This study investigates how public school teacher of grades K-6 utilize their scheduled times free of students, excluding lunch and recess. A questionnaire that included items about a) respondents' position, b) time schedules, and c) usual duties performed during times free of students was sent to 36 participating schools. Sixty-three percent of…

The goal of North Carolina Central University's "new" program is to design a sequence of experiences that will prepare teachers who demonstrate their competence in terms of agreed-upon behaviors. The first component is divided into nine module clusters. The modules in the component relate to the job of the teacher, innovations which are…

This study attempted to determine whether parent educators in the Florida Follow Through Model were affected by their work in the program. The following changes in parent educators were studied: (1) Significant increase in feelings of self-esteem, (2) significant changes in teaching behavior, and (3) changes in life style. Self-esteem was assessed…

A nonverbal training module for a Teaching Laboratory was developed for and tested with secondary teacher-candidates enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin teacher education program. The unit, employing an awareness approach, was administered to 17 students in the experimental group immediately preceding the last of a series of required…

Reported is a study designed to examine potential explanations for the decline in the percentage of students who enroll in high school physics. Two kinds of factors were assessed: students' stated perceptions of science teaching and teachers and the difficulty components of the science curriculum (particularly the reading level of textbooks and…

This presentation is rooted in several years of multidimensional research into the behavior of teacher and pupils; that is, more than a single technique is used simultaneously, each assessing a different dimension of the interaction. One promising outcome of findings is the possibility of measuring pupil growth by means of observational systems.…

This questionnaire, used to obtain pupils' perceptions concerning their peers and their teacher's expectations and treatment of pupils, consists of 23 items to be answered with pupils' names. (For related document, see TM 003 081.) (KM)

Based on the assumption that most science teachers are fairly comfortable and well informed in the cognitive area, the author concentrates on the presentation of man as an emotional and a feeling creature. An attempt is made to describe how perceptions, values, and feelings affect him and how he attempts to protect or reveal himself. In relation…

One hundred and five teacher trainees participated in different types of student teaching. The Teacher Perception Q Sort was used to evaluate changes in perception. Five factors were measured: a) self revealing/self concealing, b) learner/teacher centeredness, c) broad/narrow view of teaching, d) process/facts oriented, e) freeing/controlling…

In an effort to develop behavioral objectives for students of Phoenix Indian High School, project staff attempted to identify student behavioral outcomes which would serve as guidelines for total school program development, with emphasis on pupil personnel services. Preparation of such guidelines involves not so much formulation of specific…

A self-assessment inventory of teaching competencies was devised for use by student teachers. The instrument was administered to 15 seniors prior to a methods course and student teaching and again after student teaching. Factor analysis of the pre- and posttest scores revealed five dimensions accounting for 77 and 68 percent of the variance,…

Giving sixth-grade teachers information as to how their pupils described their actual and their ideal teacher on 12 items of teacher behavior significantly changed in the direction of the pupils' initial ratings of their ideal teacher, and also made the teachers more accurate in predicting their pupils' descriptions of the teacher. Subjects of the…

This paper focuses on using a systems approach to develop supervisory conference strategies to be tested in constructed and controlled teaching-supervisory situations. This involves identifying performance objectives through a functional analysis of teaching and analyzing the interacting and interdependent variables. It is then necessary to…

This investigation was designed to determine the effects of a perceptual modeling concept on the verbal behaviors of student teachers in their student teaching experience. The major objectives were 1) to determine the effects on verbal behavior of a videotape versus a verbal presentation of an interaction analysis system, and 2) to identify those…

An ongoing behavioral model for implementing staff development and evaluation procedures is proposed, which systematically focuses on assessing and facilitating behavioral change in the classroom and enables the educational executive to assess what is actually happening there. The administrator is thus provided with the necessary information to…