Describes how proper pairing of students and teachers by belief systems can develop student attitudes that foster openness, sensitivity to change, the ability to withstand stress, and to behave adaptively, flexibly, and creatively. Four belief systems are described and suggestions made for meeting the individual needs of these four behavior types.…

Research supported by the U.S. Office of Education.

Five commonly used selection criteria were studied to determine their relationship to nine teaching behaviors of 112 preservice teachers in laboratory preschools. Results indicate that the commonly used factors for selecting and hiring preschool teachers are moderately useful indicators of certain behaviors that comprise teaching. (JOW)

A continued and deepened conversation on academic ethics is needed (1) to sensitize and educate both the profession and its constituencies to the issues, and (2) to make clearer what is a public, professional issue and what variations of style and performance are legitimately matters of individual taste. (Author/MSE)

Discusses the changes in sex roles which elementary teachers in Victoria, Australia, perceived to have occurred during the past decade and how such perceptions affected them and their teaching of male and female pupils. Interviews and observation methods were used. Results showed differences between male and female teachers' perceptions of…

Adolescent students were asked to evaluate different control strategies used by teachers in dealing with disruptive behavior. Results indicated that initiatory aggressive strategies that seem to be effective in controlling behavior could have other deleterious consequences. (Author/MJL)

Recounts how awareness of the fact that she could retire if she wanted to changed the way a teacher taught and thought, and allowed her to relax. (JL)

Points out how student understanding of as well as student confusion about reading and word recognition are both functions of teacher behavior. (FL)

Using an earlier study which showed that teachers emphasize learner-centered behavior and deemphasize controlling behavior when teaching adults, researchers analyzed the factors of responsiveness and control in the behavior of school teachers and college instructors and developed a scale for measuring differences in teaching younger and older…

Four experiments that elicited both high school and college writing teachers' evaluations of prose styles (nominal versus verbal) and a typing test that examined the processing of nominal-verbal prose revealed that nominal styles, though they are more indirect and can be too inflated and too abstract, are preferred as indications of writing…

Discusses how to promote professional growth for teachers who will be working in the same school for decades. A clinical approach for teacher development which encourages self-awareness of teaching behavior is described. This approach helps teachers to experimentally test their beliefs about their own teaching in their classrooms. (AM)

Proposes concept of the Teacher Value System as explanation for the phenomenon of students in foreign language classroom producing nonsensical utterances. Argues that these statements are product of particular patterns of teacher behavior. Believes this explanation affords insight into some prerequisites for communicative teaching. (Author/BK)