Article suggested that educators keep up to date on children's rights, both the legal and human ones. (Editor/RK)

Suggestions are listed for teacher behavior and classroom rules intended to maintain order and establish good work habits. (RM)

The purpose of this study was to learn about teachers' thinking processes as they attempted to implement in their classrooms two recently acquired models of teaching. The first, the concept attainment strategy, focused on having students categorize people, places, or events into classes according to certain cues provided by positive or negative…

This paper reports on a small, exploratory study which compared the perceptions and thinking of secondary school teachers in three countries--England, West Germany, and the United States--regarding teaching practice and several other factors which are related to the conduct of good practice. The study was conducted by the…

The purpose of this study was to describe preschool teachers' interventions during children's free play. A Weberian sociological framework was used to examine (1) what happens when teachers intervene into children's play, (2) teachers' beliefs and thus their decisions about play, and (3) the relationship between these issues. Three preschool…

This study explored the issue of whether kindergartens and child care centers differed in terms of educational and caregiving components. Participants were 60 children between 3 and 4 years of age who attended child care centers or kindergartens in Dunedin, New Zealand, and 25 staff members of the programs. Interval-type observations of teachers'…

The common assumption that teacher evaluation has a positive impact on the improvement of teaching is challenged. Critical challenges to the assumed contribution of teacher evaluation to learning originate from at least three areas of scholarly work: (1) revisionist/Marxist literature, which describes educational structures including teacher…

This study sought to describe, at the level of practice, one teacher's use of humanism in the classroom. Methods of participant observation were used to capture reflective contrasts between the subject's intended behavior (by formal and informal interviews), actual behavior (by direct observation), and ideal behavior (by readings from humanist…

This report (a product of the Teacher Beliefs Study) examines several different frameworks for conceptualizing and studying teachers' goals and their relationship to classroom practices. The report begins with an examination of the manner in which goals have been conceptualized by different research programs in the field of teacher thinking…

This article seeks to clear a way for the discovery of a mode of describing objectives which would be more suitable to humanities subjects. Some weak points in previous attempts to do this are analysed, and some of the major problems of the field are presented. (Author)

Describes the involvement of pupils in increasing the frequency of teacher attention to appropriate classroom behaviors. Results indicate pupils can be successful intervention agents in aiding the teacher modify her behavior. (Author)

Presented are analytical abstracts, prepared by science educators, of fourteen research reports. The abstracts are grouped in three clusters: teacher characteristics and behaviors, student characteristics and behaviors, and instruction. Each abstract includes bibliographical data, research design and procedure, purpose, research rationale, and an…

The effect of clarity of explanation on student learning and perception of teacher and course effectiveness is examined. Two levels of clarity were utilized, as determined by appropriate use of examples and sequencing of instruction. Three instruments were used to measure the dependent variables: university student rating form; affective…