A study of junior high school faculty attributes of sex, age, and organizational status analyzed interpersonal choices concerning association. Men tended to be chosen most often for respect, but one's sex determines who one chooses for social association. Age was most influential in regard to choices for respect and liking. Status most often…

Findings suggest necessity for teachers to recognize atmosphere created by their reinforcing behavior, and that this atmosphere relates to student school anxiety level. Suggests initiation of inservice programs to modify teacher reinforcement behavior. (Author)

Proposes notes toward a theory in an effort to explain how and why people come to perceive certain other people as they do within the context of the school as an organization. (LN)

Points out that the pupil control ideology of student teachers, as a group, did become significantly more custodial during student teaching. Findings indicate that if a teacher feels threatened unless students are rigidly controlled, effective use of inquiry curricular materials is reduced. (LS)

The article describes a program which fosters the notion that normal children will learn if properly stimulated and taught; the pressure is therefore placed on the teacher to teach. In return the teacher is rewarded with more money and higher status. The author raises serious questions about the plan. (Author/BY)

Discusses limitations to the behaviorist approach to classroom management and suggests that schools must design strategies of prevention as well as remediation. (NH)

Discusses courses for training physics teachers designed in terms of major purposes, not immediate objectives. Emphasizes the training must be interwoven with the humanities. (LS)

Attitudes of teachers toward bi-racial situations seem to be an added variable in the praise-criticism dimension of teacher behavior. Classes in which the teacher's race differs from that of the pupils have a more positive situation, which aids in pupil motivation. (Author)

Description of an experience-oriented methods course in the biological sciences for prospective teachers at Syracuse University. Activities include observing and evaluating teaching experiences, designing biology laboratory experiments, developing test items and learning specific biological techniques. Bibliography. (LC)

Presents the procedures, results, and implications of a study designed to (1) develop a reliable category system and method of encoding biology teacher behaviors and (2) use the developed category system and the method of encoding to obtain an objective description of the classroom behaviors of biology teachers. (LC)

The hypothesis that a link exists between a female teacher's sex-role ideology and her expression of sexuality in the classroom was tested. The classroom behavior of three female high school teachers, with traditional, ambivalent, and androgenous sex-role ideologies, was studied using ethnographic observation methods. (AM)

Uses Meadian and critical Marxist concepts to identify 16 dilemmas--grouped into dilemmas of control, curriculum, and societal values--that reflect common contradictions of teaching and learning in schools. Characterizes by types of patterns the attempts of teachers to resolve institutional contradictions. (JW)

Argues that differences in instruction influence differences in students' reading abilities as much as do variations in individual learning styles or aptitudes. Suggests ideas for enhancing instruction of poor readers. (RH)