Teaching modalities and in-service training activities showing promise of increasing student learning and teaching effectiveness were identified by 25 community/junior college instructors who participated in a six-week institute for training in Flanders Interaction Analysis and questioning strategies. The Delphi process, surveys, and campus…

TO DETERMINE WHAT EFFECTS A STUDENT TEACHER'S COURSE WORK HAS ON HIS ACTUAL CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR, 22 STUDENT TEACHERS WERE GIVEN 90 HOURS OF OBSERVATION AND BEHAVIOR TRAINING, WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON THE FLANDERS SYSTEM OF INTERACTION ANALYSIS. A CONTROL GROUP OF 22 STUDENTS WAS GIVEN TRAINING IN LEARNING THEORY. THE FLANDERS SYSTEM WAS USED TO…

Twenty-five instructors from 11 different community colleges and 13 different disciplines participated in a six week institute at Texas A&M University, geared to improving teaching in junior and community colleges. The participants had an average of 5.08 years of experience in college level teaching, and all had at least a master's degree.…

A system for observing and coding verbal interchanges between the teacher and his pupils, at all instructional levels, is described in this study. The system, widely known as the Flanders System of Interaction Analysis, is reviewed in terms of its effect on the classroom behavior of teachers and on student attitudes. The application of the…