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Peer reviewedWalmsley, John B. – TESOL Quarterly, 1982
Proposes concept of the Teacher Value System as explanation for the phenomenon of students in foreign language classroom producing nonsensical utterances. Argues that these statements are product of particular patterns of teacher behavior. Believes this explanation affords insight into some prerequisites for communicative teaching. (Author/BK)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Student Reaction
Peer reviewedMorris, Samuel – Clearing House, 1983
Argues that the teacher selection process should begin at the college level with aptitude testing and personal interviews by a faculty committee. Calls upon administrators to borrow from the hiring practices of the business world in choosing teachers. (FL)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Behavior Patterns, Secondary Education, Teacher Behavior
Peer reviewedWilcox, Ray T. – Clearing House, 1986
Provides a composite view of the combination of teacher qualities and actions that make a teacher effective. (HOD)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Educational Quality, Interpersonal Competence, Secondary Education
Swanchak, John; Campbell, James R. – 1980
Teacher effectiveness research has used changing criteria over the years in assessing and evaluating teacher performance and its effect on student achievement. Early researchers accepted the idea that there should be a relationship between the personality or traits of the teacher and student outcomes. Lists of characteristics of superior teachers…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education
Samuelson, Janet – 1986
A major problem in many composition classes is the unwillingness of the instructor to relinquish control in the classroom. Because students are excluded from having control in the classroom and control over their own writing, they become disenchanted with the processes of learning and discovery and the power those processes create. Students should…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Classroom Environment, Prewriting, Revision (Written Composition)
Download full textFriedrich, Gustav W. – 1986
Instructional communication research may be examined from the perspective of teacher effectiveness research, based on three dominant 20th-century philosophical traditions: logical empiricism, interpretive theories, and critical theory. Since at least 1896, scholars have used empirical research methodology (largely "logical empiricism," modeled…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Classroom Communication, Classroom Observation Techniques, Communication Research
Waimon, Morton D., Ed.; Kanzler, Eileen, Ed. – 1984
Under consideration in this conference was the idea that prospective teachers should be assessed on the ability to perform teaching skills relative to each other and that overall patterns of skill performance, not separate skills, should be used as the organizing focus of teacher certification. James Raths, in "Teacher Traits Revisited:…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Higher Education, Personality Traits, Preservice Teacher Education
