The primary objective was to determine whether untrained undergraduate students could become effective as behavior modification consultants to teachers. Students from different undergraduate majors were given 10 weeks of guided experiences in interviewing and program designing. This was followed by field experiences involving actual consultation…

This study was based on the hypothesis that involvement in the dialogue of a lesson may increase students' opportunities to understand the concepts being discussed and may enlarge the teacher's opportunities to diagnose and respond to students' learning problems. Sixty teachers from the Stanford University Secondary Teacher Education Program…

This study examines the relationship between organizational demands and secondary school teachers' behavior. Teachers develop various techniques to compensate for the dictates of the organization; survival techniques are ways to tolerate the organization without leaving it. This study was carried out in two New England secondary schools in a…

It is a maxim in decision making that individuals who are affected by decisions should partake in making these decisions. The purpose of this paper is to examine practices in decision making in the field of curriculum in light of this maxim. (Author)

A teacher's ability and skill in estimating student states of mind provides essential information for deciding what and how to teach. (JD)

A 1973 survey of teachers' and administrators' attitudes toward collective negotiations in Lutheran secondary schools is reported. (GW)

A study which defines some easily measurable syntactic and semantic cues within student essays that predict and perhaps determine readers' responses. (DD)

This paper evaluates Hatton's critique of Grant and Sleeter's (1985) view of teacher work. Teachers have power, it is argued, and choose how willing they are to respond to students of particular racial and social backgrounds. (MT)

Describes the use of journals in a graduate curriculum class, intended to lend a professional focus while encouraging the writers to clarify their understandings and relate their learning to their personal and professional lives. (SR)

The frequency of interactions with teachers and peers in two groups of preschool children (nine mildly/moderately handicapped, nine nonhandicapped) were observed. For both, positive temperament patterns increased interactions with peers and, for nonhandicapped, also increased child-teacher interactions. Teachers interacted more with those…

Describes the exuberance with which one teacher approached her first years in the profession. Claims that, after 14 years of teaching, she still has both the desire to open young minds to new ideas and a love of literature. Claims that many curricula today do not devote enough time to literature. (JD)

Uses resources from the ERIC system to show teachers strategies for making teacher commentary count in writing evaluation and to discuss the characteristics of effective writing evaluations. (EL)

Argues that many problems encountered by low achieving students are generated in the classroom and that remedies should be sought in that setting. Offers two general approaches that teachers can use to increase feelings of inclusion and the likelihood of success for such students: creating a participation-conducive environment and providing…

Previous studies have indicated that a response-sensitive presentation was more effective than a random response-insensitive presentation. This study examined whether these findings could be generalized to a regular classroom environment. Implications of the results are discussed. (Author/MT)