Presents a speech Harry S Truman made to a teachers' meeting in 1957. The speech concerns the influence of school on children and the need for discipline. (IRT)

The relationship between preactive planning and teacher control of the classroom environment is examined, and various modes of activity, instructional, management, and executive planning routines are discussed. (LH)

The results of a three-year study designed to identify sets of teaching skills necessary to meet the demands of a fourth-grade classroom environment are discussed. (LH)

Outlines some of the pressures board members can be under during a teacher strike. (IRT)

Describes study of lesson planning based on the thinking processes of elementary teachers. The study focuses on how teachers gather, organize, interpret, and evaluate information to be taught. (KC)

Teachers introduced to six skills through concept-based training showed greater mastery of probing and informing skills than did a control group. (Editor)

Asserting that teacher attention is often overlooked as a positive intervention strategy, this article presents a general overview of teacher attention and its effectiveness in changing behavior. Practical suggestions for effective teacher approval are described, as is a principle called "pairing" which may be used for social reinforcement. (JC)

Reports on a large number of research studies into the "organizational climate" ("personality" or "ethos") of schools in several countries. (Editor)

Described are ways in which behavior measurement techniques can be applied in grading psychology students. Teachers are encouraged to employ the same precision, order, and impartiality in evaluating students that they use in scholarly research. (Author/DB)

Reviews research which suggests a long standing and continued reluctance by teachers to utilize freedoms available within the public examination system and examines the case of the "Special Syllabus" option, a provision originally designed to increase the involvement of school-teachers in the work of public examination assessment. (Author/RK)

Discusses the teacher as a health-care role model and identifies some specific examples of significant behaviors. (Author/RK)

Discusses eight categories of teacher weaknesses that contribute to classroom discipline problems, as identified by 6O junior high and high school teachers who participated in a series of seminars on discipline. (JG)

Examined ways in which department heads and subject coordinators of large first-year subjects experience the leadership of teaching. Explored empirical relations between coordinators' conceptions of leadership and teachers' perceptions of leadership, and between teachers' perceptions of coordinators' leadership and teachers' approaches to…

Suggests that if those who know most about classrooms are to have any voice in what happens in them, then a teacher's union will have to be an indispensable partner in that process. Argues that teachers need to stop avoiding community contacts and need to aid unions in their efforts to educate the public. (RS)

Explores an American high school chemistry teacher's perspective on the meaning of student questions that originate from curiosity and engagement with the subject matter. Uses ethnographic analysis of a teacher's reflective processes and decision making approach and suggests that questions hold contradictory meaning as powerful, conflicting…