Despite advances in the development and implementation of school-based interventions, aggression in American schools remains a significant problem for educators. The present study examines the influence of teacher preparation on responses to classroom aggression. A sample of 121 teachers employed in 11 public schools across Southwest Virginia…

This paper provides a metareview of how e-learning content is currently being produced and embedded in the learning practice in further education, work-based learning and community learning contexts. Based upon this metareview, the paper has identified four categories of content production used: (1) learner-authored content, (2)…

The present work discusses, firstly, different dimensions that characterize the use of analogies in the classroom. Foremost among these are the pupil's level of activity and the degree of monitoring carried out by the teacher. Secondly, the routines declared by a group of science teachers (n = 73), when they described their classroom activity in…

The purpose of this study was to explore the potential of annotation and communication software (eFuzion) developed for the improvement of students' learning and to determine the effectiveness of the software. eFuzion is designed to be useful in a significantly large classroom by allowing instructors and teaching assistants to provide immediate…

This paper summarizes a study designed to examine teachers' perceptions concerning possible employment termination and whether these perceptions differ according to primary teaching assignment. A random sample of 504 elementary, middle/junior high, and high school teachers was selected from 21 school districts in a southern state. Teachers were…

Frequently curriculum implementation procedures consist of little more than teachers receiving descriptions of subject matter, definitions of new or technical terminology, and/or outlines detailing the surface steps of an instructional process. This case study analysis of how two high school teachers adapted some new curriculum features into their…

The Italic Handwriting Series developed for public schools in Portland, Oregon, emphasizes a continuous flow in handwriting development and instruction and is designed to allow a more natural transition from print to cursive. Italic writing was first implemented during 1983-84 at the kindergarten through fourth-grade levels, with an additional…

To determine whether consensus existed among teachers about the complexity of common classroom materials, a survey was administered to 66 pre-service and in-service kindergarten and prekindergarten teachers. Participants were asked to rate 14 common classroom materials as simple, complex, or super-complex. Simple materials have one obvious part,…

Experienced elementary (K-6) teachers nominated by their principals as either outstanding or average at dealing with problem students described their general strategies for coping with hostile-aggressive students and told how they would handle incidents depicted in two vignettes portraying aggression at school. Transcripts of these responses were…

This paper describes a study which had a twofold purpose. The first was to determine which methods of influence were used by teachers to control pupils who exhibited various types of disruptive misbehavior. The second purpose of this study was to determine why teachers chose those specific methods of control. Influence was considered from the…

Follow-up telephone interviews with 165 recent graduates of the University of Texas at Austin were used as the final stage of a research project on Personality, Teacher Education and Teaching Behavior (PTETB). A standard procedure was followed with all subjects, and permission to tape-record the interviews was granted in all but one instance. The…

The teacher's role in open educational settings is the central focus of this study. The perceptions, understandings, and beliefs of 66 teachers (K-4, associated with open education programs for at least 2 years) regarding basic issues of implementing an open approach were examined through in-depth professional interviews. Factors that teachers…

The relationship of the hierarchy of teacher concerns to classroom verbal behavior was investigated. Participants were 66 elementary school teachers with 3 to 8 years teaching experience and 26 beginning teachers in two large public school systems in the southeast. The Teacher Concerns Statement (TCS) was administered to all 92 subjects. Four…

This study describes an effort to determine what teachers talk about during their team meetings and to characterize the types of contributions teachers make to their decision-making tasks. Eleven teams of volunteer teachers, used in a previous study (Molner, 1971 SP 005 510), supplied material for audio tapes. Teams met approximately once a week,…

Results of a survey of 2,219 regular and 332 resource/special education elementary teachers in New South Wales, Australia, revealed that teachers' attitudes toward the integration of individual disabled children reflect lack of confidence both in their own instructional skills and in the quality of support personnel provided to them. (Author/JW)