The Marcus School staff feels that the best approach to discipline is a preventive one--the provision of a variety of educational and environmental alternatives that will interest, challenge, and motivate the pupil. (Author)

Examples of teacher behavior in various classrooms were filmed and edited to illustrate six specific types of behaviors: approving, disapproving, probing, informing, reproductive questioning, and productive questioning. (Author)

Significant reduction of seizures in an 11-year-old girl was achieved through a contingency management program implemented by her classroom teacher. The program was designed to shift the focus from her actual seizures to her seizure-free time periods. Seizures diminished over the total treatment period. (Author)

The study hypothesized that no differences in ratings on selected teaching performance criteria exist among three groups of student teachers based on cumulative grade point averages. The supervising teachers assigned the performance ratings. Significant differences among the groups were found on three of the nine performance criteria under…

Observational data and survey information were collected on student behavior problems and discipline policies in a large suburban high school. Analysis of the data indicated that many of the concerns of teachers and administrators centered more around adult behavior than student behavior. (Author)

Like the successful psychotherapist, the successful composition teacher is one who communicates empathy, unconditional positive regard, and self-congruence. (DD)

This study of teacher behavior in four classrooms reveals that, in the dimension of management, teachers looked rather alike. Where differences did exist, they seemed to be determined by the individual personality and philosophy of the teacher rather than by institutional contraints, which dictated the management core. (Author/MC)

This article outlines the three contrasting ideologies of student management, and presents the teacher behavior continium that is organized around the methods and strategies of these approaches. Specific techniques are suggested for the counselor to offer the teacher in determining what might work best with a particular youngster. (LPG)

Describes a Virginia Western Community College two-year follow-up of its developmental mathematics students, revealing that Blacks and males enrolled in and failed developmental mathematics at significantly higher rates than Whites and females; female instructors had a higher pass rate; graduates were prepared for all college math courses except…

Describes four possible ways to teach science: the formal, the indirect, the interpersonal, and the integrative. Provides examples of science lessons which illustrate each of these ways of teaching. (PEB)

Describes the stages that students go through when they are first introduced to self-directed learning and lists specific strategies teachers can use to help students through the crises. (IRT)

Findings indicate that students whose teachers support their competence to make classroom decisions, compared to students whose teachers do not, are confident and more committed to making classroom decisions. Students in a cooperative learning structure, compared to those in a competitive one, expect enjoyable and productive decision-making…

An epistemological interpretation of the Campbell and Fiske model is offered to show its usefulness in validating classroom observation instruments. This interpretation is used to critique a recent validation study and is then applied to the problem of validating the construct "View of Science", using a classroom observation instrument.…

As the age of the "typical" teacher increases, there is a greater need for teacher renewal; three approaches to teacher renewal are examined. (MM)

The ruling from Strasbourg that the use of the birch is "degrading", and an assault on "a person's dignity and physical integrity", has again focused attention on corporal punishment in schools. Here a probationary teacher describes his feelings about teaching in a school where every week two children are caned, five slippered, and forty smacked…