This handbook recognizes the growing trend away from traditional disciplinary tactics to a discipline policy that encourages student responsibility. This edition, published by the Oklahoma Department of Education, contains three sections. The first describes methods for creating a positive learning climate, some of which include evaluating teacher…

This study evaluated how well the Council for Exceptional Children's "Code of Ethics" and "Standards for Professional Practice" (originally adopted and disseminated in 1983) have been implemented. A brief literature review examined the development and dissemination of the standards. Analysis of completed questionnaires of 171…

This article argues that researchers, in their efforts to refine measures of teacher behavior, have neglected many of those interconnected processes and events which impinge upon behavior in the teaching environment. This, in turn, has fostered inadequacies in the models used to explain factors influencing teacher behavior. (RC)

The two studies reported in this article examine the verbal and nonverbal interaction patterns of (1) bilingual teachers as they switch from one language to another, and (2) bilingual adults in the same classroom, usually a teacher and an assistant teacher or aide.

Nine generalizations are made about what takes place in smaller elementary and secondary school classes (those with 25 students or less). The generalizations are based on findings from nearly 60 studies. (RC)

Describes a simple observational method for recording and evaluating the caregiving behavior of teachers of younger and older infants that may be used to foster program improvement. (ED)

Literary works should not be used as platforms on which teachers can espouse their own social, political, or religious prejudices; but should be taught as works of art with their own integrity. (JH)

Author discussed the problem the classroom teacher faces when meeting "disruptive behavior" during his teaching time. (Author/RK)

Presents definitions of terms used in communicating about Transactional Analysis (TA) and explains how TA may be used in science classes to make students feel more able and less captive. (PEB)

Article examined critical evaluation of the interest-centered curriculum, one in which students meet graduation requirements by accumulating a preestablished number of course units required by their school or department. (Author/RK)

Evidence resulting from a test for a relationship between a teacher's self-acceptance and students' self-concept suggests that the selection of self-accepting teachers at the elementary level is critical to the development of children's self-concept. (Author/KM)

There are virtually no empirical studies of the open classroom which have assessed its critical elements (Bryant, 1972; Walberg and Thomas, 1972). This study took some of the characteristics which have been derived in the descriptive literature and assessed them empirically. (Author)

Research on striking and nonstriking teachers indicates that teacher behavior in conflict situations is related to bureaucratic and professional orientations; the research casts doubt on the image of the bureaucratic teacher as insensitive to pupils. (Author/DW)

No English teacher should do anything that a machine can do. (JH)

The author examines teacher attitudes and behavior in dealing with a course on human sexuality. (JR)