Teachers tend to give directions that their pupils can follow correctly. Children are better able to process increasingly complex directions as they get older. (Authors/CJ)

Until recently, teacher behaviors as conceptualized by educational researchers were not consistent with teachers' own views of effective teaching. Explicit attention has to be devoted to the characteristics of the teacher so that changes or adoptions of new procedures will be congruent with the teacher's own ideas and attitudes. (JN)

Stresses increasing need for educators to evaluate and modify their attitudes and behavior as sex role models, in order to avoid negative influences for students, in terms of achievement, career, marriage, and general psychological well-being. (JD)

This article calls for a restructuring of teacher education programs and some critical changes in schools themselves to provide a more realistic program of teacher preparation. (JMF)

Presents ideas for distributive education teachers to use in the classroom to motivate students to learn, listing 11 teacher behaviors which contribute to a positive classroom climate and 16 specific recommendations for student motivation activities. (MF)

Relates experiences in teaching children's literature to practicing teachers; suggests that teacher-students be put through exactly the same experiences as they will ask their pupils to go through, and reports that it is very effective to have teacher-students work in teams to explore literary texts or teaching problems. (GT)

Examples are given of how a careless or overly personal sex education instructor can endanger an entire school program. (LH)

Uses a Transactional Analysis (TA) model to analyze destructive classroom interaction patterns between teacher and student. Suggests ways that teachers can prevent manipulative interpersonal games from allowing the learning situation to deteriorate. (GC)

Examines the effect of classroom environment on teaching and learning behaviors of children. Second-, third-, and fourth- grade elementary school classrooms were selected for this study. (MP)

Determined if student teachers experience role conflict, based on a comparison of cognitions held for selected student teachers' behaviors by members of three school-related social positions. The greatest disparity was over curriculum and planning. (Author)

Outlines four observational tools which child care administrators can use for evaluating their caregivers. (MP)

Three studies attempting to define teacher clarity are described. In each case students are asked to rate teacher behaviors in terms of clear or unclear behaviors. The results of each study indicate categories of characteristics of teacher clarity. (JMF)

Over 100 systems have been developed that permit the recording and categorizing of teacher and student behavior. The cognitive processes of practicing teachers' decision making must be studied in order to deduce a common base whereby teaching decisions could be improved. (Author/JKS)

First- and second-grade teachers were assigned to one of four conditions representing variations in consultation where they were required to teach a hypothetical child to add. Results suggested that behavioral consultation with task analysis was associated with significantly more teaching success than was control, medical model, and behavioral…

Examines the development and usefulness of the Elementary Science Teachers' Preferences (ESTP) test. Findings suggest that this instrument is useful and valid in determining differences between teaching preferences of teacher-centered and student-centered teachers. Findings also indicate that polarized labeling of teachers is inappropriate. (MA)