The brain needs energy, oxygen, and water to operate. Access to the bathroom pass can become a major conflict between teachers and students and has great potential for disrupting classes. The classroom can be humanized by granting more bathroom passes and allowing water bottles. (MLH)

Argues that explicit instruction is not a characteristic of teaching practices as much as an aspect of the negotiated space between teaching and learning. Describes how three teaching strategies that shift focus from teachers' explicit telling to learners' explicit thinking (demonstration, assisted performance, and reflective description) make…

Asserts that theories of caring in education have avoided issues of racial imbalance. Reinterprets these themes from a black feminist perspective: moral relevance, primacy of survival, significance of one's standpoint, and the moral power of narrative. (SK)

Suggests that, when reviewed in controlled settings with experienced consultants, videotapes provide unique opportunities for instructor insight, feedback, and reflection. Discusses advantages of using videotape to talk about teaching, how such videotaping is done, and the risks of such videotaping. (RS)

Describes tensions of teaching and effects they might have on experiences of the classroom. Values, knowledge, time, audience, rewards, standards, evaluations, privacy, and the situation of teaching are some of the elements among these tensions. Suggestions are made for behaviors teachers can bring to the classroom that explore and use tensions to…

In a case involving a somewhat sarcastic elementary teacher, a Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court reversed the state commissioner of education's affirmation of her dismissal based on persistent negligence. Results of teachers' alleged verbal abuse of students depends on the nature of the claim, not just specific evidence. (MLH)

Compared the perceptions of students athletic trainers and their clinical instructors regarding helpful clinical instructor characteristics. Surveys of undergraduate students and instructors indicated that both groups considered modeling professional behavior the most helpful category of clinical instructor characteristics in student learning.…

Examines the relationship between college student perceptions of teacher immediacy and student ratings of instruction. Notes that 266 students responded to instruments designed to measure the frequency of teachers' verbal and nonverbal immediacy behaviors. Finds positive correlation between immediacy and student ratings of instruction. Discusses…

Focuses on how teachers serve as ethical role models to students and how their day-to-day interactions both inside and outside the classroom communicate their moral values as much as the formal curriculum that they teach. Dramatizes the importance of paying close attention to the way we treat others in a variety of non-classroom settings and…

Shows the need for teachers to acknowledge to themselves the extent of self censorship in their reviewing and purchasing decisions. Discusses teachers' and students' responses to the novel "I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This." Offers strategies that encourage and support the use of Social Issues Realism, and strategies that support a…

Business students (n=155) and faculty (n=40) had similar opinions on factors influencing learning. They believed professors provided major input into the learning process. Important dimensions in delivery included presentation clarity, enthusiasm, and fairness and quality of exams. (SK)

Offers a portrait of what the author hopes for in his children's teachers. Argues that many, if not most, parents want to work with teachers for the benefit of their children. (SR)

Studies how experienced teachers of literature created a sense of continuity and coherence in a curriculum over relatively long periods of time. Finds that although the classrooms created a stable set of domain conventions, similarity in broad topics and goals within the curriculum masked great diversity at the level of classroom practice. (NH)

This study examined the validity of student ratings of teaching within a two-cohort sample of academically talented high school students (N=851). Results indicated that rating of low-inference (i.e., observable) teaching behaviors were significant predictors of global ratings of teaching effectiveness, whereas expected grade in a course and course…

Addresses patterns and influence of student perceptions of instructor power use, affinity-seeking, and nonverbal immediacy in American and German classrooms. Notes that American instructors were seen to be higher in power use, affinity-seeking, and nonverbal immediacy than German instructors. Concludes that the influence of instructor referent…