This case, which was inspired by actual events, describes the efforts of a district to create a culture of accountability for professional employee practice and behavior. In the midst of new district leaders and a shift in district priorities, numerous situations test the fortitude, organizational knowledge, ethical commitments, and political…

This research is an examination of the interactions between 19 pairs of student teachers and cooperating teachers engaged in guided reading instruction in Grades 1 through 3. As the basis for the study, the authors analyzed interaction patterns through conducting content analysis (Van Sluys, Lewison, & Seely Flint, 2006) and discourse analysis…

The lack of separation, in the mind of the teacher, of self from student is a common, though dangerous, phenomenon. The underlying assumption is that teachers and their students are really the same, but that students are betraying that supposed sameness by not performing satisfactorily. But students, being different from their teachers, have…

A discussion of the results of a microteaching experiment in Great Britain that indicates that self-instructional microteaching is effective in bringing about large and stable changes in teacher behavior. (Author/HB)

From the perspective of perceptual psychology the goal of educational psychology is to educate students who, freed to discover the personal meaning of information and apply it to problem solving situations throughout the teacher education program, begin the process of becoming effective teachers. (RC)

In 1973 a commission of the FMF (Modern Foreign Language League, Federal Republic of Germany) published a proposal for a taxonomy of activity characteristics of the FL teacher. Kurt Otten criticized this proposal in the weekly "Die Zeit" (19 April 1974). Here, members of the FMF commission reject four of Otten's assertions. (Text is in…

An attempt was made to change the beliefs and instructional behaviour of 23 prospective teachers in accord with John Dewey's philosophy of experimentalism. Results indicate that there was significant change in their beliefs as well as in their classroom teaching behaviour. (Author)

In presenting classification problems to a random sampling of fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students, the author was able to devise a method of using interaction analysis as a tool to measure student behavior patterns in the outdoors. Limitations included the inability to categorize non-verbal behavior. (MA)

This paper opened a workshop session designed to demonstrate a group training process using the collegial modeling process. This process was developed within the faculty of a small high school serving a correctional facility. The program described was developed to allow teachers the option to model specific behaviors to both their colleagues and…

A study determined if there were common psychological causes associated with teachers who considered themselves more-than-average procrastinators and who also felt that they were under personal and professional stress as a result of their work. Interviews were conducted with 44 secondary school teachers to elicit responses regarding educational…

This presentation briefly reviews literature on first year teachers, summarizes findings from naturalistic research conducted in a first year teacher's classroom, and identifies implications for the preparation of teachers. Research studies indicate a need for more rich descriptions of teaching experiences to identify problem areas and to assess…

This study is concerned with changes in teacher behavior brought about by training with the USU Protocol Modules. (Editor)

Principals, this author says, must allow teachers to appraise themselves. Introducing teachers to observation systems and inviting them to participate will give them the impetus to improve their teaching through increased self-knowledge. (Editor)

Article provided guidelines for supervising teachers or supervisors to keep in mind when evaluating a student teacher. (Author/RK)