Describes two experiments designed to test the effects of self-management strategies on journal writing by beginning college writers. (HOD)

Educational leadership entails developing teacher behaviors that support student learning. This article outlines ways of achieving this goal through positive reinforcement. (Author/WD)

Compares the efficacy of three categories of theoretical explanations that have been used to explain delinquent and deviant adolescent behavior. Available from the Northwestern University School of Law, 357 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60611; sc $6.50. (Author/IRT)

Sixteen junior high students, half with high and half with low scores on peer-relations self-concept and self-esteem scales were videotaped during music class. During noninstructional free time, the low scorers touched themselves more frequently than did the high scorers. No other significant behavioral differences were found. (Author/SJL)

School personnel are a very important group influencing the hemophiliac's early life and should be trained to observe and treat bleeding episodes. (JD)

Style of behavior, or the manner in which meaning is transmitted, is a cultural element. Children learn cultural communication systems by participating in them. (JD)

An overview of studies on the role of talk in student learning. (RL)

The study of pedagogy in cross-cultural contexts is encouraged and examples of some existing studies and their methodologies are highlighted. (JMF)

The needs of the unstable student are summarized, followed by a brief discussion of these needs to enable teachers to analyze causes and effects of this behavior. Instructional approaches are suggested for the classroom teacher to stabilize student responses. (Author/MLF)

Questionnaires querying student behavior and attitudes toward feminism were distributed to students enrolled in undergraduate education courses. Survey results indicated that even though female students were generally more sympathetic toward alternative role models for women, both sexes tended to display many of the same sex-role stereotypes.…

Ways of dealing with requests or demands for the teacher's attention from outside the teacher group activity are discussed. (MJB)

Compared populations of Arts and Sciences students who had determined their majors and those who had not. The determined group was more likely to remain in school and to achieve greater academic success than the undetermined group. More women tended to have declared majors than did men. (Author)

Basic management of disruptive classroom behavior is a necessary aspect of classroom control. Three basic techniques are planned: ignoring, in which inappropriate behavior is not reinforced; signal interference, in which nonverbal signals on the part of the teacher affect behavior change; and proximity control, in which the teacher's physical…

A four-step process for the development of a system for the management of classroom behavior is presented. (PHR)

A classroom observation scale designed to be used in the observation and recording of an individual student's behavior and the teacher's response to the behavior is presented. (Author/PHR)