Nine New Zealand secondary schools participated in the OtagoNet project, using videoconferencing technologies to deliver courses to multiple sites. This paper reports findings from a study conducted between 2001 and 2004 to evaluate the effectiveness of OtagoNet. It was found that videoconferencing technology had a significant impact on pedagogy…

Administrators need to know how to analyze learning styles in order to assist or support teachers' efforts to suit various teaching styles to various learning styles. This article offers concise descriptions of how to determine students' learning attributes, as well as suggestions of how to capitalize on this knowledge. (Editor)

The meaning of discovery learning or discovery method of teaching and the goals one might wish to achieve by using this method are discussed. (Author/DEP)

An attempt was made to change the beliefs and instructional behaviour of 23 prospective teachers in accord with John Dewey's philosophy of experimentalism. Results indicate that there was significant change in their beliefs as well as in their classroom teaching behaviour. (Author)

A six item open-ended questionnaire was developed and administered to teachers of 255 students in self-contained classes for the learning disabled in an effort to examine pupil progress and corresponding teaching methods. Comparison with previous teacher reports was used to describe pupils' academic progress in reading, mathematics, and spelling.…

This study investigated the effects of personality and cognitive style preferences on preferred teaching styles. Preservice teachers completed the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the Educational Cognitive Style Inventory, and the Learning Styles Inventory. Personality types, especially thinking/feeling, significantly predicted the importance of…

This study compares the effects of command, task, and individual program styles of teaching as they affect specific skills in alley soccer, a game knowledge test on alley soccer, and personal and social adjustment. A battery of skills tests, a game knowledge test on alley soccer, and the California Test of Personality were given to 221…

"The Capital Kid" is a cowboy persona used by the author when she teaches capitalization skills. Her teaching style and the games used are described. (SJL)

Investigated the relationship between applied behavioral training and reinforcement preferences of classroom teachers. Data obtained from the Positive Reinforcement Observation Schedule, a paired comparison task, indicated minimal differential reinforcement preferences for classroom teachers with no training, limited training, or extensive…

Styles are hypothetical constructs that help explain the teaching-learning process. Ten learning styles and six teaching styles are suggested. (Author)

There are many effective styles of instruction; and every teacher should be skilled in at least one, and preferably in several. (Author/MLF)

Provides a questionnaire with which English teachers can determine whether their instructional techniques are artistic, mechanical, or somewhere between these two extremes. (DD)

Reports on a study of the relationship between the perceptual learning style and teaching style of 138 junior college educators. Indicates that the instructors tended to teach the way they preferred to learn. Discusses implications for practice. (DMM)

To enhance the quality of learning among children, physical educators have the responsibility of challenging students to develop their higher order thinking skills. A dominating style of teaching may be in conflict with asking students to think. (MT)

Effective teachers have classes with a life and spirit of their own, a quality that grabs students. The author calls this prehensive teaching, from the Latin word "prehension," meaning to seize, grasp, apprehend by the senses. Ways to restore the prehensive nature of teaching are suggested. (MT)