The relationships among successful student teaching experiences, perceptions of self-competence, commitment, and teaching behavior are explored. Implications for preservice teacher education are drawn. (JMF)

Causes of school violence and possible solutions to the problem are explored. School size, spirit, and climate, and student and teacher attitudes contribute to school security. (JD)

College teachers were evaluated as to appeal, competence, delivery, and teaching effectiveness and their presentations were analyzed to identify features of humor usage. Correlation coefficients were computed between frequency of use of various types of humor and students' evaluations of their professors. Results indicated differences between male…

An overview of studies on the role of talk in student learning. (RL)

Feedback may be helpful in teacher training and supervision. A study indicates that, on the basis of student feedback, student teachers significantly changed their teaching styles across five dimensions. (CJ)

Examines two factors in social class bias in schooling: (1) the bias of school personnel as reflected in teacher classroom behavior and ability grouping decisions; and (2) the schools' meritocratic ideology. (EF)

Indicates that a teacher's responses to errors made by students in oral reading are related to that teacher's theoretical orientation as well as to the type of error made. (HOD)

Results indicate that teachers' activities are affected by their work-value orientations. Further, the bureaucratic orientation was not found to be in conflict with cosmopolitan or local values, but rather complementary to the local orientation in its effect on teachers' activity. (Author/IRT)

Examines the dynamics of the formation of impressions that teachers and pupils have of one another and suggests that the time pupils take to complete a teacher-directed task may be a nonverbal component in the formation of teachers' impressions. (Author/MP)

Urges writing teachers to get back to these basics: valuing writing and enthusiasm for writing, showing interest in and responsiveness to students as writers, encouraging reading for pleasure, making use of insights into the writing process, and helping students develop self-editing that sharpens ideas while eliminating mechanical errors. (RL)

Ways of dealing with requests or demands for the teacher's attention from outside the teacher group activity are discussed. (MJB)

An example is given of a teacher's discipline methods adversely affecting a child's self-esteem. (JD)

Investigates a number of factors underlying junior- and senior-high science teachers' beliefs and behaviors. A Science Classroom Behavior Q-Sort was developed and administered to 67 teachers. Analysis of results sorted teachers into three distinct groups; tables list the five highest and five most distinctive beliefs of each group. (CS)

This study attempted to determine if teachers discriminate against female learners of mathematics. More than 1000 secondary mathematics teachers were asked to grade four geometry proofs. Student sex and ability were the independent variables. Analysis yielded no significant F ratios for either of the main effects or their interaction. (Author/MK)

An observational instrument was used to study the teaching behavior of physical education teachers. Analysis indicated that teachers showed low percentages of positive and negative behavior and high percentages of managing and monitoring behavior. (Author)