This article analyzed the reaction of teachers to an innovation by considering the demands made on teachers in their roles as subject specialist, classroom director, professional, and employee. It is in the role of employee that the teacher makes decisions about involvement with the implementer and the innovation. (Author/MT)

Faculty feedback is an effective method for administrators to assess their performance and work toward leadership improvement. Guidelines for developing and using self-styled faculty feedback instruments are provided. (MD)

A social studies teacher, who spent a month studying and traveling in China, relates, as told to her, the impact that the Cultural Revolution had on two Chinese--a female graduate student in her mid-twenties and a middle-aged college professor. (RM)

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

Twelve case study incidents with young children are presented with the responses illicited from workshop participants in order to illustrate that for a humane teacher there are not right answers but many possible alternatives. (MS)

Summarizes the responses to the Canadian student poetry contest, called Pandora and sponsored by the Canadian Council of Teachers of English, and presents 27 of the 100 winning poems selected from the more than 50,000 submitted. (TO)

Results illustrate that teachers view the psychologist as a specialist in emotional problems whose major diagnostic procedure is testing, who recommends treatment but does little himself. Statistical analysis indicates that both the factors of teaching experience and contact with psychologists differentiate between teachers' perceptions of the…

Vito Perrone, Dean of the School of Education at North Dakota University, advocates that teachers reestablish themselves as students of teaching, becoming researchers in their own classrooms by writing about what they observe. Maintains that journal writing makes teachers more observant and questioning of long-standing practices. (NEC)

A study investigated the influences of the nature of the research, the offer of an honorarium, and the time required to participate in the research on teacher interest in participating in classroom research. Results indicated that significantly greater interest was expressed by teachers when a small honorarium was offered. (JN)

Discusses guidelines (developed by the Oregon State University Early Childhood Sex Education Project) for developing teacher-parent cooperation in providing sex education to young children. The guidelines concern how to talk about body differences and body functions; how to deal with masturbation, sex play and obscene language; and how to involve…

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

Not overreacting to disruptive behavior can be an effective way of maintaining classroom discipline. (JD)

Suggests that the effects of teachers giving feedback to students during oral reading can be quite significant and that such feedback should be carefully analyzed for perceived meaning and purpose as well as for results. (TJ)

Gives examples of disconcerting questions asked by young children, and emphasizes the need for adults to try to provide satisfactory answers. (CM)