A study examined how reading teachers' reading habits impacted their teaching practices. Subjects, 625 teachers who attended the Book and Author Luncheon at the 1993 International Reading Association in San Antonio, completed a survey. Teachers represented all 50 states and Canada. Results indicated that: (1) the majority of the teachers viewed…

Built on preliminary findings emerging from an ongoing research project, this paper examines student grouping practices from an institutional-theory perspective. The study, based on interviews with 10 teachers, examines how teachers explain their reasons for grouping students and how they account for their grouping actions. The majority base their…

This paper reviews recent research concerning the relationship between teachers' theoretical orientation about reading and their reading instructional practices. The paper first describes three major clusters of theoretical reading instructional approaches: phonics orientation, skills orientation, and whole language orientation. It then reviews…

Four teachers at Fort Lewis College, Colorado, use humor to send messages which "leap frog" resistance to the new and different, and go directly to the preconscious. The power in these humorous conceptual leaps is that the entering information sticks to the anger and passions of the human psyche, thus fostering retention. Linda Mack, a…

Focusing on suggestions about selecting media for use by teachers, this paper summarizes a follow-up qualitative research study on a seventh grade teacher's approach to the selection of print and non-print media and presents a revised critical schema for such selection. The paper notes that the follow-up study indicated that the expression of…

Kenneth Burke's Dramatism, as a "meta-perspective," encourages a liberating awareness of the shortcomings of all rhetorics by upholding a "comic frame" that exhorts commitment without dogmatism, tolerance without uncritical relativism. Teachers of rhetoric can use a liberating comic frame that acknowledges the recalcitrance of…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of high versus low teacher affect and active versus passive student activities during music listening on high school students' attending behavior. Ninth-, 10th-, 11th-, and 12th-grade general music students (N=26) from two different high schools participated in four short listening lessons.…

An exploratory study examined how gender might be connected with differences in how teachers of basic writing talk about their version of the course which David Bartholomae and Anthony Petrosky describe in their book "Facts, Counterfacts, and Artifact: Theory and Method for a Reading and Writing Course." Subjects, five male and five…

The effects of high versus low teacher control strategies on student objectives in a quasi-simulation University Career Game were studied. Results showed that high-control subjects made significantly more goal choices for educational efficiency, while low-control subjects made significantly more choices favoring personal and social growth.…

Teachers at all levels of education can respond with positive or with negative comments to the behavior of students. The author makes a strong case for accentuating the positive. (Editor)

In teaching adults, it is important to break the automatism of traditional school procedures, and to create a climate of communication. The teacher should be primarily an "animator" who stimulates the group to take initiative in organizing and planning the course (their "apprenticeship"). (Text is in French.) (IFS/WGA)

A self-administered rating scale and an observational schedule were developed to assess the beliefs and behavior of early childhood teachers in relation to constructs derived from Piagetian cognitive developmental theory and operant learning theory. (Editor)

Author attempted to reconcile his understanding of open education with the behaviors he saw and the labels he heard. (Author/RK)

Through a variety of methods teachers in a British teachers' college became aware of their own behavioral traits and how some could be controlled, others accentuated. Some of the exercises they used are discussed in this article. (Author/RK)