Most research supports the teaching of language arts in an integrated program. This topical bibliography and commentary addresses: how integrated language arts is carried out by school administrations; how integrated language arts is carried out by the teacher; whether integrated instruction helps improve learning performance in reading and…

Article considered how New Jersey teachers are involved both as producers and consumers of successful educational programs. (Author/RK)

Presented the results of a two day task force on teacher education. (RK)

Research findings on attitudes of teachers toward media following participation in an audiovisual education course. (HB)

Discusses the educational importance of the kinds of questions asked by teachers and reports a study indicating that teacher training procedures can improve the quality of teachers' questions so that they require cognitive functioning beyond factual recall. (DP)

Thirty minutes of discrimination training was shown to be highly effective in changing teaching behavior while microteaching, that is, practicing teaching twice, reviewing the lesson on videotape, and receiving feedback, did not result in significant overall changes in teaching behavior. (Author)

The results of this study indicate that teachers more adequately understood the characteristics and needs of disadvantaged children, but that deeply held beliefs were probably not challenged nor permanently changed. (DM)

In this study a group of disturbed teachers whose credentials were revoked were compared on credential application forms, health records and transcripts to a group of unrevoked teachers. The revoked group were older and it appears from the results of the study did not enter the field of teaching as their first choice career. (JC)

The major thesis of the study held that if teachers are given opportunities to examine, discuss, and model certain behaviors that have been judged to be effective classroom behaviors, then the children they teach will regard themselves more positively. The findings of the study upheld this proposition. (Author)

The purpose of this paper is to question whether adequate consultation can take place when issues and problems are considered only at the level of the overt behavior of the problem child.'' (Author)

The findings of this study suggest that teachers are in need of didactic and experiential training to increase the probability of success along the critical dimensions of affective education as it relates to the relationship process. At present, it appears that we are lacking accountable behavior in these critically important areas that affect the…

This study was designed to evaluate the efficiency of a theoritical planning model in modifying the teaching behavior of elementary school interns. The data suggests the model is a useful tool in modifying teaching behavior and may have the potential to bridge the gap beween what the professors preach and have their students teach. (Author)

Of all the facets of a school faculty's make-up, one of the most important is orientation toward objectives. This is the faculty attitude that creates an educational atmosphere in which goals are formulated, developed, and brought to fruition. (Author)