The author, Deputy Head of Chalk Dell Infant School in Hertford, England, reviews research on the effects of class size and analyzes her own experience with a class of 33 and a class of 23 students. (Editor/SJL)

Contributors discuss (1) a modified version of individualized instruction in the writing classroom, (2) tutoring, and (3) the virtues of short student teacher conferences. (FL)

Discusses how open education arose in the United States, what its relations are to the society around it, and what it has to offer to the American scene by examining past attempts to institute it in two other countries, noting that the two examples each present graphic examples of the interrelationship between education and politics. (Author/JM)

This report presents the findings of a 17-month project whose aim was to analyze the complexity of language use in the classroom through the examination of one classroom event or key episode type: the "service-like event." This term covers those situations during periods of individualized instruction in which a child who is not working with the…

Effects of a category system for social organization in the classroom on teachers' abilities to adopt a more flexible role are investigated. (GW)

Presents some of the findings of the ORACLE research program (Observational Research and Classroom Learning Evaluation), a detailed observational study of teacher-student interaction, teaching styles, and management methods within a sample of primary classrooms. (Editor/SJL)

Twenty-eight third grade teachers were observed by a team from the Research and Development Center for Teacher Education at the University of Texas in order to identify discipline and teaching strategies most conducive to the establishment of a successful student-teacher relationship. This package is the result. Ideas and suggestions designed to…

The influence on learning of classroom climate in Indian schools is discussed, with attention directed toward such factors as teacher-student relationships, discussion methods, teaching style, peer relationships, and general psychological atmosphere. (LBH)

Presented here are two models that can be used to solve distribution problems, such as assigning teachers to students, teachers to courses, or special students to schools. The models, the assignment model and the transportation model, are termed evaluation models under a definition of evaluation that delineates its function as that of serving…

Recounts how observation of children who were just beginning to write convinced a teacher that very young children can write, and thus changed the way she taught. (JL)

Two sessions of a kindergarten show and tell (spaced 18 days apart) were observed to compare the participant structure and the content of this shared time. Participant structure was examined in terms of turn taking, spatial arrangement, and teacher management of the event. Content was analyzed in terms of topic and cognitive level. The changes in…

Tackles the vexed question of mathematics teaching in unstreamed, mixed ability, elementary mathematics classes. (Editor/RK)

Describes the structural characteristics of instructinal tasks and their influence on the types of control teachers exercise. Attempts to detail the relationships between task organization and leadership behavior in the classroom setting. (Author/RK)

Part 1 of a continued article. (RS)