Classroom artifacts, physical objects produced by teachers or students for specific instructional purposes, have a special importance in science instruction. Article uses three examples of supervisory styles (directive, collaborative, and nondirective) to illustrate how a supervisor might approach the use of artifacts while assisting a science…

Authentic assessment in elementary school technology education is linked to a continuum of teacher behavior: nondirective, mediating, directive, and concurrent with teaching. It should be a two-way process between the students and the activity. (JOW)

Being a real teacher involves the refinement and development of a complex awareness on three levels. This is manifested in alterations to the structure of attention. Contains 49 references. (ASK)

Discusses the significance of the problem of sexual misconduct among teachers. Presents two rules of personal conduct that can keep education professionals out of trouble: be friendly but not familiar, and never touch a student. Discusses means of putting these rules into practice as music educators. (DSK)

Describes the Outreach Program that has attempted to provide teachers with sustained support through training and direct classroom assistance in an effort to develop a sense of self-efficacy with regard to desired teacher and student behaviors that are part of a standards-based learning experience. Contains 21 references. (Author/ASK)

Examined the effect of perceived problem-solving ability among teacher trainees (N=60) operationalized by the Problem Solving Inventory (PSI) and random feedback (success vs. failure) on participants' attributions. Results indicate a significant PSI x Feedback interaction for ability and effort but not for task difficulty and luck. (RJM)

Finds strong positive main effects for teacher immediacy and strong negative effects for teacher misbehavior on all three dimensions of credibility (competence, trustworthiness, and caring/goodwill). Finds, however, that with low teacher immediacy, both "nonmisbehavior" and misbehavior produced perceptions of low credibility; whereas…

Although educational teams can help reduce teachers' feelings of isolation and enhance instruction, ineffective leadership often dooms their efforts. This article describes four team leadership approaches: "strong-man,""transactor,""visionary hero," and "SuperLeadership." The last is superior, since it…

Interviews with 16 teachers and 10 children who had been abused in schools revealed a range of levels of awareness and disclosure as well as responses to disclosure of abuse. Difficulties for teachers in delineating acceptable and unacceptable behavior point to a need for improved guidelines and legislation. (Contains 39 references.) (SK)

Suggests that philosopher Donald Davidson's interpretative principle of charity can help explain why communication is impoverished or even impossible in classrooms governed by traditional, authoritarian practices that form a "pedagogy of severity." Notes that teachers should promote a "pedagogy of charity," which assumes that…

Examined 22 Head Start teachers' involvement in activity settings, their roles, and their talk during free play. Found that teachers were most often in the role of play enhancer/playmate and stage manager. Teachers spent most time in constructive and manipulative activity settings. Their talk focused most often on statements and questions…

Considers what it means to listen in the context of teaching, and what it means to teach in the context of listening. Explores the character of listening as it is lived in teaching by drawing from stories told during conversations among three teachers about particular students (SG)

Discusses five strategies teachers can use to help struggling students: teaming, hands-on activities, practical applications, minimal time spans, and enrichment. Suggests creativity and practicality are imperative if teachers wish to help "applied" students grow both academically and personally. (RS)

Reprints an article originally published in 1937. Suggests that conscientious teachers must lead their pupils to see that the democratic ideal must be the heritage of all. Notes that liberal teachers must be fair and must insist on the same rights in the classroom that they demand for themselves in society. (RS)

Looks at how gender shapes the way humans learn from biological and sociological perspectives. Indicates that teachers interact more frequently with males and that trainers should try to overcome gender bias. Suggests that discrimination persists in adult education. (JOW)