Freshmen through senior physical education majors' observation and interpretation of a videotaped soccer skill lesson indicated that over time they tended to observe the lesson more congruently with program goals and reflect the targeted teaching skills in the current field experience. The quality and clarity of responses improved as the subjects…

Reports a research project on a Teaching Assistant (TA) training program. Indicates that the TAs and their students have many of the same expectations of what a college classroom should be. Engages TAs in classroom research to show them how to teach. (JK)

Examines the common assumption that teaching effectiveness is determined by the personal qualities of the teacher and his or her learned knowledge. Argues that teaching effectiveness results from social processes in which teachers interpret and adjust to the requirements of the job. Includes six suggestions for improving education based on this…

Describes a day spent by an American teacher visiting a Thai school with 200 students in one class. (NKA)

Contends that individual teachers have ultimate control over what content is taught in their classrooms. Reports a study of the factors which influenced the curriculum decision-making of 18 elementary teachers. (BSR)

Indicates the differences between preteachers' and experienced teachers' cognitive schemes for classroom management. Experienced teachers reported using more pro and antisocial strategies than did prospective teachers. Both relied on antisocial techniques for active misbehaviors and prosocial for passive. (JK)

Discusses what attributes the instructor of methods courses in English should possess. (HOD)

A New Jersey plan to turn people without education degrees into schoolteachers is discussed. Some New Jersey education officials are concerned that schools have hired relatively few of the new provisional teachers, and some are critical of the quality of preparation the teachers receive. (MLW)

Two teachers, one English, one American, from the International School of Brussels, Belgium, describe the benefits and drawbacks of teaching overseas, discussing the flexibility, the cultural advantages, and the professional drawbacks. (EL)

A typology is developed of the dimensions along which a teacher's contribution can be assessed and a pay plan projected that emphasizes each of these dimensions. Several issues cutting across various pay-reform proposals are discussed, notably the balance between rewarding veteran and novice teachers, and its effect on teacher recruitment. (RDN)

Provides a profile of Michigan high school biology, chemistry, and physics teachers for the 1980-81, 1981-82, and 1982-83 school years, including highest degree(s), major(s), minor(s), sex, years of teaching experience, type of certificate, and assignment(s). Also examines possible trends in the staffing of high school science courses in Michigan.…

An art teacher who went to Bella Bella, a remote island in British Columbia, to teach an arts methods course for the University of British Columbia's Native Indian Teacher Education Program describes her experiences and the course she taught. (RM)

This investigation presents information concerning the relationship of stability of teacher behavior to teacher effectiveness and teacher responsiveness to inservice training. (DMT)

Suggestions are given for teachers to operate an individualized mathematics program at the sixth-grade level. (MM)

Develops a theory of discipline that assumes that there are certain commonalities among disciplinary situations that transcend any specific discipline problem. (Author/RK)