Analyzed were behaviors of secondary school science student teachers and their cooperating teachers. Objectives were (1) to provide data on teacher behavior by describing aspects of teacher-pupil verbal interaction, (2) to identify non-random changes in verbal behaviors of the student teacher, (3) to relate these changes to the verbal behaviors of…

THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVES OF THIS STUDY WERE--(1) TO IDENTIFY NON-RANDOM CHANGE IN THE VERBAL PATTERNS OF STUDENT TEACHERS OF SECONDARY SCIENCE WHO WERE TRAINED IN THE FLANDERS SYSTEM OF INTERACTION ANALYSIS, (2) TO RELATE THESE CHANGES TO THE VERBAL PATTERNS EXHIBITED BY THE COOPERATING TEACHERS INVOLVED, AND (3) TO COMPARE THE RESULTS WITH THOSE OF…