Describes an informal discussion between a museum docent and a group of students visiting the museum. Compares the instructional strategies used in museum education and the regular school classroom. Concludes that students would gladly take responsibility for their own learning if textbooks and curriculum guides did not constrain them. (CFR)

The IEA's Classroom Environment Study, implemented in grades 5-9 in 9 countries, examined effects on student outcomes of home, community, school, teacher, and student characteristics and classroom practices. Across countries, course content varied widely, but teachers relied on relatively few classroom behaviors. Student learning was affected by…

This study identified five categories of factors that inhibit science teaching effectiveness by bringing stress on science teachers: student characteristics; teacher characteristics; school environment; administrative procedures; and conditions of service. Coping strategies to relieve stress are provided. (Contains 29 references.) (MDH)

Examines teacher's use of their personal knowledge and qualities, such as trust, acceptance, tolerance, or sympathy toward the learner, as a means of helping students in teacher education develop and use their personal knowledge. The article focuses on the element of uncertainty and its effect on the teacher student relationship. (GLR)

Examines programs of research on teaching for their consideration of teacher intentionality. Neither process-product, cognitive processing, nor reflective teaching research offers a complete account of intentionality. A fully intentional account will allow individual and societal analysis of teaching to help educators understand how their own…

In a two-phase study, 148 undergraduate students identified qualities of effective teachers. These and items from existing measures of teaching effectiveness were combined, and this meta-inventory was administered to 266 psychology students. Results revealed teacher effectiveness is multidimensional in nature, comprising three factors: respect for…

Explores embodiment, conversation, and anecdote as a way to interpret the teacher's experience of being evaluated. Builds on a phenomenological investigation of the way evaluators "look" at teachers during performance evaluations. Argues that different means of evaluating teachers, one's that do not objectify the teacher, are needed. (DSK)

Describes the activities of a Florida workshop designed to inform local service providers of the National Agenda for the Education of Children and Youths with Visual Impairments, Including Those with Multiple Disabilities, and to motivate them to design strategies to meet the eight goals of the National Agenda. (CR)

Evaluates teaching sequences in high-school choral rehearsals to provide insight into the relationship between ensemble achievement and performance preparation. Indicates that teacher pace improvement is unrelated to ensemble maturity, teacher verbalization may not relate to success, and teacher assistance and instructions decrease with student…

Investigates how students and professor negotiated different ideas about teaching and reading in a preservice course on teaching secondary school literature. Finds that students' acceptance or rejection of unfamiliar ideas was closely tied to three major factors: prior experiences with literature, ideas about culturally sanctioned conceptions of…

Investigates elementary school teachers' beliefs and classroom practices about reading. Describes how three of the teachers experimented with new language, beliefs, and/or practices, juxtaposing them with current beliefs and practices. Considers how, at the end of two years, two teachers had altered their beliefs and transformed their practices,…

Summarizes two studies concerning the attitudes of children aged 8-11 about being an artist and being creative, and concerning the effects of teacher behaviors and classroom verbal communication on student creativity. Discusses implications for camp activities in terms of camper exploration of ideas and materials and staff behaviors that encourage…

Presents results from a teaching effectiveness survey of alumni. Indicates alumni believe that good instructors should demonstrate effective preparation, interest in course material and students, availability to students outside of class, effective pedagogy, practical application, classroom interaction with students, sociability, and a high level…

Finds that, despite the 1997 Arizona endorsement of arts standards as recommended requirements for graduation, secondary school theatre teachers profiled in this study are not accountable for, possess no ownership of, and make no investment in implementing the state's theatre standards on a systematic basis with students in their classrooms. (SR)

A study investigated the ways that six general and special education teachers and five school staff worked to identify and solve their concerns about children with disabilities in their classrooms. Educators collaborated to resolve concerns about children with disabilities by following problem-solving steps somewhat similar to traditional…