Five hundred delegates from 50 nations met in Berlin, July 30-August 6, at the 24th annual Assembly of the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession (WCOTP). The theme of the 1975 Assembly was "Teachers and the Political Process". Discussion brought out some restrictions placed upon teachers by their respective governments.…

Describes the increasingly hostile and complicated parent and student behavior which teacher education must currently prepare teachers to cope with. (CD)

Examines the effects of class size, physical space, and activity centers on a variety of child and teacher behaviors in preschool classrooms. (RB)

The educator should always strive to use only "emancipative" language: not authoritarian, but rather aimed at developing maturity and cooperation on the matter in hand. It should be pertinent, consistent, comprehensible, reversible, and practice-oriented. It is consciously undertaken, normative behavior, oriented toward political and social…

Article focused on the teaching behaviors which facilitate successful student inquiry. (Author/RK)

Article suggested that educators keep up to date on children's rights, both the legal and human ones. (Editor/RK)

Suggestions are listed for teacher behavior and classroom rules intended to maintain order and establish good work habits. (RM)

The purpose of this study was to learn about teachers' thinking processes as they attempted to implement in their classrooms two recently acquired models of teaching. The first, the concept attainment strategy, focused on having students categorize people, places, or events into classes according to certain cues provided by positive or negative…

This paper reports on a small, exploratory study which compared the perceptions and thinking of secondary school teachers in three countries--England, West Germany, and the United States--regarding teaching practice and several other factors which are related to the conduct of good practice. The study was conducted by the…

The purpose of this study was to describe preschool teachers' interventions during children's free play. A Weberian sociological framework was used to examine (1) what happens when teachers intervene into children's play, (2) teachers' beliefs and thus their decisions about play, and (3) the relationship between these issues. Three preschool…

This study explored the issue of whether kindergartens and child care centers differed in terms of educational and caregiving components. Participants were 60 children between 3 and 4 years of age who attended child care centers or kindergartens in Dunedin, New Zealand, and 25 staff members of the programs. Interval-type observations of teachers'…

The common assumption that teacher evaluation has a positive impact on the improvement of teaching is challenged. Critical challenges to the assumed contribution of teacher evaluation to learning originate from at least three areas of scholarly work: (1) revisionist/Marxist literature, which describes educational structures including teacher…

This study sought to describe, at the level of practice, one teacher's use of humanism in the classroom. Methods of participant observation were used to capture reflective contrasts between the subject's intended behavior (by formal and informal interviews), actual behavior (by direct observation), and ideal behavior (by readings from humanist…