This article outlines the three contrasting ideologies of student management, and presents the teacher behavior continium that is organized around the methods and strategies of these approaches. Specific techniques are suggested for the counselor to offer the teacher in determining what might work best with a particular youngster. (LPG)

Describes a Virginia Western Community College two-year follow-up of its developmental mathematics students, revealing that Blacks and males enrolled in and failed developmental mathematics at significantly higher rates than Whites and females; female instructors had a higher pass rate; graduates were prepared for all college math courses except…

Describes four possible ways to teach science: the formal, the indirect, the interpersonal, and the integrative. Provides examples of science lessons which illustrate each of these ways of teaching. (PEB)

Describes the stages that students go through when they are first introduced to self-directed learning and lists specific strategies teachers can use to help students through the crises. (IRT)

Findings indicate that students whose teachers support their competence to make classroom decisions, compared to students whose teachers do not, are confident and more committed to making classroom decisions. Students in a cooperative learning structure, compared to those in a competitive one, expect enjoyable and productive decision-making…

An epistemological interpretation of the Campbell and Fiske model is offered to show its usefulness in validating classroom observation instruments. This interpretation is used to critique a recent validation study and is then applied to the problem of validating the construct "View of Science", using a classroom observation instrument.…

As the age of the "typical" teacher increases, there is a greater need for teacher renewal; three approaches to teacher renewal are examined. (MM)

The ruling from Strasbourg that the use of the birch is "degrading", and an assault on "a person's dignity and physical integrity", has again focused attention on corporal punishment in schools. Here a probationary teacher describes his feelings about teaching in a school where every week two children are caned, five slippered, and forty smacked…

Describes an alternate approach to the technical/rational methods of teacher supervision. Proposes a naturalistic supervisory practice and lists the assumptions on which it is based. (RK)

Presents a continuation of an earlier article in this journal, giving French classroom words and expressions (and German equivalents), dealing with behavior during class, group work, discussion, role playing, language learning games usable in the reading phase, oral correction, and praise. (Text is in French and German.) (IFS/WGA)

A sequential program is outlined for improving the behavior of students in school. (JD)

An elementary school child's perceptions of his teacher's nonverbal behavior is presented to illustrate how those behaviors are interpreted both correctly and incorrectly, and how--regardless of the validity of the interpretation--they affect pupil response. (MJB)

The study reported in this paper developed a categorization of teacher physical motion in relation to verbal actions and analyzed two random samples of such motion as a basis for posing ten hypotheses concerning teacher nonverbal behavior. (MJB)

Providing teachers with training in interactive behavior skills (activities) is not sufficient to change teacher behavior in the classroom unless teacher beliefs about what is important (objectives) in the classroom are also modified. (MB)

Examination of the content knowledge of six experienced secondary school physics and biology teachers through observation of instructional planning indicated that the influence of the teachers' subject matter knowledge was evident in their modifications of textbook subject matter content and through their use of explanatory representations.…