THIS PROJECT IS CONCERNED WITH IMPROVEMENT OF THE NORMAL HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULUM WHICH IS VIRTUALLY LIMITED TO VERBAL AND FACTUAL SYSTEMS OF LEARNING. IT IS HYPOTHESIZED THAT VISUAL LEARNING CAN PROVIDE PERSONAL INVOLVEMENT AND DEEP CONSEQUENT MOTIVATION. TEAMS OF TEACHERS FROM SPECIALLY INVITED PUBLIC SCHOOLS PARTICIPATED IN TWO AND THREE…

This paper presents a model for training graduate students to teach, and reports the experiences and outcomes of an intitial application of the approach. The application took place with a large undergraduate class in introductory psychology with a professor in charge, assisted by five beginning graduate teaching assistants. The course met twice…

A study investigated the extent to which bottom-up and top-down conceptual frameworks of reading were held by primary grades teachers. In the first phase of the study, 66 teachers were given the Theoretical Orientation to Reading Profile (TORP), which was designed to reflect belief systems of reading instruction organized around a continuum from…

This journal highlights six papers by international authors on various topics in education. Written in French with a summary in English, the first article discusses the analysis of the regulatory effect and corrective value of three kinds of feedback (stereotype, specific, and feedback with self control) on preoperational subjects. The second…

This study attempts to determine the relative power of six factors that might influence decisions of teachers about the content of fourth-grade mathematics: district tests, mandated textbooks, the principal's opinion, and parents' opinions. Sixty-six teachers were presented with descriptions of hypothetical school districts constructed to provide…

As part of the evaluation of the Bay Area Writing Project (BAWP), 12 teachers participating in the BAWP Summer Invitational Program and 11 teachers who participated in BAWP inservice programs were interviewed before and after their BAWP experiences. The BAWP training appeared to change both inservice and invitational teachers regardless of teacher…

This research study delineates some of the factors in classroom communication involved in the process of classroom interaction in the elementary schools and explores the psychological relevance of some matters brought up in ordinary language philosophy and modern linguistics. Samples of classroom speech were collected from twenty grade school…

Methods used in studies of the classroom language of the English teacher are described in this paper and some results of the research are reported. The paper first describes three methods traditionally employed in the description of the language of the English classroom--live observation systems, coding systems based on transcripts, and…

This paper addresses the issue of how learning in classrooms takes place. The effects of different curriculum and different teaching methods in knowledge acquisition is examined, both as main effects and in interaction with student attitudes. The role of the teacher in communicating the knowledge to be acquired is described. Teachers are viewed as…

A generalizability study of timed observations was conducted in 25 primary grade classes to observe teachers' use of time--for instruction, evaluation of instruction, and classroom management--according to the hour and day observed. Observational methods used by on-site researchers included videotape, checklists, running documentaries, frequency…

Results of a survey to determine the attitudes of student teachers toward 20 educational concepts before and after their student teaching experience are reported. The concepts were divided into three subgroups: attitudes toward interpersonal behaviors, techniques and methods, and classroom structure. Ten student teachers in fine arts as well as…

Cooperative research was used in revising and strengthening core courses in a teacher education program. Feedback was used to provide suggestions for more appropriate and relevant knowledge to be presented at the preservice level. In the course of initial research first-year teachers were asked to help identify areas in their teacher education…

Two social trends are affecting the way in which children--particularly those of different ethnic groups--become socialized: children are spending less time with parents and more in day care centers and schools, and desegregation alters normal patterns of peer relationships. Since classroom behavior is affected by antecedent social behaviors, a…

CREATIVE READING IS DEFINED AS READING FOR IMPLIED AND INFERRED MEANINGS, APPRECIATIVE REACTIONS, AND CRITICAL EVALUATION. THE ACT OF CRITICAL READING GOES BEYOND LITERAL COMPREHENSION TO DEMAND THAT THE READER PRODUCE FRESH, ORIGINAL IDEAS NOT EXPLICITLY STATED IN THE READING MATERIAL. THE READER BECOMES AN ACTIVE PARTICIPANT AND ADDS TO WHAT THE…

This series of working papers represents early stages in the development of a versatile and economical Computer-Assisted Teacher Training System (CATTS) for special educators, a system capable of providing immediate visual feedback of data relevant to teacher-pupil interaction in a classroom setting. Part 1 discusses the problem of existing…