Explores three important critical perspectives taken toward student resistance: that of the "traditional" teacher/administrator, that of the student, and that of the writing teacher. Shows them as interactive elements of a system enriched by variety. Suggests that compositionists should see their pedagogical actions for what they are: sincere…

Supports a causal relationship between teacher immediacy and state motivation and replicates a pattern in which students perceive motivation as a personally-owned state and demotivation as a teacher-owned problem. Observes test-retest changes in state motivation and teacher use of nonverbal immediacy behaviors, with absence of negatives more…

Describes the author's experiences teaching in north Texas, part of a great stretch of the United States where challenging ideas is not a comfortable behavior. Suggests that English teachers teaching in an increasingly conservative American culture are going to have to admit and clarify their own values. (RS)

Finds four categories of instructional practice: background knowledge, vocabulary, alignment, and imagery. Notes that teachers had many different ways of enacting practices within the categories, and that some of the practices had strong theoretical and research support, while most did not. Explores connections between what teachers did and what…

Increasing pressure to raise test scores has led to increased cheating by educators. This results in inaccurate information about individual students. Research suggests that significant numbers of teachers witness or participate in cheating and appear increasingly indifferent to cheating. Necessary actions to address the problem of cheating…

Describes strategies that research indicates caregivers use while reading books with young children: strategies that simplify or extend book language; prosody; and management strategies so the book reading event is meaningful for children. Suggests how teachers can use these same strategies in preschool settings to plan meaningful book sharing.…

Compares the results of four studies made under the auspices of the Science Teacher Training in an Information Society (STTIS) project researching the difficulties students have in reading images. The studies are compared under such categories as pre-eminence of narrative readings, real-world versus symbolic elements, verbal elements, and…

Presents a model of literacy based on five habits of effective reading teachers. Explains the rationale and theory that supports: (1) the importance of choice; (2) teaching for continuous progress; (3) curriculum integration; (4) individual conferencing, and (5) child-centered, child-directed activities. (NH)

Grounded in attribution theory, this investigation examined explanations students provide when college teachers misbehave, and the influence of perceived teacher immediacy shaping those interpretations. Across two different samples, college students responded to questionnaires assessing perceptions of their teachers' immediacy, teacher…

The reasons for creating difficult people in education are suspected to be budget constraints, increased expectations and bad educational press. The kinds of difficult people according to library specialist Luisa are discussed along with the terms the psychologists use to describe them.

There are some children that teachers just do not feel the same way about as they do others in their classrooms. In fact, there are some children that teachers may actively dislike. This is not uncommon. But what can a teacher do when this is the case? In this article, the author gives advice to teachers who have problems with negative feelings…

Researchers in the area of educational effectiveness should attempt to develop a new theoretical framework. A critical analysis of the current models of educational effectiveness research is provided and reveals that a dynamic model of effectiveness must: (a) be multilevel in nature, (b) be based on the assumption that the relation of some…

Some classroom-management techniques actually undermine establishment of an orderly classroom and impair an otherwise competent teacher's ability to win changing behavior. Instead of changing behavior, all teachers achieve with these heavy-handed techniques is minimal compliance, beneath which lies deep resentment, a breeding ground for…

For twenty years, the author of this article has helped prepare teachers for middle and high school classrooms. As with most lengthy journeys, this author relates how her journey as a teacher educator had taken different pathways. Early in her career, she had emphasized mainly what teachers should know: levels of Bloom's taxonomy, types of…

Why are some people successful with students although others have given up on them? This author believes it is because they have a strength-based focus and an optimistic perspective. These educators move "out of the problem and into the solution" by exhibiting eight behaviors of strength-based teachers.