Thirteen college-prepared teachers performed significantly higher on a teaching performance test and were rated significantly higher by teacher educators than fifteen industry-prepared teachers. An analysis of teaching behaviors revealed college-prepared teachers used more indirective teaching behaviors. (Editor/JT)

A pupil observational system for use in the secondary classroom is provided. Results of the instruments use with five classes are discussed. (CP)

"Teacher Rights" and all their ancillary problems are a recent phenomenon for school boards and administrators. Court cases to define and support these new notions of teacher freedoms are escalating rapidly. Discusses the role of teachers in a changing society and six important trends that seem to be emerging from more than 100 court cases…

Outlines the aims of foreign language classroom assessment and suggests a model to help fulfill the subjective needs, wishes, and interests of students studying foreign languages in high schools. (CB)

Presents a hyperbolic scenario in which a ruthless writing teacher overlooks her young students' progress in other areas of writing and admonishes them because their penmanship is poor. (AEW)

A study of two teachers of deaf children demonstrated that eye gaze is an effective mechanism for regulating turn-taking in the classroom. Eye gaze signals were used to invite individual and group response, initiate action, communicate with a particular student, ask questions, and handle distractions or interruptions. (Author/CB)

A classroom-based study of communicative language practices of English as a second language teachers revealed the persistence of non-communicative patterns of interaction, while a follow-up study demonstrated that it was possible for teachers to foster more communicative language use. (Author/CB)

A tongue-in-cheek list of faculty behaviors for improving student evaluations suggests that faculty manipulation of student comments is both common and a threat to quality social work education. Reduced emphasis on student ratings is strongly advocated. (Author/MSE)

A study of ninth-graders' attitudes toward teachers' classroom discipline techniques found that commonly used techniques cause student anxiety and disrupt student work, indicating a need for teacher behavior changes. (MSE)

Reports on a study in which 61 science supervisors were asked to identify their most effective and least effective teachers. Differences were found regarding gender, quantity of National Science Foundation workshop experiences, and certain elected in-service experiences. (TW)

Reexamines category of teacher talk commonly called teacher disapproval. Presents expanded framework for examining behaviors in this category. Identifies and describes nine variations of teacher disapproval based on analysis of transcripts of interactions involving fourth, fifth, and sixth grade classroom Anglo, Hispanic, and Conservative Jewish…

Instead of employing a wide variety of teaching methods in the classroom, teachers should use only a few compatible methods. To choose these methods, teachers must clarify their own beliefs about basic elements of education and must assess the appropriateness and effectiveness of various methods in particular settings. (IW)

A classroom technique is described that is used by one college teacher in a course on the sociology of human sexuality. Specific acting techniques and design are used to turn the class into a performance where the delivery of facts is unified with the facts themselves. (MSE)

Nineteen pairs of center and noncenter children enrolled in a university-based, half-day model infant-toddler program were followed for eight months to see if "child-centered" features of the physical and social environment were carried over by parents to the home. Findings support an ecological model of substantial cross-influence…