This paper considers recent state and federal court decisions regarding the private lives of teachers. It discusses in detail cases involving homosexuality, which are the most controversial, and cases involving heterosexuality. Also discussed are cases involving teacher relationships with minor students, nonsexual immorality, drug-related…

This paper reviews the research and commentary literature on techniques, traits, and success factors for teachers of the disadvantaged. The author categorizes and discusses behaviors for teachers of the disadvantaged within four selected dimensions: 1) Affective (related to the teacher's attitudes, emotions, feelings, and values), 2) Cognitive…

This review of research on teacher behavior covers 200 references cited in the bibliography, the bulk of them published in the 1960's. A short introductory section on the status of research on teacher behavior notes that it is "voluminous and contradictory." The main body of the paper is organized in terms of the reason why research on teacher…

This study is a report on a series of exemplary and instructional reading programs conducted by the Exemplary Center for Reading Instruction and designed to improve reading instruction in kindergarten through grade 12. The following topics are included: (1) evaluation of beginning reading programs, including materials selection, materials…

A typology of teacher encounters was derived from observations of elementary school teachers for the purposes of ordering field data and indicating teaching experiences outside the classroom which affect, through sociocultural forces, classroom teaching behavior. From observations of teacher encounters in the auditorium, faculty room, school…

To investigate the effects of interaction analysis feedback on the verbal behavior of student teachers, 40 college seniors enrolled in an elementary teaching program were randomly selected and divided into experimental and control groups. Following training in interaction analysis during an academic quarter, subjects were assigned to eight…

The purpose of this project is to present the results of the authors efforts to analyze classroom discourse into strategies. The source of data used in this investigation is the same as that which was used in the previous study of the logic of instruction. It consists of recorded classroom discourse at the high school level including grades nine…

This latest in a series of studies (of conditions which support creative problemsolving activity of gifted children) attempted to assess the immediate impact of an inservice training program to promote inductive and nondirective teaching behaviors. Subjects were 160 teachers (124 who participated in the training program and 36 constituting a…

A study was designed to determine whether the presence or absence of a classroom observer and the prior knowledge or lack of knowledge that an observation was to occur would affect the verbal behavior of teachers as measured by the Flanders System of Interaction Analysis. The variables were dichotomized yielding a 2 x 2 x 2 experimental design…

A scheme of student cognitive growth is suggested by a combination of Piaget's developmental stages and Bruner's imagery-related stages: the concrete level, for which imagery is not necessary; the concrete-imagery level, with imagery for enrichment of the concrete; the representational level, for which imagery is needed to make the translation to…

A study was conducted to determine to what extent student teaching behaviors can be changed as a result of participation in the Far West Laboratory Minicourse I, "Effective Questioning Techniques" (a program relying on microteaching, filmed instructional and model lessons, and on teacher planning and self-evaluation of his own videotaped lessons).…

This discussion of teacher expectations attempts to delineate the research steps that are needed to convincingly validate or invalidate the Pygmalion Effect. Five elements of expectancy effects are identified: (1) Information provided to teachers, (2) their expectancies, (3) behavior, (4) children's achievement and (5) intelligence. An examination…

In preparation for this publication, 16 young teachers from different grade levels and different school districts were invited to meet in group discussions and speak about their experiences. All sessions were taped; the transcript was edited and organized to show the moment of passion, crises, and growth of new teachers. The tape extracts have…

The seven papers in this book were prepared as the bases of discussions at a BEPD-sponsored conference which dealt with the ways in which teachers can make a difference in education. The conference was a followup to one held a year earlier on the topic, "Do Teachers Make a Difference." The implications which can be drawn suggest the need to make…