex, age, institution from which highest degree was obtained, number of years since taking the highest degree, level of highest degree, and years of experience. (MJM)
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Faculty, Educational Background, Higher Education, Institutional Research,...
The author reviews research evidence he considers pertinent to the selection of teacher education students and synthesizes the evidence into 11 criteria for selection. The areas of childhood development, adult learning, college influence on students, college student characteristics, and present selection practices are all explored. In particular, Haberman discusses the durability of values learned in childhood, the outstanding cognitive and affective characteristics of adults in their twenties...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Admission Criteria, Educational Supply, Open Enrollment, Teacher Background, Teacher...
This study sought to determine the views of teachers in 40 school systems in the service area of Southeast Georgia (SEGA) on teaching as a career and a variety of educational reform issues. Specific questions addressed by the study were: (1) How do teachers in SEGA perceive the teaching profession as a career opportunity? (2) How do SEGA teachers perceive various proposals for educational reform? (3) Do SEGA teachers, categorized on the basis of background variables, differ in their perceptions...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Choice, Elementary Secondary Education, Excellence in Education, Teacher...
This paper, the final product of a study, "International Comparison of Teachers' Salaries," on an exploratory effort to compare salaries of elementary and secondary school teachers in the United States with those in other economically advanced countries. Data was obtained from Canada, Denmark, Federal Republic of Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands. New Zealand, South Korea, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. The report presents the following comparisons: (1) comparisons of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign...
This paper summarizes teacher competencies in reading instruction, as defined in methods textbooks, curriculum guides, and reports by Harold A. Anderson, Robert L. Hillerich, Emma W. Rembert, the Illinois State University Department of Curriculum and Instruction, and the International Reading Association (IRA). Discussion focuses on four areas of teacher competency: general background, reading skills, instructional strategies, and measurement and evaluation. These categories are further divided...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Reading, Reading Instruction, Secondary Education, Teacher Background, Teacher...
A RESEARCH SURVEY IS DESCRIBED WHICH EXAMINES THE TEACHER'S ROLE IN THE SMALL RURAL SCHOOL AS IT IS PERCEIVED BY PRINCIPALS AND TEACHERS CURRENTLY EMPLOYED IN SMALL RURAL SCHOOLS, BY FACULTY MEMBERS IN COLLEGES AND DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION, AND BY TEACHER TRAINING STUDENTS IN FIVE STATES PARTICIPATING IN THE WESTERN STATES SMALL SCHOOLS PROJECT. THE DOCUMENT PRESENTS THE OBJECTIVES, PROCEDURES, TYPES OF QUESTIONNAIRES, THE RESULTING DATA, AND THE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS THAT WERE IDENTIFIED...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Environmental Influences, Questionnaires, Rural Schools, School Personnel, Small...
A very brief description of what an English instructor in the junior college should teach also emphasized the training he needs. (BN)
Topics: ERIC Archive, English Instruction, Higher Education, Reading Instruction, Teacher Background,...
Data are reported on the characteristics of private school teachers, including: gender, years of experience, teaching status, academic degrees, undergraduate majors, types and purposes of additional training, and teaching fields. The data are organized on the basis of selected school and teacher characteristics. The data are displayed in eight tables. The discussion of the data is brief (3 pages) and is organized under the headings: "Academic Degrees and Major Field of Undergraduate...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Degrees (Academic), Elementary Secondary Education, Intellectual Disciplines, Private...
The extent to which teachers use the services provided by The School Television Service (STS), the instructional division of Channel 13/WNDT (New York), was studied. After determining that the STS is representative of many broadcast instructional television agencies, a five-page questionnaire was administered to a sample of 1037 teachers whose school districts participated in STS. The sample provided 752 usable responses. Results showed that a majority (57.9 percent) of the respondents used the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Broadcast Television, Educational Facilities, Educational Television, Instructional...
This essay discusses two sets of creative teaching methods: live singing and dancing. The performance by an instructor can set a mode for students to achieve intellectual transformation by exploring issues of identity. The role of music, especially folk singing and dancing, is specifically examined within the intercultural context of communication. Performative dialogue can be used as an effective, novel technique to initiate and develop cultural connections and discussions of culture and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Singing, Dance, Ethnicity, Imagination, Folk Culture, Teaching Methods, Cultural...
The primary purpose of this study was to learn how socialization into the teaching profession is affected by the non-academic experiences of teachers. A secondary objective was to provide insight into the research on teaching that has demonstrated that teachers pass through stages of career development. Participants were two groups of teacher education graduates: those who were traditional college-age students (under 30) and those who were classified as nontraditional or returning students...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Development, Developmental Stages, Elementary Secondary Education,...
A recently issued report entitled "A Study of Our Nation's Schools" (Mayeske, 1959, SP 003 563) utilized the Educational Opportunities Survey data collected by direction of Congress in 1965. A large number of variables were reduced into a fewer number of indices for use in regression analysis. A technique for the partition of multiple correlation showed that for achievement, very little of the influence of the schools can be separated from the social background of their students, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Racial Factors, Schools, Socioeconomic Background, Students,...
A study was conducted to investigate the characteristics and personality profiles of the newly employed vocational teachers (agricultural, home economics, health,and industrial occupations) in Ohio who had not received professional teacher education. The 161 teachers included in the study were in attendance during a four-week preservice program on instruction at one of four Ohio universities. Data were collected using a demographic data sheet, the Tennessee Self Concept Scale, and the Edwards...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Beginning Teachers, Individual Characteristics, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher...
This paper presents a rationale for using a biographical approach in understanding how teachers think and act and how they have come to think and act in the way they do. This approach is seen as being able to provide a fundamental understanding of the teacher's perspective. Understanding how teachers individually and collectively think, act, develop professionally, and change during their careers might provide new insights as to how one might approach necessary reform, change, and improvements...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Autobiographies, Cultural Influences, Family Influence, Individual Development,...
This report examines teachers' educational background and students' overall performance on the Third International Mathematics and Science Study-Repeat (TIMSS-R). Data analyses show that there are 17 Delaware classrooms performing above the average U.S. student score of 502. The majority of teachers in the top 10 higher performing classrooms had undergraduate degrees in mathematics. The overall trend indicates that the higher performing classrooms have teachers with a graduate degree. Teachers'...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Mathematics Education, Performance Tests, Secondary Education, Standardized Tests,...
The minimum linguistic competence required of an English teacher must be sufficient knowledge to assess continuously the role of direct teaching of linguistics in the classroom; to express, directly or not, views about the nature of language and the structure of English which accord with the best scholarship available; and to counterbalance the effects of his own learning of English and guarantee the native speaker that the linguistic apparatus which will be used on or near him will be as...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conference Reports, English Instruction, Language Patterns, Linguistic Competence,...
This seventh annual report on staffing patterns in California community colleges provides data on the characteristics of new full-time faculty in 99 of the 100 public and the entire 8 private community colleges in California as of the academic year 1973-1974. Results of the survey showed that during that year, 732 new full-time faculty were hired in the colleges; there was a 97.86% retention rate of the old faculty. Of the new faculty, 55% were men and 45% were women. As to racial groupings,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annual Reports, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Postsecondary Education, Teacher...
The purpose of a study was to determine the demographics of the Diversified Technology (DT) program, its acceptance, and implementation in Mississippi. The DT program is a 2-year program to prepare 11th- and 12th-graders to go into postsecondary programs in technical areas such as hydraulics, robotics, lasers, and computer-aided design. At the time of the study there were 44 DT programs operating in Mississippi. Questionnaires were returned by 44 teachers, 42 vocational directors, 42...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Attitudes, High Schools, Student Characteristics, Student Recruitment,...
A study in Columbia, Missouri, revealed that many teacher and student background characteristics correlated weakly but significantly with teachers' perceptions of the frequency of discipline infractions and the effectiveness of disciplinary techniques. The data (derived from school records and from a questionnaire to which 162 elementary teachers responded) showed more experienced teachers as reporting less frequent drug use and fighting. These teachers also held less positive attitudes toward...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Age Differences, Discipline, Discipline Problems, Elementary Education, Racial...
This report contains statistical information on: (1) demographic and background characteristics of American college and university faculty, by sex, 1969: (2) professional background and academic activity, by sex, 1969: (3) attitudes of college faculty toward education, faculty, and the profession, by sex, 1969: (4) faculty political preferences and attitudes toward major social issues, by sex, 1969, and (5) faculty protest participation and attitudes on campus activism, by sex, 1969. The data...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Activism, Attitudes, Background, College Faculty, Faculty, Higher Education,...
This study used an ethnographic approach to analyze data on the teacher as self in the high school social studies classroom, examining patterns in social studies pedagogy and how the teacher's self is manifested in global education classrooms. Data came from observation reports, interviews, and document analyses at three high schools. Teacher interviews examined their personal backgrounds, then focused on identity. The data showed a distinct pattern in social studies pedagogy in that the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Athletics, Ethnicity, Global Education, High Schools, Occupations, Sexual Identity,...
This paper reports the results of a longitudinal study of graduates of the Secondary Teacher Education Program (STEP) 1959-1969. The sample included 94.6 percent (N=901) of all graduates during the 10-year period. The information collected was analyzed to answer the following questions: 1) How many graduates are in secondary teaching, other education-related positions, and non-educational occupations? 2) Are there differences among the three above-mentioned career groups in their evaluation of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Graduate Surveys, School Demography, Teacher Background, Teacher Characteristics,...
The purpose of this paper was to ascertain in some measure the direction teacher testing may take in the Pacific Area states other than Guam and Hawaii. Guam and Hawaii have installed teacher testing programs and have clearly established certification requirements that make it mandatory for teacher applicants to have baccalaureates. The other Pacific Area states have many teachers teaching without baccalaureates. The Pacific Area states include Polynesia (Hawaii and American Samoa), Micronesia...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Minimum Competency Testing,...
This study consisted of a poll of junior college administrators, responsible for the employment of their instructional staff, to determine if they felt the Doctor of Arts degree would satisfy the academic needs of the junior college instructor. A 17-item questionnaire was mailed to 107 public tax-supported junior colleges within the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools; 83% were returned in usable form. Findings indicated that, among the administrators polled, 62% held a doctor's...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Attitudes, Degrees (Academic), Doctoral Degrees, Teacher Background,...
This study discusses faculty attitudes toward collective bargaining, including collective negotiations, sanctions, and withholding of faculty services. The purpose was to determine whether faculty members' perceptions of their capacities for power and mobility were related to their expression of relatively favorable or unfavorable attitudes toward collective negotiations. Attention was given to possible relationships between selected biographical career variables and faculty attitudes toward...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Collective Bargaining, Faculty Organizations, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Background,...
The experience and identity of the writing teacher clearly impacts that teacher's pedagogy. Pedagogies are a result of many influences and forces, including conferences, training, articles and books read, but they are also formed from experiences as students, learners, and teachers. To acknowledge the experiential and personal influences on personal teaching styles might lead to understanding and valuing individual teaching styles. Before a pedagogy can be critiqued or revised, it needs to be...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Experience, Higher Education, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Background,...
This study documents the benefits of tutoring as a clinical experience for the prospective teacher. The program was developed to give the teacher candidates a perspective on the likelihood that they will encounter vast differences between their life experiences and those of their students. These differences may be racial, ethnic, and/or cultural. The major objective of the tutoring experience is to provide contextual understanding of the individual student. During the tutoring period, the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning, Intercultural Communication,...
An instrument of 55 items, "Teachers' Perceptions of Teaching and Educational Reform," was developed using factors and reform proposals emphasized in current literature. Using a stratified random sampling technique, 64 schools from the southeastern section of Georgia were selected for participation. Surveys were returned by 56 (87.5%) of the schools and a total of 1,436 of the surveys were completed by teachers in the participating schools. Of this total, 97 were social science...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Change, Educational Research, Social Studies, Statistical Surveys,...
A 10-page questionnaire was used to determine the characteristics of Kansas junior college personnel. The data collected were to provide a profile of the teachers and to be available in detail to anyone interested. The four categories of inquiry were: (1) biographical data on age, sex, marital status, residence, schooling, education and occupation of parents, etc.; (2) teaching experience such as kind and number of previous positions, early career pursuits, and out-of-state jobs; (3)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Faculty, Questionnaires, Surveys, Teacher Background, Teacher...
Participants in prior planning sessions selected problems encountered in teaching English to Navajo students as the specific theme to be stressed during the conference. Subsequently, 5 formal addresses were presented at the conference, w rkshop groups were formed and 6 workshops were conducted, and 2 panel discussions were held. The major foci of the formal addresses were teaching English as a foreign language, and planning for the education of Navajo children in the future. Among...
Topics: ERIC Archive, American Indians, Cross Cultural Training, English (Second Language), Second Language...
The study evaluated the effectiveness of an adaptation of the Behavior Rating Scale (BRS), a child observation form, as a screening device for identifying learning disabled children in the primary schools of Botswana. Children (N=620) in two different primary school grades (standards 5 and 7) and two different types of schools (Setswana Medium and English Medium) were evaluated. Scores of children identified by teachers as possibly learning disabled were compared to scores of non-identified...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Behavior Rating Scales, Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Education,...
Forty-six distributive education state supervisors and 49 teacher educators responded to a survey to determine the supply of distributive education teachers, sources of recruitment, and methods employed to recruit. Some of the findings were: (1) 82.2 percent of the state supervisors and 91.8 percent of the teacher educators indicated an inadequate supply of distributive education teachers, (2) A total of 3,097 additional teachers were estimated to be needed by school year 1970-71, (3) Sources...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Distributive Education, National Surveys, Questionnaires, Teacher Background, Teacher...
A survey was conducted during the spring and summer of 1973 to determine the media and academic backgrounds of people who are currently teaching such skills as writing, editing, photography, and layout in accredited journalism programs. Usable responses to a questionnaire sent to randomly selected faculty members of the Association for Education in Journalism showed that: teachers of skills courses tend to have considerable journalistic experience, especially with newspapers, with 47 percent...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Faculty, Courses, Editing, Higher Education, Journalism, Layout...
This study was conducted to show how a teacher's training affects his or her attitudes toward teaching. Twelve statements dealing with various aspects of education in relation to subject and student oriented instruction were distributed to 15 traditionally prepared teachers and 15 Teacher Corps prepared teachers. Each participant indicated in writing and verbally the extent of agreement or disagreement with the statement. Samples were stratified in order to determine patterns and areas of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conventional Instruction, Educational Research, Student Centered Curriculum, Teacher...
Based on a 54% response to a questionnaire sent to all accredited two-year colleges listed in the 1969 World Almanac, the following conclusions regarding economics education were made: (1) the mean number of economics courses offered is three; (2) the most commonly offered course is a "principles" course similar to that offered in four-year colleges; (3) 74% of the colleges require economics of some students, usually business majors; (4) 14% of two-year students take economics; (5)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Church Related Colleges, Course Evaluation, Economics, Instruction, Private Colleges,...
The problem was to compare regional high schools including grades 9 to 12, small high schools having the same grades, and other high schools having per-pupil cost comparable to regional high schools in terms of the following criteria: (a) per-pupil expenditures; (b) pupil-teacher ratios; (c) number of different preparations per teacher; (d) scope of course offerings in each major curricular field; (e) ages of teachers; (f) teacher salaries; (g) educational experience of teachers; (h)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Guidance Programs, Library Services, Program Costs, Regional Schools, Secondary...
This study is part of a long-range effort to identify the psychological processes in adults that influence how they relate to children and that play a role in determining what kinds of children they are likely to work with most effectively. Previous studies have suggested that a valuable source of information may lie in adults' recollections of their childhood selves and, further, that such data may prove useful in the process of selecting adults for work with children. The present research is...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adults, Autobiographies, Childhood Attitudes, Individual Characteristics, Teacher...
