Suggestions are offered for faculty development and evaluation activities that can aid teachers' understanding and growth. Teachers can benefit from classroom observation feedback from other teachers who have been trained to appreciate the different kinds of cognitive processes used in the classroom. Observing teachers can record the pattern of…

Every speech community has a baby talk register (BT) of phonological, grammatical, and lexical features regarded as primarily appropriate for addressing young children and also for other displaced or extended uses. Much BT is analyzable as derived from normal adult speech (AS) by such simplifying processes as reduction, substitution, assimilation,…

In this paper, several issues related to the problem of transfer of training are set forth. The technique of frame analysis, developed by Erving Goffman, is presented as a way of bringing coherence to the formulation of problems related to transfer of training. Key concepts in Goffman's argument are explained, showing how those concepts pertain to…

The first year of a three-year longitudinal study of the English language development of 175 French-speaking elementary and secondary school students in Quebec, Canada, is described. The major study goals are: to obtain precise longitudinal information on ESL development; to describe aspects of classroom interaction, including language used by the…

Reading and social studies instruction in 39 third- through sixth-grade classrooms in central Illinois was observed in a study designed to determine whether elementary school classrooms provide comprehension instruction. Among the findings were that practically no comprehension instruction was seen but that comprehension assessment, usually…

This collection of 11 articles focuses on integrating handicapped and nonhandicapped children in preschool programs. Article 1 presents arguments for preschool integration. Article 2 discusses research on peer interaction and mixed-age socialization. Article 3 advocates a behavior analysis and operant conditioning approach to studying and…

Strategies for encouraging positive interaction among adults are suggested. The objective is to help teachers and other adults who work with children to interact in more meaningful ways with other adults including teachers, parents, school volunteers, classroom visitors, and community members. Strategies are presented in five topical areas: 1)…

AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO DESCRIBE THE VARIOUS ELEMENTS OF THE ELEMENTARY CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT (GRADES K-6) WHICH AFFECT INTERACTIONS BETWEEN TEACHERS AND THEIR PUPILS. MEASUREMENTS OF INTERACTION OCCURRENCES WERE GATHERED WITH RESPECT TO (1) CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES, (2) TEACHING STYLES AND PUPIL RESPONSES, (3) SENSORY EMPHASES, AND (4) USES OF…

This study examines the hypothesis that the lack of parental approval of the child characterizes child-abusing families. As part of a larger study of the coping styles of such families, a variety of verbal and non-verbal behaviors in parent-child interactions was examined. Subjects were 80 mother-child pairs from among four groups of comparable…

A one-year project to explore the use of children's language served as a basis for staff development through the North Dakota Study Group on Evaluation. Children's conversations among themselves were observed and recorded within the classroom setting, and the content of the observations were used for planning curriculum and assessing children's…

Skills training, personal-emotional development, and cognitive development are areas of importance in counselor training and education. Emotion, defined as the counselor's experiencing a strong feeling accompanied by physiological activity and the interruption, however momentary, of the counselor's ongoing cognition, is a critical factor in…

In any successful conversation, a speaker must select both what is said and how it is said on the basis of various estimates of the listener's abilities, knowledge and interests. Most research on linguistic input to children has focused on the tendency of speakers to simplify their speech for the younger listener. Little attention has been paid to…

Demonstrating and testing Conant's recommendation that teacher competence should determine certification, this four-phase study from 1964-68 developed and field-tested procedures for evaluating teacher competence and for determining how evaluation is affected by the beliefs of student teachers and observer-judges. Following the Phase I orientation…

Use of the combination of a wireless microphone, FM receiver, and stereophonic tape recorder to get a full, clear, permanent record of classroom interaction is discussed. A description of the equipment and its operation, including the simultaneous use of two or more sound tracks and of the uses of this technique is provided. Also mentioned are…

In a 2 1/2-year study of the application of interaction analysis (a method of classroom observation) to preservice teacher education, approximately 40 secondary student teachers were involved in an experiment during each of 3 semesters. A 2 by 2 factorial design made it possible to test the influence of 2 independent variables (student teacher…