Attitudes of teachers toward bi-racial situations seem to be an added variable in the praise-criticism dimension of teacher behavior. Classes in which the teacher's race differs from that of the pupils have a more positive situation, which aids in pupil motivation. (Author)

Description of an experience-oriented methods course in the biological sciences for prospective teachers at Syracuse University. Activities include observing and evaluating teaching experiences, designing biology laboratory experiments, developing test items and learning specific biological techniques. Bibliography. (LC)

Presents the procedures, results, and implications of a study designed to (1) develop a reliable category system and method of encoding biology teacher behaviors and (2) use the developed category system and the method of encoding to obtain an objective description of the classroom behaviors of biology teachers. (LC)

The hypothesis that a link exists between a female teacher's sex-role ideology and her expression of sexuality in the classroom was tested. The classroom behavior of three female high school teachers, with traditional, ambivalent, and androgenous sex-role ideologies, was studied using ethnographic observation methods. (AM)

Uses Meadian and critical Marxist concepts to identify 16 dilemmas--grouped into dilemmas of control, curriculum, and societal values--that reflect common contradictions of teaching and learning in schools. Characterizes by types of patterns the attempts of teachers to resolve institutional contradictions. (JW)

Argues that differences in instruction influence differences in students' reading abilities as much as do variations in individual learning styles or aptitudes. Suggests ideas for enhancing instruction of poor readers. (RH)

Investigates the effects of one teacher's structuring and reacting behaviors on 53 second graders' learning of factual materials. Four treatment groups were established: high structuring and high reacting, high structuring and low reacting, low structuring and high reacting, and low structuring and low reacting. (RH)

Events following children's imitation were observed. In the first study, immediate imitation of peers was observed during free play in four groups of preschoolers 23 months to 5 years of age. In the second study, immediate imitation of both peers and adults was observed in six groups of preschoolers 27 months to 5 years of age. (Author/RH)

Argues that early classroom experience can be regarded as a "hidden pedagogy" which exerts a stronger influence on new teachers' perceptions of their jobs than the ideas taught in teacher education programs. Teachers believe that to be successful they must establish classroom control and maintain the privacy of the situation. (AM)

Bruce Brombacher, 1982's Teacher of the Year from Jones Junior High School in Upper Arlington, Ohio, discusses his reasons for teaching, teaching methods, and his role as a teacher. (JOW)

Measurement training had little general effect on either the behavior of two teachers or of their multihandicapped deaf students. However, after programing training, teachers increased their program writing and correct use of behavior modification procedures and generalized this training across pupils and target behaviors. (Author)

Reviews research concerning how teachers determine the content their students learn and discusses both the conscious decision making involved in selecting curriculum and the unwitting reductions and distortions introduced into intended curriculum in the process of attempting to teach. (Author/MP)

Explores teachers' weaknesses that encourage discipline problems within the classroom: teaching style, personality problems, overreacting, friendship (student/teacher relationships), mass punishment, ignoring cries for help, reward centers, false promise of punishment, and "breaking the student's spirit" approach. Provides checklist for teachers…

A question-answer format on how specific teacher behaviors influence students' acquisition of information, ability to make information meaningful, and application of meaning to new situations. (Author/MLF)