Suggests a need in the classroom for order but not repression, that the teacher has a specific role to fulfill but not that of autocrat, that learning involves work but also interest and relevance, and that student behavior sometimes needs to be modified but that spontaneity and freedom of expression are to be valued. (Author/RK)

In order to understand the emotional state that leads a young person to self-destruction, it is important to look at what is considered a normal adolescence. Lists four factors that explain why adolescence is a time of great depression, four myths associated with the reasons for suicide, some factors that create situations for which suicide is the…

The research findings of most studies on student behavior problems have shown that these behaviors can be reduced to four major clusters of interrelated characteristics--conduct disorder, personality disorder, inadequacy-immaturity and socialized delinquency. Discusses these behaviors and some research on behavior change. (Author/RK)

This paper describes a systems approach to instructional psychology which can be used by school counselors as a basis for diagnosis and remediation in the classroom. Interrelationships of the four components of a basic teaching model are emphasized. Selected aspects of each component, important for effective instruction, are discussed. (Author)

Adults viewed silent videotapes of high- and low-achieving children and estimated the level of understanding revealed by each child. Observers accurately differentiated between understanding and not understanding in spontaneous and deliberate conditions. In the spontaneous conditions, high achievers were perceived as understanding more than low…

Examines the interaction between the teacher and the student who is a discipline problem. Describes how a teacher can determine if he is contributing to classroom discipline problems by his teacher-learner interaction. (Author/RK)

It has been assumed that schools play a dramatic role in creating school crime. This paper, by using ethnographic data, demonstrates the inter-relationships among administrative styles, deterrence, commitment, and disruption. It appears that legitimacy of rules even within a school's bureaucracy needs to be developed through negotiating order with…

Lee Canter is an instructor on the extension faculty of California State University at Fullerton. He mixes pep talks and common sense with a course of behavior modification and body language designed to change teachers into "assertive" teachers. At the Bridge International School in Denver foreign students learn English and also how to…

Case studies can help cast light on how schools face the problems of discipline and low achievement, neither of which is created or can be the sole responsibility of the schools. An attempt is made to report on the experience and performance of a public senior high school in the area of discipline. (Author)

The availability of compact tape recorders and efficient and inexpensive photocopying methods has encouraged medical students to establish note-taking services for their classes in the preclinical years. This study shows that such services critically shape the experience not only of students but also faculty and institutions. (LBH)

This research attempts to develop methods which teachers can use now in dealing with disturbances in the classroom, and to investigate the efficiency of these methods in decreasing the disturbances in working conditions. Develops the idea that teachers should be able to use positive means in dealing with disruptive behavior by students. (Author/RK)

This study identifies specific nondrug alternatives most used to achieve a specific mood or state of consciousness alteration. Analysis showed social, physical, and risk-taking activities were used most frequently to achieve positive states and distracting activity, discussion with friend, and personal contemplation were used most frequently to…

The discriminant validity of the noxious codes of the Behavioral Coding System for the measurement of aggressive behavior in schools was investigated on a sample of aggressive and prosocial elementary school males. The codes were found to discriminate. (Author/JKS)

Compared black (N=614) and white (N=1,162) children on the Behavior Problem Checklist. Blacks were judged to have a greater frequency of behavior disorders than whites. A number of interactions of race with other variables were found, and their meanings are discussed. (Author)

The procedural due process principles of Goss v. Lopez do not apply in cases of "academic" dismissal rather than disciplinary dismissal. The difficulty in making this distinction, particularly at the elementary and secondary levels, undoubtedly will be the cause of much future litigation. (Author/IRT)