Response to questions about discussion in adult classes directed to tutors indicated that good discussion promotes clarification and understanding, is futuristically oriented, and lively. Limits of useful discussion, potential of discussion approach for different subjects, and the psychological value of discussion for students also are discussed.…

Four high school English teachers and their students participated in a study of the relationship between students' responses to literature and their teacher's preferred way of response, stated objectives, and style of teaching. Teachers responded to three short stories; students responded to three short stories as a pretest and to three more as a…

A needs assessment effort was undertaken by a local school system in response to a state of Iowa mandate to aid in the development of long-range responses to program needs. All teachers of the Grinnell Community School District were asked to respond to the 50-item questionnaire "Instructional Assessment Instrument" (included in the document). Part…

The study's thesis is that teachers evolve responses to all levels of their occupational experience--ideological, organizational, and interpersonal--in relative isolation. (AUTHOR/NQ)

This book is a sample of what actually happens when the professional teaching poet sits down with the student poem. It allows the reader to observe the poets in their roles as teachers. The collection of student workshop poems and the teachers' essays about the poems--their analysis, specific criticisms, teaching techniques and procedures--are…

Teacher interventions in the spontaneous arguments of seven preschoolers 3 to 5 years of age were analyzed. Twenty hours of data were audiotaped over a 3-month period in a small, church-affiliated private school while children were involved in free play and classroom activities. Interactions that might be taken as arguments were first transcribed…

Five subject groups (adults and 11-, 9-, 7-, and 5-year-olds) were given affective reactions by a teacher, such as anger and pity, and asked to infer the teacher's causal attributions regarding why a student failed, such as low ability of lack of effort. There were systematic linkages between the following affect-attribution pairings:…

THIS RESEARCH EXAMINES THE DEGREE OF CONGRUENCE WHICH EXISTS BETWEEN COUNSELOR AND TEACHER PERCEPTIONS OF GROUP COUNSELING. THIRTY COUNSELING GROUPS COMPOSED OF TEACHERS, SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS, SCHOOL COUNSELORS, SPEECH THERAPISTS, AND NURSES WERE FORMED, UTILIZING ALL INDIVIDUALS OTHER THAN TEACHERS AS GROUP LEADERS. TWO SERIES OF GROUP COUNSELING…

Two groups of teachers testing with two different informal reading inventories were asked to give explanations for the miscomprehensions of two of their students (selected because of difficulty with comprehension unrelated to word recognition). Teacher explanations reflected diversity in description with the reader's lack of knowledge of key…

This report presents the findings of a 17-month project whose aim was to analyze the complexity of language use in the classroom through the examination of one classroom event or key episode type: the "service-like event." This term covers those situations during periods of individualized instruction in which a child who is not working with the…

Elementary school teachers and teachers in training responded to a questionnaire related to their experiences with stress situations in the lives of their students. The responses reflected the teachers' awareness of stress in the children's lives, what resources in the school-family system addressed these areas, their own preparation for…

This paper is a summative review of responses received from teachers who participated in Teacher Corps projects during 1975-1976. The survey sought to determine involvement by teachers in Teacher Corps training, planning, evaluation, work-related activities, network activities, and in decision-making about training events. In addition, teachers…

Sixty-four undergraduate teacher education majors enrolled at the University of Illinois were subjects in this study to determine the effect of various types of student stimuli on teacher response quality as measured by a five point scale for the measurement of empathic understanding developed by Carkhuff. More specifically, the study investigated…