If our schools are to become socially functional, it is imperative that we address ourselves to the basic theme that teaching must be in harmony with childlike perceptions and biases. (Author/WY)

Makes a plea for nore effective teaching methods which are based on behavioral objective, are appropriate to the subject matter and student needs, and include periodic evaluation of the students. (SB)

Striving to be a good teacher "is a worthy goal that is obtainable only through devotion, dedication, and desire. Reprinted from "Aurora News, a quarterly publication of Aurora College. (Author)

Presents the procedures, results, and conclusions of a study designed to investigate and analyze the teaching procedures of two groups of elementary science teachers. Observations of science lessons taught by 15 SCIS-trained teachers and 15 non-SCIS-trained teachers revealed significant differences in the number of "science experiences …

This article presents a review of the experimental studies that have been conducted to determine the effectiveness of discovery learning as compared to expository learning in science and mathematics. The limitations of these studies are noted and some suggestions for future research are proposed by the author, who is an assistant professor of…

A common criticism of student ratings of instruction is that they are affected by the personal style of the instructor rather than an instructor's ability to convey instructional material. It was found that instructor expressiveness had a substanial impact on student ratings but a small impact on student achievement. (Author/PN)

Reports on the development of a form for evaluating student teachers that is designed to encourage them to develop their own teaching styles. Contains a copy of the form. (FL)

A student during McLuhan's early days of teaching at Saint Louis University analyzes the qualities that made him a superb and influential teacher. Recalls that his teaching of literature conveyed a sense of its moral and social relevance and the historicity of the present. (PD)

Performed a correlation analysis on ratings provided for principals on the Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire and scores earned by teachers of each principal on the Educational Attitudes Inventory. Results suggested a relationship between the style of leadership exhibited by a principal and the classroom orientation of his teachers. (Author)

Proposes a paradigm, built around such parameters as teacher-preferences for teaching strategies that are teacher-centered with cognitive objectives and strategies that are student-centered with affective objectives, predicting the quantity-quality aspects of "openness." By trial and error, teachers develop managerial skills compatible with…

Explores teachers' weaknesses that encourage discipline problems within the classroom: teaching style, personality problems, overreacting, friendship (student/teacher relationships), mass punishment, ignoring cries for help, reward centers, false promise of punishment, and "breaking the student's spirit" approach. Provides checklist for teachers…

Using latent class and variance component analysis models, the authors reexamined data from the "Teaching Styles and Pupil Progress" report (Bennett, 1976). Their analysis indicated three distinguishable but overlapping teaching styles, two of which correspond closely to the "formal" and "informal" classes designated…

Reports reasoning skills of graduate nutrition students assessed on the basis of their performance on Piagetian-styled tests. Teaching strategies suggested by Piagetian theory resulted in significant gains in the use of more effective reasoning skills where as the traditional lecture-discussion format did not. Nutrition educational and training…

This article looks at the contributions to educational history, local history, and history instruction made by William Heard Kilpatrick, who taught history at Teachers College, Columbia University, throughout the first half of the twentieth century. (SJL)