The supervisor-student teacher relationship is analyzed, and a systematic approach to their interaction is outlined consisting of the following elements: (a) observation, (b) provision of objective observational data, (c) bilateral determination of what will be focused on, and (d) objective feedback used as a basis for modifying teaching behavior…

This study investigated the preparation of (330) teachers of English in the public secondary schools of North Dakota; their assignments; selected variables of employment; method, time, and extent of professional upgrading; aspect of English in which teachers and students had difficulty in the teaching-learning process; and the major reasons given…

The Teacher-Innovator model from Teachers College, Columbia University, trains the teacher for four roles: institution-builder, interactive teacher, innovator, and scholar. Teachers acquire an understanding of these roles during preservice and inservice experiences in four methodologies: inquiry and feedback groups--democratically organized groups…

This book is a description of a summer institute of the Technology for Children Project which was designed to help teachers combine technological activities with regular academic lessons for children in grades K-6. Included are: (1) the three institute goals which were to orient elementary classroom teachers, to develop guidelines for…

This study was concerned with determining the effects of participation in a reading practicum on the attitude of elementary education students. After four weeks of intensive review of word attack and comprehension skills, each student went into a public school, diagnosed the reading problems of an individual child, and planned a program of…

The purposes of this study were to determine the difference between selected groups of fourth grade pupils instructed by proficient teachers of phonics and those instructed by non-proficient teachers, and to determine the difference in pupils' achievement when students are divided into groups based on the number of years of teaching experience and…

The education of teachers is presently accomplished in a haphazard and fragmented manner. Students are generally required to take course and field experiences which are individually pertinent, but courses lack unification and are divorced from the realities of schools and children, and the field work all too often lacks the theoretical support and…

Investigated were three questions related to the relationship between a science teacher's attitude regarding the use of a newer science program, in this instance the Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS): (1) Could the Projective Tests of Attitudes, originally designed for fifth-grade students, be modified for use with adults? (2) Is there a…

This study is based on the evaluation of the Methods Experience Project (MEP) in the College of Education at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. Specifically, the study identifies and describes the nature and direction of possible changes in selected preservice teacher behavior which occurred during the project and explores the…

Reported is a study on effects of early classroom teaching experience upon the attitudes and performance of teacher candidates from a student group primarily composed of science majors or minors. The subjects were paired mainly on their choice of a credential or noncredential program. One of each pair was randomly assigned to the experimental…

This document describes the Secondary Teacher Education Sequence at Nasson College, Springvale, Maine. Following a brief introduction, the organization of the program is outlined, with emphasis on the following objectives: a) an understanding of the underlying theories of successful teaching and learning; b) observation of the results of the…

The relationship between expenditures for public elementary and secondary education and the factors related to these expenditures in Nevada were investigated in this study. The major components of the public education problem were listed as follows: the high proportion of tax revenue spent on education, the inadequacy of present methods of…

This is a report of the centennial conference of the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Included are details of centennial activities, topics of discussions, the highlights of a speech by Karl Massanari on performance-based teacher education, and highlights of discussions, even down to transcripts of group discussions. Topics and problems covered in…

This paper describes the method used by Tracz and Burtnyk for the estimation of future salary schedules in the Ontario secondary school system. The application of the algorithm to the Ontario secondary school system predicts a possible breakdown in the fixed step salary schedule at about 1980. This situation results primarily because of the…

This paper investigated the consulting role of the elementary school counselor. A six-week training program was instituted which allows teachers to examine their own classroom behaviors through observing and analyzing video-tapes. An evaluation of the program impact on the pupil population indicated significant and positive mean gains in self…