Focuses on what can be learned from Native Americans and how those learnings can change preservice teacher education. Learnings about cooperation, privacy, consensus, and wait-time are discussed and offered as positive alternative behaviors in the teaching profession. (ERB)

Academic patterns of power (over students, curriculum, etc.), pretense (faculty claims about competence and experience), and piggybacking (conversion of institutions into education conglomerates) reveal some ethical issues. The patterns are deeply rooted, each with historical reason for being and current justification, yet each has outcomes that…

The artfully inviting teacher utilizes both personal and professional teaching strategies and is thus most successful at maximizing student development. Personally inviting behaviors send messages which communicate caring and positive regard. Professionally inviting behaviors increase the recipients' efficacy, competence, and independence.…

While acknowledging that value judgments are unavoidable in teaching, argues that teachers should pursue an ideal of objectivity as part of their general commitment to rationality. Contends that values may legitimately enter into instruction in terms of methodological norms, but that substantive value judgments should be limited. (WL)

Discusses the complaints cited by young teachers as reasons for leaving the profession and offers suggestions for ways principals can respond to or remediate those complaints. (FL)

Examines the relationship between teacher attitudes toward students and visual attending behavior in the classroom. Thirty-two students were identified in four categories, subsequently labeled accepted, indifferent, concerned and rejected. Results indicated significant differences in visual attending behavior and a two-way interaction with pupil…

Notes briefly the major obstacles to effective questioning (repeating questions, answering one's own questions, repeating student responses). Describes effective questioning techniques, including the use of probing questions that build toward clarification and correct response to the original question. (RL)

Reviews materials in the ERIC system dealing with teachers' questioning behaviors. (HTH)

The authors believe that teacher burnout is a developmental stage in a teacher's career which signals that the teacher is ready for a change. This can be accomplished by updating, training, widening knowledge, and setting professional goals. (CT)

The author advocates positive discipline based on teacher behavior which demonstrates self-confidence, courtesy, fairness, respect, and sensitivity. (SJL)

States and elucidates six ethical principles for the social studies profession. Statements include that it is the ethical responsibility of social studies professionals to maintain standards of instructional competence, provide knowledge and skills necessary for citizenship, foster citizenship rights and responsibilities, and promote free exchange…

The article lists 25 management procedures for teachers who might encounter children having uncontrolled or partially controlled seizure disorders. (DB)

Explores the larger social context within which school discipline problems occur and describes the loss of controls in the school. Discusses disciplinary measures, including punishment, and a positive approach to school discipline for students who cannot behave as expected in a normal classroom setting. (RH)

Examines the case of Thompson v Southwest School District in which a teacher was dismissed for allegedly immoral behavior. The court found that the behavior did not have a deleterious impact on the teacher's ability to teach. (IRT)

The amount of adult direction was experimentally manipulated, and its effects on social and exploratory behaviors were examined. Children from preschools with varying levels of adult-directed activity were included in the study to assess parallels in the effect of adult direction in experimental and naturally occurring school situations.…