Education must be designed so that it flows naturally in accordance with our country's principles. (MM)

Article presented a true story of how two cities ran testing programs and the lessons that can be learned from their failures. (Editor/RK)

Describes a study that compared the teaching behavior of teachers in an institution for delinquent children to that of teachers in urban junior high schools. (JG)

Investigated was growth in creativity under two different teacher behavioral strategies (student-structured and teacher-structured learning). Results indicated that students in a nondirective, student-structured science class made significant gains in figural creativity with no loss or gain in student verbal creativity. (BT)

Relates various experiences that illustrate one teacher's way of dealing with teaching problems common in inner-city schools. (MLH)

The teacher educator must look for qualities of openmindedness, flexibility, and high moral standards in prospective teachers since maladjusted persons can damage students. (JD)

Before researchers can adequately establish empirical relationships between teacher behavior as an independent variable and student achievement as a dependent variable, when studying teacher effectiveness, they must deal with the problems of instrumentation, methodology, and statistics. (MM)

The discussion of three impediments associated with scientific inquiry into the nature of teacher effects demonstrates that some of the methodological obstacles confronting educational research can be overcome and that methodologically respectable teacher-effects research can be conducted. (MM)

Once teachers are aware of and thus able to monitor particular behavior, they begin to act in accordance with their beliefs about optimal teaching; if discrepancies between their present behavior and their stated goals are real, most teachers will change their behavior immediately. (MM)

Several papers are summarized dealing with experimental studies of questioning, tutoring, program implementation, generic and specific teaching skills, and teaching low SES backgrounds. (MM)

This report reviews and summarizes the findings of a research and development project investigating effective pedagogy using Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in literacy and numeracy in primary schools in Great Britain. It also provides information about the main stages of the research process and the model of teaching and learning…

This study explored what first grade children say and know about the use of "word walls." Sixty-three first graders and their three teachers were interviewed about their perceptions and use of the word wall. Interview answers showed that the students in this study used the word wall for writing and spelling words and teacher directed…

Most students prefer visual input--through normal development or instructional reinforcement--yet, most teachers provide information to be taken in by listening. This mismatch can confound the learning process. To determine how well teachers listen and what their preferences might be, more than 300 Arkansas educators (predominantly female public…

A study examined technology gaps in rural schools and computer accessibility and Internet use by teachers. Findings from surveys of 205 teachers in the rural Ozarks region of Missouri indicate significant differences in Internet accessibility among rural schools with a low, middle, or high technology status; and no significant interaction effects…