Presentation given at a seminar on "Teaching Excellence at the Annual Industrial Arts Spring Conference (31st, Oswego, N.Y.)

Evidence suggests that effective teachers are also effective leaders. Because leaders and teachers perform similar duties, clues for preparing better teachers can be obtained by analyzing the characteristics of effective leadership. (SK)

A brief survey of 277 Minnesota secondary technology education teachers elicited their perceptions of teacher effectiveness characteristics. Results showed that teacher effectiveness varies little across subject areas. Commonly cited characteristics are clarity, variability, enthusiasm, task orientation, patience, organization, and preparation.…

There is a need for the spirit of freedom in the teaching profession since in some respects the teacher's fulfillment is dependent upon the freedom that the teacher is willing and able to exercise in his/her profession. Teaching freedom means the opportunity to develop the potential for teaching excellence according to the teacher's individuality…

Peer and subordinate criticism directed at the beginning industrial arts teacher ultimately leads to teacher failure. Skinner's theory of operant conditioning is used as an analogy to explain how the beginning teacher is conditioned to the norms of teaching, resulting in the loss of his enthusiam and idealism. (DS)

Provides basic guidelines for the structural recruitment of a continuing supply of quality industrial arts teachers. (JOW)

The authors take the reader on a journey into the modern industrial education classroom as an exercise in awareness and offers questions so that teacher may evaluate themselves. (Author)

Personality and demographic data from two groups of industrial arts teachers, American Industrial Arts Association teacher-of-the-year recipients and a randomly selected group, were statistically analyzed and compared. The results show many differences; the author recommends further personality profile research for industrial arts teachers. (MF)

Since industrial arts classes frequently include many students with special needs, teacher educators must prepare future industrial arts teachers for working with these students. (BP)

Observational data were collected on 10 industrial education student teachers in laboratory settings. Successful classroom management practices were judged as those in which a maximum amount of time is spent with students actively working on the tasks set by teacher. (SK)

This is the first of several articles to highlight outstanding teachers. It presents a profile of Grier Yoder, graphic arts teacher and chairman of the vocational education department at Hunter Huss High School, Gastonia, North Carolina. Included in the profile are his development of facilities and students, and his many awards. (MF)

Three types of instructional guidelines (verbal, nonverbal, and demonstration) were tested to determine the type of instructional strategy that would result in junior and senior high school students' acquiring the largest amount of abstract learning related to a technical concept in industrial arts. Findings differed for the two age groups.…