This report determines the extent of culture shock a white teacher from a typically middle-class school would experience when transferred to inner-city schools. Further investigation concerned how those teachers reacted to cope with culture shock. Thirty-three white elementary teachers were involuntarily transferred to six inner-city schools in an…

One of the implied characteristics of competency-based teacher education is the allegedly systematic nature of the program. Attempts have been made to place CBTE within some philosophical tradition. But CBTE is actually a theoretically based teaching strategy employing parts of teaching theory, primarily prescriptive, and learning theory,…

As part of a larger study, the nature of the teacher-child relationship was examined in a random sample of 50 day care centers in Los Angeles County. Data were obtained by observation of teacher-child interaction and supplemented by interviews with directors and teachers. The groups of variables examined were: teacher performance, structural…

Changes that occur within the belief systems of student teachers were investigated with respect to changes in authoritarianism, dogmatism or open/closed-mindedness, Machiavellianism, and values. Participants were 173 Central Michigan University elementary and secondary education majors. The control group consisted of 56 education majors; the…

This study explored the relationship between changes in student classroom behavior and teacher behavior. More specifically, teacher responses to students were evaluated as a function of systematic changes in the students' classroom behavior. The investigation was conducted in a fifth-grade classroom of a primary school located in a residential,…

The classroom teacher should be proficient in the use of the operant conditioning principles of positive reinforcement and extinction. An eight-step outline of one approach to modifying classroom behavior uses and builds on these principles. People have been afraid to use scientific knowledge of human behavior because of their fear of being…

The author summarizes his observations of interactions in two classes of an individualized, self-paced, laboratory-based high school science course for students who normally do not take physics or chemistry. Based on these and other observations of classroom behavior of teachers and pupils the author postulates that two agendas are operative in…

Greater student satisfaction, trust, and self-directed learning may result if the teacher uses questioning, clarifying and accepting behaviors for both student feedback about the effectiveness of the teacher's communication behavior (instructional metacommunication) and about the content presented; instructional metacommunication will enable…

Research into three major aspects of elementary school climate are reported in this paper. The first aspect concerns distinct conditions of similarity and variance among elementary schools as perceived by students. Differences between how students and teachers review schooling are investigated. Finally, the relationship between behavior of the…

This empirical study evaluated several factors believed to be related to job satisfaction: teachers' own attitudes toward pupil control, teachers' perceptions of their colleagues and, principals' attitudes toward pupil control. Coefficients of correlation,, t-tests of selected variables, and multivariate regression techniques were used in testing…

Almost since schools began in America, boys have been identified as the primary source of misbehavior by teachers and administrators. In addition, boys constitute the greatest percentage of those students who are underachieving and failing. This paper discusses the problems of misbehavior, underachievement, and related conditions; explores the two…

It was the purpose of this study to determine what teachers perceive to be the most effective behaviors supervisors employ in the individual conference setting. Results were compared with an earlier study (Gordon, 1973 "Educational Leadership").

Little agreement as to criteria for evaluating college teaching was found in a literature review. A list of 10 activities and faculty behaviors that can be more reliably and validly evaluated by fellow colleagues than by students or administrators is presented. Recommendations for upgrading colleague evaluation of teaching are made. (JT)

The results of this study showed that the general climate in school is one conducive to the establishment of a comprehensive smoking education program. The results also indicated that teachers' attitudes and behavior towards smoking education were closely related to their smoking behavior. (RC)

This article sets forth the effects upon teachers produced by implementation of a non-graded secondary teaching environment. The data should prove useful as a vehicle for pre-program discussion prior to initiation of non-graded secondary programs, and for sensitizing administrators to the primary personnel reactions and conflicts that a non-graded…