For teachers, demonstrating that the classroom is a safe environment for all students, and that respect is expected at all times, is vital. For these two things to occur, open lines of communication between the teacher and students are key. While preparing lesson plans as a first year graduate teaching assistant in composition, an instructor…

This paper describes a course for education majors, Educational Inquiry, in which students completed action research investigations in their public school classrooms. The primary responsibility of designing, implementing, and sharing study results belonged to the college students rather than their cooperating teachers. Action research based on new…

This study was undertaken to consider answers for the following questions: (1) What meanings do reform-oriented prospective science teachers attach to their beliefs, intentions, and actions as they begin to interact in schools? (2) How do those meanings reflexively re-inform the prospective teachers' beliefs, intentions, and actions in science…

This paper focuses on the use of a group action research approach to help student teachers develop strategies to improve the grade point average of at-risk students. Teaching interventions such as group work and group and individual tutoring were compared to teaching strategies already used in the field. Results indicated an improvement in the…

The relationship between a skills and humanistic-custodialistic orientation to instruction and the change in this relationship during a student teaching experience were investigated. Two instruments, one measuring skills orientation and the other measuring humanism-custodialism (Pupil Control Ideology), were given to a group of Social Studies…

Research results show that the mechanics of corrective reading are learned equally well via direct contact with children or videotape recordings. Research did not measure subjects' affective responses, but the researcher noted that students who had direct contact with children were more enthusiastic. (HMD)

The authors' purpose in presenting this paper was to propose a rationale on the importance of developing and using behavioral objectives to improve student teaching experiences. (Author/RK)

The principal purpose of this article is to examine only a part of the teacher education program and to report on one departure from the traditional program that offers potential for significant qualitative improvement in the product of such programs. (Author)

The experiment was designed to test the hypotheses that instruction in techniques of programmed learning (a) transfers to the classroom-teaching situation, and (b) raises the level of teaching performance of student-teachers, irrespective of the age-group of children taught. (Author)

The present study was designed to determine the effectiveness of a short (20 hours) training program in human relations skills for elementary student teachers. (Author)

Teacher education was modified through an Innovative Program fostered by the University of Hawaii, whose staff, participating teachers, and student interns gathered at a summer workshop to implement the program. (RK)

Summarizes the author's doctoral research at Northern Illinois University in 1971. (Editor)

The prejudices and problems encountered while doing student teaching with A- and C-tracked high schoolers are discussed. (MM)

Reviews research related to science teacher education which suggests that specific verbal and non-verbal instructional skills can be developed by providing positive models of desired behavior, varying the amount of practice teaching during the training, providing specific feedback on limited behaviors, and modifying training according to trainee…