Part of a series of instructor training modules on related subjects instruction for apprentices, this booklet deals with presenting information to apprentices. The first chapter consists of an outline of the nature and scope of the instructor training modules as well as a self-assessment pretest. Covered in the module are planning to present…

Elaborates on Mauritz Johnson's definition of curriculum as "a structured series of intended learning outcomes" and relates this to teaching science in a permissive classroom climate. (PEB)

Presents a number of typical incidents selected from the publication "Interactive Incidents from Classroom, School, and Community" which was recently released by the National Science Teachers Association and the Association for the Education of Teachers in Science. (JR)

This paper examines research on the kinds of classroom questioning skills where the type and sequence of questions teachers ask has a significant impact on student response and on the language used in responding. Some of the studies considered indicate that teachers frequently ask low-level questions with no logical sequence; that the majority of…

This paper explores the college classroom as a cybernetic system and the implications of such a conceptualization for college teaching. (MK)

Flanders' interaction analysis method is discussed with relation to teacher training. A modification of the analysis is outlined with reference to the coding procedure developed by Urbach. The original category system is modified to include relevant aspects of classroom interaction. (Text is in German.) (AM)

Third of five articles in a series, titled "The Elementary School: Focus on the Culturally Different.

Classroom studies indicate that turn-taking--when a teacher asks a question or assigns a reading turn, the child responds, and the teacher reinforces or corrects--is the format of most school lessons. The problem with this format is that it emphasizes pupil response without providing for teacher explanation and the other forms of substantive…

A study used children's definitions to explore the culture of the classroom from the perspective of the child. Definitions for school-related terms were elicited from first graders in two classrooms of a public elementary school in the Chicago metropolitan area. After having been acclimated to the presence of the researchers, the students were…

Noting Martin Buber's rejection of both the permissive (individualistic) and the authoritative models of education and his dislike of clear epistemologies or systematic pedagogies, this paper examines Buber's work as an organized philosophical underpinning for dialogue in the classroom. The paper details Buber's approach to education as an…

This series, designed for use in inservice teacher workshops, addresses the question, "How do children and teachers use language to get things done?" The transcribed classroom discourse presented and discussed in each volume illustrates functional language in a real context based on the videotaping of undoctored classroom events from…

This series, designed for use in inservice teacher workshops, addresses the question, "How do children and teachers use language to get things done?" The transcribed classroom discourse presented and discussed in each volume illustrates functional language in a real context based on the videotaping of undoctored classroom events from…