A study was designed to identify and examine the relationship between selected characteristics of teacher participation in curriculum planning activities and reported acts of implementation. Subjects were 100 elementary teachers (K-8) who had participated in curriculum planning activities in 27 schools in nine school districts in suburban Chicago.…

For a report on a two-year Peace Corps project designed to implement educational television (ETV) in Colombia, the persuasive and defense arousal effects of several kinds of appeals that might be used to persuade Colombian teachers to adopt new teaching practices were investigated. Subjects, who were 100 Colombian public primary school teachers…

This publication brings together seven papers by writers who have been extensively involved in the preparation and use of protocol materials in teacher education. These papers are: (a) Protocol Materials: Historical Notes on Protocols Development, by Doris V. Gunderson; (b) The Protocol Materials Movement: An Exemplar of Efforts To Wed Theory and…

A self-observation training program was developed for teachers. After the program was pretested with a group of teaching interns, the effects of self-observation training on selected teacher and student behaviors were assessed with two experienced elementary teachers. Changes in teacher contingent praise, positive nonverbal responses, and negative…

High-inference measures of teacher process variables were taken on a sample of 31 teachers selected because of their consistency in producing student learning gains on the Metropolitan Achievement Test and were correlated with student outcome measures. Correlations showing the strength of relationships with success in producing student gains are…

This document focuses on the behavior influence process as it is related to modeling and role playing applied in classroom settings. The topics discussed are divided into six sections, with an "Introduction" and "A Final Word.""What Is Modeling?" describes some basic conclusions about modeling reached by behavioral and learning researchers. "How…

This document discusses: a) background for the development of a system of teacher training; b) protocols, including the parameters and characteristics of protocols, protocols in other fields and their relationship to protocols in education; c) the concept of a concept, including attributes and operational definitions of concepts and types of…

This document discusses the problems and prospects of developing an open classroom based on an actual experience. The document is divided into sections of preservice concerns and in-service development. The former treats such topics as open education readings; school visitations, needed facilities; and planning, organizing, implementing, and…

Facilitation of learning depends upon a synergistic relationship among administrators, instructors, and learners, each of whom responds to educational technology in one or more of the following alternative ways: (1) he is ignorant of technology; (2) he ignores technology; (3) he acknowledges the existence of technology but condemns it as…

A classroom observation procedure for recording and quantifying complex, sequential interactions between subject and teacher or peers has been developed. Two instruments, used in tandem, test hypotheses concerning the consistency of the subject's interactions. The Sequential Record, which is used to record observation, is analyzed for repetitious…

This study identified two groups of teachers with different control styles and examined changes in their behavior during the year. Seventeen K-2 teachers who varied in control style were observed at the beginning of school, in late October, and during the winter. Four observation instruments, a rating device, and a classroom description were used.…

A study attempted to detect any significant relationships between student teachers' perceptions of their roles as teachers, their needs and attitudes, their observed behavior in the classroom setting, and their students' perceptions of the classroom climate. Student teachers (N=39) were administered the Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory (MTAI),…

This study found that high dissatisfaction with intrinsic and extrinsic job factors and high risk taking propensity were related to a teacher's decision to strike. The study tested two modules which predicted walk-out and non walk-out behavior. The conceptual model postulated that the teacher's decision to walk out was influenced by degree of…

Seven procedures are analyzed to discover their effectiveness in changing teachers' priming or reinforcement of peer interactions or verbal behaviors in preschool children. The procedures were applied to 23 teachers at the laboratory preschool of the University of Kansas, and training of two Head Start teachers was done in their home settings. The…

This paper criticizes the work of Barak Rosenshine on the effects of teachers on student achievement. The author cautions against accepting Rosenshine's generalizations on teaching techniques. He makes the specific criticisms that Rosenshine a) did not operationally define student achievement, b) did not assess the validity of the student…