Results are presented from 339 respondents to a poll surveying teacher opinions of basal readers. Questions deal with strengths and weaknesses of basal readers, use of workbooks, school district requirements, and teacher's manuals. Results are presented.

Argues that students and teachers should be matched according to similar learning and teaching styles in order to facilitate students' learning. (SRT)

Describes the inservice teacher training program developed by the Lennox School District for first- and second-year teachers and experienced teachers new to the district. It combines training workshops with a continuing teacher/coach relationship emphasizing positive reinforcement. (MD)

This study extends earlier work on parental teaching style and examines effects of parental intrusiveness on a subsequent task. Analysis of audio recordings of 22 Caucasian middle-class parent-child dyads audiotaped over a two-week period while dyads were learning aspects of LOGO computer programing showed that children of directive parents…

Discusses the appropriateness of the process method for the business writer. Describes how the method might be taught in a business communication course. (JD)

Compositions of 10 high-knowledge and 10 low-knowledge fourth-grade students taught by either academically-oriented or cognitive developmentally-oriented teachers were analyzed in terms of four types of propositions they contained to assess the relative influence of writers' prior knowledge and teachers' classroom lesson structure on students'…

Provides ideas for sharpening the focus of teacher-moderated discussions in history classes. Asserts that students must be presented with a question that elicits solution of a problem ("Why did Lincoln wait so long before issuing the Emancipation Proclamation?") rather than factual recall ("What is the Emancipation Proclamation?"). Includes model…

Examines the relationship that might exist between knowledge structure and learning and teaching styles. Discussion includes the Psycho-Epistemic Profile, which measures the process of knowing, and a study of relationships between teachers' and students' psycho-epistemic styles and preferred subject matter, and differences between psycho-epistemic…

Reviews David Kolb's Experiential Learning Model, stressing its potential for developing or redesigning curricula for adult learners to include learning modes focusing on concrete experience, active experimentation, reflective observation, and abstract conceptualization. Offers a checklist for assessing which modes are accommodated by an…

Study results suggest that student achievement and attitudes toward economics at the college level might be improved by a better match between the teaching style of instructors and the learning style of students. (Author/RM)

Analyzes teaching as remembered by graduate students and concludes that an essential ingredient in effective education is effective teaching which is firm, fair, challenging, and compassionate and is based on a confidence between student and teacher rooted in trust and faith. Also cites examples of bad teaching practices. (RDN)

Hearing impaired students who are mainstreamed often encounter problems in dealing with the usual flow of classroom communication. To examine the effect of action zone phenomenon, six mainstreamed classes were observed and coded for location of student-teacher interactions. Results and discussion are presented. (Author/DF)

Reviews the theories which assert the necessity for prolonged intensive listening without expectations of production for some time in language teaching. Asserts that comprehension and production are indissoluble partners in the two-way process of communicative interaction and that teacher-directed and dominated classrooms are not interactive…

Research on teaching is beginning to uncover what teachers do to create conditions that foster learning. Some ideas about teacher behavior that have been linked to positive learning outcomes are explored. Five teaching styles that can be linked to research findings are presented. (DF)

Upper elementary and high school students completed an instrument that measured student attitudes toward social studies and indicated the presence of factors found to contribute to positive student attitudes toward social studies in previous research. It was concluded that teaching style did not have a meaningful impact on student attitudes.…