Before technical educators can develop pride and professional manner in their students, they themselves must be proud to be teachers of allied health professionals. A program is described in which behavioral techniques are both used and taught. (Author/AJ)

To be a competent teacher, the school environment must be organized to preserve a system of student behavior and group functioning which allows the teacher to select the activities in which the group will engage. This is often called "maintaining control" by teachers. Means of organizing the school context to affect student behavior are…

This report describes variables that differentiate the classrooms of more effective and less effective teachers. Teacher effectiveness is defined as the ability of second- and fifth-grade teachers to teach specially constructed reading and mathematics curriculum units over two weeks. Twenty more effective and twenty less effective teachers were…

This study attempts to analyze some aspects of open education by examining the effects of the teacher's authority style. This aspect of the structure of the school is examined in conjunction with certain status characteristics of the school population. The following variables are considered in the study: (1) community type; teacher race, sex,…

Perceived problems of elementary and secondary student teachers encountered during the student teaching sequence are measured and analyzed. In addition, perceptions of the adequacy of preservice training to meet these problems are elicited. Four hypotheses are tested in the investigation: (l) discipline would rank as the number one problem for all…

Most analyses of the effectiveness of educational systems or technologies report results in terms of the impact of educational resources on educational outputs, with virtually no attention to the decisions the student may make or the time the student takes to learn the course content. Focusing on the student as an important decision-maker leads to…

The selection includes speeches, reports, and occasional remarks made by the president of Grinnell College to various constituencies over a ten-year period, 1965-1975, a particularly busy and fretful time in higher education. The papers are gathered into categories: educational plans and philosophies; the state of the college; student life and…

This report summarizes the responses of principals of elementary schools participating in the I/D/E/A Change Program to a survey questionnaire that focuses on program implementation and selected efforts that may be associated with Individually Guided Education (IGE). Survey data are presented for the school years 1973-74, 1974-75, 1975-76, and…

This research investigates the rules by which three Montessori teachers -- a head teacher and two student teachers -- attribute causes of student and teacher behavior within and outside their classrooms. Availability information is given in SO 504 073. (Author/RM)

Adapted from a speech delivered on Charter Day at the University of California.

The organizational characteristics of schools can be extremely important influences on student behavior, and student behavior problems can be reduced through organizational change. Organizations can be held to consist of objectives, processes for achieving those objectives, and structures for carrying out those processes. The term…

Administrators can use the strategies described in this article to encourage the development of self-discipline in their students without using punishments or training students to be conformists. Teachers who need help maintaining student discipline can be identified in several ways, including through analysis of disciplinary referrals. Class…

The classroom behaviors of 129 Barbadian children (77 boys and 52 girls) ages 5 to 11 years, who had suffered from moderate to severe protein-energy malnutrition in the first year of life were compared with children with no history of malnutrition. Data were gathered from questionnaires administered to teachers who were unaware of the children's…

Camps offer a unique opportunity to inform parents of the psychological workings of their child through information based on a large repertoire of situations. Camps can be interpreted to parents as a better way to observe, record, and report how their children: (1) reacted to "on-hand contact"; (2) accepted duties and responsibility; (3)…