The environment of 60 to 70 preschoolers and patterns of maltreatment are examined. Reviews prevailing attitudes toward children and staff members' covert forms of maltreatment such as overemphasis on academic skills, overreliance on packaged materials, and dislike of particular children. Overt maltreatment is described (including emotional abuse…

Behaviors of 16 teachers who had a day to day contact with 23 physically handicapped, mainstreamed high schoolers were observed and categorized. Data revealed that teachers spent significantly more time, on average, assisting the handicapped students. (CL)

To a large extent, quality education depends on the availability of teachers who inspire students to overcome academic or economic disadvantages. This article raises questions about the importance of leadership style of teachers of disadvantaged vocational students. (Author)

Presents guidelines that help teachers plan how to assist students during a writing lesson. Special emphasis is given to facilitative teaching activities such as reviewing previous instruction, orienting students to the writing task, and evaluating students' skills and ideas. (RH)

Studies the relationship between the ways British elementary teachers maintain classroom order and use classroom space. Attention is specifically focused on how teachers use verbal directives to manipulate children's use of space to impose on them particular definitions of educational order and to discipline them. (Author/AM)

Suggests tips for maintaining discipline in secondary music classes. Tips cover teacher behavior, classroom organization, and lesson pacing. (AM)

The qualities necessary for an individual to participate in a performance group are the same qualities as those needed in the classroom. Teachers must satisfy the student's needs for security, fulfillment, sharing, and caring. (Author/AM)

This study investigates whether college students can accurately distinguish between lessons taught in clear and unclear manners and what the effect of a low clarity lesson is on achievement at the knowledge (recall) level. Concluded that students can distinguish between high and low clarity lessons and that there is no causal relationship between…

Reports on two studies which examined the effect of teacher enthusiasm on the social studies achievement of seventh-grade students. The purpose of the first study was to determine whether three levels of teacher enthusiasms would produce corresponding differences in social studies achievement. The second study was an attempt to replicate the…

Desirable and undesirable verbal behaviors of teachers are examined. (JD)

Argues that Marxist extremists should not be allowed to teach in public institutions. The internal contradictions in the behavior of contemporary Marxist educational activists who receive all of the benefits of their membership in the educational elite while demanding the overthrow of capitalist societies is examined. (AM)

Constructs a theoretical model for analyzing the social context and genesis of teacher and student classroom-coping strategies. The author develops the model by integrating the macrofactors identified by Andy Hargreaves and the microfactors identified by Peter Woods that influence classroom-coping strategies. (AM)

Describes the National Day Care Home Study (NDCHS), a study of sponsored, regulated, and unregulated family day care homes in Philadelphia, San Antonio, and Los Angeles. Results of the study are discussed. (Author/RH)

Offers a list of nonthreatening questions to use in determining why a large number of students are doing unsatisfactory work in one teacher's class. Gives guidelines for the administrator's use of the information gained, including a chart showing how to analyze course offerings and grades. (WD)

The author distinguishes between corporal punishment and bodily contact or corporal communication in special education. Policies are suggested which make available needed stimulation and negative reinforcement but guard against abuse. (CL)