With the development of track and field, people pay more and more attention to the quality of classroom teaching of track and field technology, and the evaluation of teaching quality plays a key role in it. In today's educational reform, teaching evaluation plays an important role as an important method to test teachers' teaching and students'…

This paper explores the role that technology can play in engaging pre-service teachers with the iterative, "messy" nature of model-based inquiry. Over the course of 5 weeks, 11 pre-service teachers worked in groups to construct models of diffusion using a computational animation and simulation toolkit, and designed lesson plans for the…

The purpose of this research is to provide insight on how to improve current classroom observation practices in order to meet the needs of teachers, promote professional growth, and develop effective supervision practices. This study built upon previous research which identified four key components of a classroom observation process that promotes…

This paper approaches the task of defining basic teaching skills by identifying essential preactive skills. Piaget's model of cognitive development was used to determine the general goal of teacher training in preactive skills, to identify the three basic kinds of preactive skills necessary for teachers to learn, and to suggest the kinds of…

Protocol materials are defined as records of human behavior in either (1) unaffected or (2) selected or simulated situations. In the first definition, instruction is centered on the results of an analysis of the situation. In the second, theoretical elements provide the basis for selecting or simulating the situation. In either case, the protocol…

First- and second-grade teachers were assigned to one of four conditions representing variations in consultation where they were required to teach a hypothetical child to add. Results suggested that behavioral consultation with task analysis was associated with significantly more teaching success than was control, medical model, and behavioral…

This 3-month investigation of changes in teaching and learning behaviors as microcomputers and computer literacy are integrated into the curriculum involved nine primary teachers (Mahopac Central School District, New York) in grades 1 to 3, who had received training in the use of microcomputers and in Logo. Each teacher implemented the same…

The purpose of this study was to state several desired teacher behaviors relative to the development of cognitive skills in young children and to determine the extent to which those behaviors could be achieved. The study involved 16 students in a graduate course, all of whom were currently or had been teachers. Each graduate student recorded a…

This study examined whether selected protocol materials in classroom management, used in inservice courses, would bring about long-term significant changes in teachers' classroom performance. Fifteen teachers participated in the study by taking an inservice course on classroom management and discipline. Two modules of classroom management…

The theory of "reasoned action" is applied to the teaching-learning process. This theory asserts that people use the information available to them in a reasonable manner to arrive at their decisions and that a person's behavior follows logically and systematically from whatever information he has available. To illustrate application of the theory…

The research reported on here was conducted to evaluate the initial introduction of innovative classroom management techniques in selected classes of four elementary schools. The evaluation phase was conducted during the 1970-71 school year following a series of summer inservice workshops on instructional objectives, learning modules, and…

Research is reported on the cognitive mediational paradigm which postulates that teachers influence students' learning by causing them to think and behave in particular ways during teaching. Four studies are reported. The first describes five teachers and their students and explores, in classroom lessons, the cognitive processes students used in…

Eleven middle school teachers' planning and classroom activities for the first day of the school year were examined through interviews, written lesson plans, and classroom observations. The purpose was to identify factors in planning and to identify relationships among planning and classroom management on the first day and throughout the first 8…

Causal modeling was applied to data collected in a naturalistic setting in an attempt to validate a conceptual model of teaching. These data included supervisory ratings of the variables: specifying performance objectives, diagnosing learners, selecting instructional strategies, and interacting with learners collected on 82 student teachers.…

The effectiveness of horizontal evaluation for student teachers and their supervisors was explored through a qualitative analysis of three case studies. For the case studies, two of the supervising teachers were university-based, while the third was a secondary school teacher with no prior experience in supervising student teachers. The aim of the…