A group of children and a woman stand in front of a wood frame building. This is likely a group portrait of a school as there are over forty children of varying ages. While a few of the children wear shoes, many of them are barefoot. A number of...
Teachers; Students; Education; Classrooms; Children
A woman stands beside a large pad of paper, looking on as a boy works with the words on the pad. The woman appears to be teaching spelling or reading to a group of children; the words on the pad are separated into syllables. Two other children look...
First year teachers--In-service training; Teacher turnover; Teachers--Job satisfaction
Experts attribute the teacher shortage to an increase in population while others
cite the retirement of a critical mass of baby boomers who came into teaching in the mid
to late twentieth century. Other experts argue that the teaching shortage is...
Jasper Peters and an unidentified male student, or young instructor, look out a window of Marvin Hall. The young man may be John Henry Walker. Handwritten on bottom border: 487. Title supplied by cataloger.
Minnie Gibson, in the doorway, and a female student stand at the entrance to the girl's dormitory, Carnahan Hall. One of the earliest female faculty members, Minnie Leigh Gibson joined Oneida Baptist Institute in 1907. See ULPA 1982.01.115.p for...
Research literature acknowledges the importance of teacher leadership in school reform initiatives. The literature is replete with qualitative studies describing the experience of teacher leadership in its variety of enactments. The meager amount...
Special education teachers--Attitudes; Special education teachers--Job stress; Burn out (Psychology); Teacher turnover; Autistic children--Education
Students with autism require a variety of supports to be successful in classrooms. Because of this, special education teachers need additional training to address these needs along with balancing the demands of the rest of their caseload. This...
Teachers of children with disabilities--Attitudes; Teacher-student relationships; Developmentally disabled children--Education; Affective education
The First Step to Success early intervention program (Walker, 1998) is a
secondary prevention intervention that targets primary grade children with moderate or
emerging behavior disorders. While the effectiveness of the First Step to Success...
The goal of this study was to investigate the relationships between school climate, school culture, teacher efficacy, collective efficacy, teacher job satisfaction and intent to turnover in the context of year-round education (YRE) calendars. The...
Teacher-student relationships; Interaction analysis in education; Problem youth--Education (Secondary)
The interactions between teachers and students provide a venue for instructional delivery and ultimately student achievement in the school setting. However, not all students experience positive interactions with teachers in the typical classroom...
Autistic children--Education; Mainstreaming in education; Teachers--Attitudes; Inclusive education
The purpose of this research study was to examine the relationship between the
attitudes of public school teachers and the inclusion of students with autism in the general
education classroom highlighting individual teacher characteristics that...
Problem children--Education; Teacher-student relationships; Child psychotherapy--Residential treatment
This dissertation contributes to the existing body of research investigating teacher efficacy, collective teacher efficacy, academic efficacy, and teacher-student relationships within residential treatment centers (RTCs) for adolescents. While past...
Teachers of children with disabilities--Attitudes; Mainstreaming in education; Students with disabilities
This dissertation is an examination of general education teacher's attitudes toward the inclusion of students with special needs in their classroom and the variables that influence these attitudes. A theoretical framework for the examination of...
This dissertation is an exploratory study of teacher risk taking. The risk-taking literature in education and other types of organizations is lacking in studies exploring the concept of healthy risk taking and how that risk taking is related to...
Middle school teachers--Kentucky; Middle school students--Kentucky; Academic achievement; Teachers--Job satisfaction--Kentucky; School environment--Kentucky
This quantitative study focused on 760 Kentucky middle school teachers in 28 school districts across the state of Kentucky. The Pearson r was used to determine the relationship between the following variables identified in the study: (a) school...
Student counselors--Kentucky--Attitudes; Student counselors--Training of
This study addressed the administrative task of recruiting school counselors in the largest school district of Kentucky, a state undergoing systemic school reform. The participants (N = 553) were elementary (n = 162), middle (n = 113), and high (n...
Teachers--Job satisfaction--Kentucky--Louisville; Teacher turnover--Kentucky--Louisville; First year teachers--Kentucky--Louisville
This study addressed the job satisfaction of new teachers in Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS). in Jefferson County, Kentucky. The JCPS district is the 29th largest in the United Sates and serves over 98,000 students. Understanding what...
