An emerging technology, classroom communication systems (CCSs), has the potential to transform the way we teach science in large-lecture settings. CCSs can serve as catalysts for creating a more interactive, student-centered classroom in the lecture hall, thereby allowing students to become more actively involved in constructing and using…

This study was conducted to identify teaching styles that facilitate student progress on specific learning objectives. Initially, 15 step-wise multiple regression analyses were undertaken using the 44,448 classes in the IDEA database (IDEA center) for classes processed between August 1998 and August 2001, consisting of 1 analysis for each of the…

This proceedings of the 2003 Wilderness Education Association (WEA) conference contains 10 papers and presentation summaries on outdoor leadership, wilderness programs, and related training. Following a brief history of WEA, the entries are: (1) "Adventure Education and Rock 'n Roll: Sustaining the Revolution in Post-Communist Romania" (Dawn M.…

This paper describes a collaborative action research effort designed to investigate: whether teachers would be able to predetermine their dominant learning and teaching styles; whether teachers' dominant learning and teaching styles would be similar; whether teachers of differing levels or subjects would be concentrated in any one dominant…

The purpose of this research was to explore the usefulness of metaphor generation and analysis as a tool for reflection by prospective elementary teachers of science. An interpretive case study was conducted to investigate the changing beliefs of four prospective teachers about science learning and teaching. The main assertion that emerged from…

An examination of a nonverbally warm versus a nonverbally neutral teaching style on learning, question answering and question asking reveals that instructors who behave in a nonverbally warm style may increase learning and verbalness of Eskimo and white students in their classrooms. (Author/KM)

The author expounds the features of dialogue teaching, by which the teacher deepens his knowledge of the student through person-to-person contact. (PG)

An innovative teaching method called Proctorial, Auto-graded, Self-paced Study'' (PASS) was employed in an engineering college. The results are reported indicating that it has many advantages over the conventional lecture method of teaching. (PS)

Discussion of Teacher Behavior in a Modular-Flexible Scheduled School: A Comparative Study,'' Ph.D Dissertation by Owen Paul Halleeen, University of Minnesota, 1972. (CB)

An interview with two teachers, one from an open classroom and the other from a traditional one, in which teacher evaluation is varying learning settings is discussed. (SP)

This article describes the classrooms of four elementary school teachers; emphasis is placed on individual teaching styles. (BB)

A college English teacher reflects on changes in educational methodology. Please for a return to teaching with clarity, accuracy, and precision. (DS)

Teachers who are classified as humanistic'' were perceived by students as using different teaching styles than those classified as custodial.'' The humanistic'' teachers tended to be perceived as using techniques more compatible with the recommendations of the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study writers. (AL)

Author concludes that perhaps it is time in teacher education to stress intuition and the aesthetics of teaching. (Author/JB)