A language teaching record scheme that is intended to describe second language teaching as it occurs in a variety of teaching settings without reference to global methods is presented. (Author/HP)

Examines the interaction between the teacher and the student who is a discipline problem. Describes how a teacher can determine if he is contributing to classroom discipline problems by his teacher-learner interaction. (Author/RK)

The author discusses competency-based teacher education and the disagreements about what "competent" means. Among his examples is the Dilemma of the Ditto: can teachers be "competent" without knowing how to run a ditto machine? This is really a profound question because it represents an entire class of questions. (MF)

Lee Canter is an instructor on the extension faculty of California State University at Fullerton. He mixes pep talks and common sense with a course of behavior modification and body language designed to change teachers into "assertive" teachers. At the Bridge International School in Denver foreign students learn English and also how to…

Reports a study of the effect of source of feedback on the attitudes and ability of 92 preservice elementary teachers to employ specific teacher behaviors. Results indicate that source of feedback, or no feedback, made no difference in the demonstration of specific behaviors. (SL)

Outlined are biological, sociological, and conscious and unconscious psychological factors involved in stealing, and discussed are appropriate teacher responses to stealing by students. (CL)

The hypothesis that teachers criticize low-expectation students in order to control reinforcement schedules was tested. Teacher expectation, teacher perception of control, criticism of students, academic behavior, and student perception of teacher response to student effort were examined in six primary grade classes. Implications concerning…

After reporting the results of a survey of vocational teacher attitudes toward handicapped individuals, the author discusses the importance and implications of teacher attitude toward mainstreaming the handicapped. Viewing the teacher as a behavior model, the author points out the major factors influencing attitudes, describes methods for changing…

Offers a model for teacher education programs that will facilitate the development of a teacher with the capacity to analyze a given situation (large or small) and respond on the basis of knowledge and understanding. (Author/RK)

Possible bases for student influence over teachers are examined. Since teachers cannot avoid being influenced by students, it is important for them to consciously select the kinds of influence efforts to which they will respond. (MJB)

Microteaching experience was sufficient to train graduate education students to a significant level of competency. However, once they moved into a regular student teaching setting, their exhibition of the original target skills was dependent upon intervention by their cooperating teachers. (Author/MV)

Results of this naturalistic study indicate that feelings and reactions of pupils to a classmate's death may be facilitated or hindered by behavior of adults involved. The most powerful hindrance is the teacher's denial of the child's capacity to deal with death. (Author)

In the present study, candidate behavior was conceived as a function of the richness of the interpersonal repertoire brought to the situation of candidacy and of contextual properties of the situation itself. (Author/IRT)

Reports on findings that suggest that both the teaching and learning of reading are theoretically based and that it is more productive to look at reading instruction in terms of theoretical orientation than in terms of reading approaches. (GW)

This study examines the relationship between teachers' and students' priorities regarding instructional practices and the actual occurrence of these practices in the classroom. A Likert-type inventory provided the data. Levels of agreement varied. The validity of the results and their implications for curriculum evaluation and instruction are…