Teachers must first become confident with their own writing before they can guide students toward being effective writers. Insight into understanding writing behavior and developing trust and control are offered. (DF)

The purpose of the present study was to (1) broaden the range of teacher behaviors to include both the use of contingent praise and contingent educational materials; (2) present a procedure efficent in terms of demands on teacher and consultant time; and (3) illustrate the delivery of services using a behavioral consultation model. (BW)

Emphasizes that too rigid a separation of educational philosophy from educational practice and inadequacies in philosophers' understanding of teaching lend support to one another. Discusses philosophers' analyses of teaching and what seems to be their underlying assumptions. (Author/RK)

Teachers at two elementary schools conducted behavior modification projects in their classrooms to verify the existence of reciprocity between the amount of reinforcement given and the amount received. Their findings, following approximately four weeks, suggest that such a relationship exists. (Author)

By training teachers to vary systematically the way in which they performed recitation strategy, it was hoped to determine (1) whether teachers can be trained to control precisely the way they teach when using that strategy and (2) whether different versions have measurably different effects on student learning. (MM)

A pilot study showed that classroom observational data can contribute to the formative evaluation of an instructional model, as well as of the learning processes and outcomes of individual students. (JY)

A study examined the participation behaviors of undergraduate students. Much of the existing literature has focused on student variables in determining participation in the classroom. Here, the focus was on instructor variables instead. Students completed questionnaires and reported their own perceptions of their participation in class as well as…

Defining teaching as "the way we bring ourselves to the learners" at the current moment, this paper describes "Enterprise Talk," a measurable, practical guide for talking to children in times of difficulty and responding with effective positives. After discussing how teachers teach (i.e., teachers model; teachers inform;…

This paper describes the Classroom Observation Form (COF), which was used to evaluate elementary and secondary school gifted education programs in Virginia and South Carolina. The study examined the nature of classroom practice and developed a database on the nature of classroom practice in multiple settings serving high ability learners across…

This study examined discipline problems arising in kindergarten through eighth grade classrooms and teachers' attempts to solve them. A total of 746 students in 35 classrooms were observed by 35 teacher-education students placed in separate classrooms in southern New Jersey. During ten 50-minute observation sessions, each student directly observed…

The purpose of this study was to examine emotional contagion in the classroom. The theory of emotional contagion predicts that people automatically mimic and synchronize expressions, vocalizations, postures, and movements with others and consequently converge emotionally as a result of the activation and/or feedback from such mimicry (Hatfield,…

Article outlines some examples of behavior shown by teachers and administrators, which tends to mar the efforts of all other educational personnel, thus giving education a bad name. (RK)

Article focused on the real heart of curriculum determinants with the accent on student and teacher interaction. (RK)