Classroom behaviors of 24 primary reading teachers whose students averaged 1.27 academic years gain per 8 months instruction over the past 3-5 years were observed. Results indicated that, while many of the demonstrated behaviors adhered to advocated practices, several of their behaviors have been strongly criticized in the literature. (Author/NQ)

Students appear to leave the university with intentions to utilize the measurement and evaluation techniques that were presented, yet somehow utilization is not really achieved. (MM)

An approach to classroom observation assignments in teacher education programs is described which focuses on recording a systematic, objective record. (DS)

Competency-based programs offer positive refinement in instructional design, implementation, and evaluation, but a number of unresolved problems offer new challenges and concerns to those teaching educational psychology. (JD)

Attempts to evaluate the influence of homosexual teachers on their students and compares the behavior of the homosexual teacher with that of the heterosexual teacher. (RK)

The great challenge for teacher education is to develop laboratory experiences that make the teacher education student more realistic about classroom teachers' group norms and the school bureaucracy without simultaneously damaging high expectations and ideals. (JD)

Teacher centers are defined and discussed as important components of secondary school teacher renewal. (MM)

Parsons (1964) believed that children were prepared for legitimate social life in classrooms and that the playground was the nursery of crime. This theory is challenged with the view that deviance is learned in classrooms rather than playgrounds. Students' accounts of order and disorder in school are given and contrasted with behavior created by…

The hypothesis that student perceptions of experimentally manipulated teacher structuring, soliciting, and reacting behaviors would mediate the effects of those teacher variables on student achievement was found true for structuring and reacting but not for soliciting. (MJB)

Constitutional and statutory remedies to protect teachers from three specific kinds of interference (obstructing teacher association's communication with members, barring Uniserv directors from representing or visiting members, dismissing association leaders) are discussed. (MJB)

Describes a model for effective classroom management consisting of two major parts: teacher behaviors related to rule establishment and teacher behaviors related to rule enforcement. Eight categories of teacher behavior related to rule enforcement are briefly discussed. (BR)

Before behavioral engineering can be used as an approach to solving classroom problems, it is incumbent upon all teachers to challenge its use, to determine its appropriateness in a learning setting, and to assess its potential effects on human dignity and human freedom. (Author/RK)

Suggests a practical approach to solving the class discipline problem that includes information and skills that teachers need to have as well as six criteria for setting effective classroom behavior limits. (RK)

Suggests using the professional personalities of film and television "stars" as models for emulation by beginning teachers. (RK)

Describes 2 studies in which experienced and inexperienced preschool teachers were observed during children's free play periods. It was suggested that inexperienced teachers tend to go along with children's play perferences, while experienced teachers direct the children into activities they consider more important to academic success (i. e.,…