This article states that a study should be undertaken focusing on the ways that teachers justify their classroom actions. (RC)

Evidence suggests that teacher self-concept has an effect upon the development of student self-concept in two of the four dimensions tested. (DMT)

The keys to controlling behavior problems are the teacher's attitude in the classroom and the teacher's nurturing of responsible students. (IRT)

This study was planned to replicate and extend at a fifth grade level an earlier study by Brophy and Good at the first grade level. One purpose was to test the hypothesis that classes taught by teachers who showed evidence of expectation effects would show polarization over time, with differences between high and low expectation students gradually…

In order for culturally disadvantaged children to expand their language skills, the classroom teacher must show a positive attitude toward the students and their language.

Routes by which the responsive teacher can create opportunities for increased pupil initiative by organizing instruction in particular ways and by using particular patterns of verbal communication are explored, emphasizing the use of learning contracts. (Author/KM)

A study by Yanouzas and Sanders shows that positive feedback works sometimes and with some students. Such feedback, however, should be personalized and should not be automatic, i.e., either unwarranted or inexplicitly related to the student's work. (GC)

One teacher's bittersweet account of the last day of school before summer vacation. (JT)

The author suggests a positive type punishment for a sixth grade class. (MF)

The activities and functions of teaching and learning are viewed in terms of the flexible roles of the individuals engaged in these activities, and the positive aspects of friendship in the teacher-student relationship are explored. (JMF)

The focus of a study (a follow-up to work by Rosenthal and others which has indicated that teacher expectancies are fulfilled in student performance) was the kind of teacher behavior which might eventuate following the experimental manipulation of an expectancy which could affect the performance of students. Subjects were female undergraduate…

A teacher's ability and skill in estimating student states of mind provides essential information for deciding what and how to teach. (JD)

The LEAST approach to discipline involves a range of different strategies where the teacher uses the least amount of guidance and control necessary. The teacher can discipline by leaving things alone, ending action indirectly, attending more fully, spelling out directions, and tracking student progress. (DF)

Article describes the author's teaching experience at a free school in Aspen, Colorado, and her questions and reservations" about the American system. (SP)

Reports findings of the magazine's survey of teachers' and administrators' attitudes toward their roles, toward children, and toward teaching and learning materials. (SW)