Determines the relationship of student teachers' commitment to values, attitudes, and behaviors characteristically fostered by bureaucratic organizations and their verbal classroom behavior while teaching. Findings reveal no difference in verbal classroom behavior of student teachers high and low in bureaucratic orientation, and no difference in…

This discussion of a study of 30 physical education majors involved in a course focused on helping them improve their ability to observe the teaching and coaching environments is organized around three principles of observation--analysis, planning, and positioning. (JMF)

Examines the problem of sex discrimination and sex-role stereotyping with respect to instruction in undergraduate science laboratory classes. Deals specifically with the behavior of instructors as they interact with students during laboratory sessions. A significant difference in male and female teacher behavior was found in three basic areas.…

The ultimate goal of the Schools Without Failure training program is to produce changes in teacher behaviors and attitudes which will affect pupils in positive ways. A major aim of the study was to determine if expected behavioral changes actually took place for teachers. (Author/RK)

Comments and suggestions are directed to art educators in colleges, art schools, and universities. Evaluates art teachers and their teaching methods, specifically the rhetorical versus the dialogue approach to teaching art. (Author/RK)

Firing, censorship, sexism--understand the contracts and laws that affect you. (Editor)

A week-by-week readiness program for preschool and early primary children. (Editor)

Deprecates accountability because it is unfair to hold teachers accountable for outcomes they cannot control, the application of the concept tends to escalate teachers' concern for easily measured outcomes, and continuation of the trend is likely to narrow and harden the school's responses to the society. (Author/IRT)

Marginal teachers have three common behaviors that have questionable or negative effects on student learning: failure to create an appropriate classroom atmosphere, lack of personal insight and motivation, and unwillingness to accept responsibility for problems. When mentoring and improvement programs fail, collaborative programs with the right…

Identifies seven strategies that will help strengthen the bond between parents and teachers of children with learning disabilities. Strategies include celebrating children's individuality, identifying with parents, providing information, talking with parents, avoiding stereotyping, reaching out to parents, and warning about media portrayals of…

Administered a specially developed instrument, the Homework Attitude and Behavior Inventory (HABIT), to 120 teachers in two middle schools with a clear homework policy and two without. Schools with a well-defined homework policy had teachers who gave, collected, marked, and returned homework significantly more often and believed in the usefulness…

Outlines perspectives on literacy evident in the mass media: the business perspective, the deficiency perspective, and the combat perspective. Reflects on other literacy metaphors, and argues that, as knowledgeable participants in the public debate, teachers should use literacy labels that reflect more authentic and legitimate viewpoints. (SR)

Examines use of behavior alteration techniques (BATs) to gain student compliance in the Chinese context. Finds that Chinese college teachers use most the BATs that United States college teachers use; use many BATs even more frequently; but communicate behavior alteration messages that differ from those used by United States teachers. Notes that…