Discusses the shortcomings of teacher preparation in the area of questioning. Proposes using two contrasting paradigms for developing and analyzing questions for use with different texts and for different purposes. (FL)

Comments on the lack of training and burnout of high school journalism teachers and argues for a humanities option for journalism studies. (HOD)

Suggesting that, given the right tools and encouragement to do so, all children will write, this book describes the technique of "written conversation" in which two partners write back and forth to each other. This coproduced book serves as both a means for communication and expression and as a source of data about the child's knowledge of the…

This paper presents a discussion examining personal revelations discovered through peer critique and teacher response. It begins by discussing the issue of dealing with alien terms and specialized jargon in academic papers, through the example of one instructor's different treatment of two student papers based on the instructor's familiarity with…

Teachers who use a dialogic approach to teaching and responding to student writing view their comments as a conversation with the students. They view writing in relation to the larger context of writing--the type of writing, the audience and purpose, and the conventions of the writer's community. When responding to student writing, a teacher's…

Despite legal mandates that educators report their suspicions concerning abuse and neglect of their students, professionals fail to report their suspicions. In the present research, all schools in South Australia were surveyed to explore educators' experiences with mandatory notification training and school reporting practices. The purpose was to…

Author offered some random reflections and convictions as food for thought on issues related to the language skills development of elementary school children. (Author/RK)

The present study was designed to determine the effectiveness of a short (20 hours) training program in human relations skills for elementary student teachers. (Author)

Article examines some of the personal constraints in the teaching and learning process. (Author/RK)

The verbal behavior of 16 female preschool teachers was videotaped during play in dyads with a nonverbal socially unresponsive autistic four-year-old boy and his nonhandicapped fraternal twin brother. Language to the autistic child was simpler, more concrete, and more often accompanied by gestures than language to his brother. (Author/SEW)

Presents a model for analyzing teachers' time allocation procedures in collective instruction along with a qualitative analysis of 10 elementary school teachers' implementations of short sequences of mastery learning. Sequences illustrate possible ways teachers adjust conditions that are formulated in the model. (Author/MP)

Examined the relationship of teacher life position, teacher dogmatism, perceived consultant facilitativeness, years of teacher teaching experience and number of consultations per year to the consultation outcomes of teacher satisfaction, teacher strength, and problem resolution. The consultant's perceived facilitativeness was the main predictor of…

Describes a feasibility study which investigated the effects of introducing microcomputers in primary school classrooms with teachers having no previous experience with their use. A 10-item bibliography is included. (CHC)

Contains a check list to aid teachers in evaluating software used in computer-assisted instruction on microcomputers. The evaluation form contains three sections: program description, program evaluation, and overall evaluation. A brief description of a software evaluation program in use at the Granite School District in Utah is included. (JJD)

Examined the relationships among academic, sociometric, and personality variables of 242 children who were selected by their teachers as having behavior problems, learning problems, learning and behavior problems, or no problems. Results were generally supportive of teachers' ability to distinguish between children with problems and children…