Presents a model which stresses the importance of teacher support for four levels of early childhood education--curiosity, exploration, play, and creativity. Provides definitions, outlines behavioral evidence for these levels, gives appropriate teacher responses for each level, and discusses theoretical support for the model's importance in…

Describes instructional use of a microcomputer version of the WORLD2 global population-ecology simulation. Reactions of students and instructors are discussed and a WORLD2 simulation assignment is appended. The BASIC version used by the author runs on Apple II, DOS 3.3, with 80 column board. (MBR)

The issue of teachers' interpretion of children's language and ideas is explored through observations of sharing time in a second-grade classroom. Problems associated with teacher evaluation of student competence in classrooms where children come from various ethnic and linguistic backgrounds are discussed. (DF)

A foreign language teacher who spent a month studying and traveling in China talks about the emotional effect of seeing the Great Wall and her experience in climbing a section. (RM)

Explains how a national press association review of a school publication is beneficial even if a low score is given and provides a brief overview of associations. (CRH)

Describes attempts to validate an instrument developed in order to classify a teacher's theoretical orientation to reading instruction and sets forth procedures for using it in educational settings. (HOD)

Describes a computer program developed to take the tedium out of writing comments on student essays. (AEA)

Sentence writing behavior was established in eight mildy retarded special class elementary-level children through a procedure that provided word lists and teacher praise for self-selecting and self-locating words from the lists and imposed a cost (fewer sweets) for responses dependent on teacher modeling. (Author)

There is a special three-way balance in responding to student writing: one must be compassionate, have a vision for improvement, and be capable of confronting and cajoling students to help them maximize the possibilities of revision. This book presents some of the best examples of how writing teachers approach the delicate equilibrium of student…

This paper discusses a study which examined the manifestation of racial epistemology in the teaching and learning of multicultural education in three university classrooms. In this research, ethnographic data were collected and interpreted to understand preservice teachers' divergent responses toward multicultural education classrooms. Based on…

This article reveals how junior high and middle school principals assess their job preparation and actual job requirements. The findings may be surprising. (Editor)

The rationale for this investigation was derived in part from the increasing number of teacher walk-outs and strikes during the past five years which have involved conspicuous numbers of female teachers. A broad range of questions were asked to identify those variables which might lead to role dysfunctionalism or which constitute career…

White males were most skillful in teacher interaction and black males were least skillful of the 4 race-sex groups in 3 elementary schools in the South. (FF)

The purposes of this study were to determine the extent to which NCME members agreed with selected issues in educational measurement as presented on a questionnaire and to determine the degree of agreement among NCME members on the selected issues. (Author)