Presents an overview of research on the ways in which classroom thermal environment, lighting conditions, ion state, and electromagnetic and air pollution affect learning and the performance of students and teachers. (SJL)

Based on work by H. G. Murray, this study examines relationships between overt classroom teaching behaviors of college instructors and student ratings of teaching effectiveness. Analysis reveals a two-dimensional structure consisting of instructor clarity and student-teacher rapport dimensions. Teaching behaviors loading on these dimensions are…

Teachers viewed interactions with low-expectation students as less controllable than those with high-expectation students and teacher initiations were perceived as more controllable than child initiations. In addition, less perceived control over a student was associated with less feedback from the teacher. (Author/GDC)

Finds that although the classroom behavior of second- grade pupils is, in most ways, statistically independent of their families' income, teachers of low income family pupils criticize more often, are more directive, and seem more concerned with control. Argues that these teachers prepare their students for failure. (Author/GC)

Suggests ways to help teachers implement inservice ideas in content area reading. Includes a planning chart and a series of questions content teachers can ask themselves about upcoming assignments or lessons. (MKM)

Teachers tend to give directions that their pupils can follow correctly. Children are better able to process increasingly complex directions as they get older. (Authors/CJ)

Until recently, teacher behaviors as conceptualized by educational researchers were not consistent with teachers' own views of effective teaching. Explicit attention has to be devoted to the characteristics of the teacher so that changes or adoptions of new procedures will be congruent with the teacher's own ideas and attitudes. (JN)

Stresses increasing need for educators to evaluate and modify their attitudes and behavior as sex role models, in order to avoid negative influences for students, in terms of achievement, career, marriage, and general psychological well-being. (JD)

This article calls for a restructuring of teacher education programs and some critical changes in schools themselves to provide a more realistic program of teacher preparation. (JMF)

Presents ideas for distributive education teachers to use in the classroom to motivate students to learn, listing 11 teacher behaviors which contribute to a positive classroom climate and 16 specific recommendations for student motivation activities. (MF)

Relates experiences in teaching children's literature to practicing teachers; suggests that teacher-students be put through exactly the same experiences as they will ask their pupils to go through, and reports that it is very effective to have teacher-students work in teams to explore literary texts or teaching problems. (GT)

Examples are given of how a careless or overly personal sex education instructor can endanger an entire school program. (LH)

Uses a Transactional Analysis (TA) model to analyze destructive classroom interaction patterns between teacher and student. Suggests ways that teachers can prevent manipulative interpersonal games from allowing the learning situation to deteriorate. (GC)

Examines the effect of classroom environment on teaching and learning behaviors of children. Second-, third-, and fourth- grade elementary school classrooms were selected for this study. (MP)

Determined if student teachers experience role conflict, based on a comparison of cognitions held for selected student teachers' behaviors by members of three school-related social positions. The greatest disparity was over curriculum and planning. (Author)