This teacher evaluation checklist with accompanying manual was designed for use in Hartford, Connecticut, public schools to provide a means of teacher self-evaluation and to provide principals and other designated administrators criteria for objective observations and comment on the quality of teaching activity. (The "Instrument for the…

It was hypothesized that when no standard of "good teaching" is set for the self-evaluation of teaching performance, behavior changes and patterns of information selection would be determined by the teacher's satisfaction with his performance (the smaller the satisfaction, the fewer self-evaluating changes take place and the less teaching-related…

To examine the relationship between a teacher's critical thinking ability and his classroom verbal behavior and perception of teaching purposes, 39 teachers first completed the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal. The 10 highest and 10 lowest scorers were then observed and videotaped in their classrooms during three one-half hour periods,…

A study was conducted to determine whether personality variables are correlated with specific teaching behaviors as measured before and after a minicourse ("Effective Questioning in a Classroom Discussion," a self-contained package of instructional materials in which teaching skills, which the teacher practices by microteaching, are…

This paper presents a theoretical account of an 18-month case study of seven teachers concerned with curriculum development. A conception of the eclectic and problematic habits of mind required by intelligent teacher deliberation and choice is presented. The generation of useful information for teachers is given as a goal for this study.…

This newsletter briefly describes the philosophy and work of project KULT-A, the evaluation of teacher service in Sweden; the latter is a follow-up to project KUL-A, evaluation of teacher training. The project's approach is reported as an effort to find which factors will in a specific context cause a teacher to feel more satisfied with his work.…

Recent events in behavior modification stimulated application of communication theory to teacher behavior and classroom management. For the purposes of this present investigation, it was assumed that criteria of effective communication are highly dependent on the phenomena of redundancy and consistency, which are both of major importance in any…

This controlled study investigaged the effects of training, with and without feedback, on increasing teachers' higher-order classroom and test questions and improving the correlation between these two kinds of questioning behavior. A Questions Analyzer was used to obtain the data from 12 elementary school teachers in Tennessee. Classroom and test…

Investigated was the relationship between verbal interaction of elementary science teachers with their students and students' creativity. Two populations were sampled from the elementary schools in Bangkok, Thailand. Eight teachers and 64 second grade students comprised the sample. Interaction was analyzed by the Flanders System. Creativity was…

The purpose of this study was to determine if teachers who have a more humanistic pupil control ideology exhibit to a greater extent the classroom teacher practices recommended by the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) program as measured by the Biology Classroom Activity Checklist (BCAC) than do teachers who have a more custodial pupil…

To help teachers identify and control their instructional behavior. (DAG)

The importance of listening to students and what true listening involves are examined. (RW)

Homosexual teachers do not influence children toward homosexuality nor do they proselytize. Teachers should be judged on their effectiveness in the classroom, not by their sexual preference. (Author/IRT)

Development of the Florida Performance Measurement System (FPMS) is outlined. A videotaped history lesson by the Secretary of Education, William Bennett, serves to illustrate FPMS' use in the observation of teacher performance, the analysis of observed data, the provision of feedback to teachers, and the derivation of normed observation scores.…

Educators often cause children to behave as though they understand something they don't, denigrating their own questions and conceptions. In an attempt to increase their self-esteem, educators often turn children's attention inward and cause them to be self-absorbed. (MT)