Published reports of curriculum innovation were used to develop an analysis of factors contributing to teacher reaction to change proposals. Premised on the theory that a more thorough understanding of naturally existing mechanisms operating in school environments would enhance the development of effective change strategies, the analysis focused…

This document is the transcript of a weekly radio "magazine" program devoted to coverage of news, features, policy, and people in the field of education. Discussion topics include: (1) reasons for becoming a teacher; (2) characteristics of a good teacher; (3) a listener's letter on a bad teacher; (4) rememberances of best and worst teachers; (5) a…

A study in which Australian university students responded to a teacher- and course-evaluation questionnaire showed that student feedback does have a significant effect on attitudes and performance and that feedback effects do generalize to other teaching situations. (JT)

Two experiments investigated the relationship between nonverbal behavior and the racial composition of a teacher-student dyad. Both White and Black teachers behaved nonverbally more positively to a student of their own race than to a student of the other race, even though student performance was controlled. (Author/RD)

Five critical components of teacher morale are outlined: administrative leadership, administrative concern, personal interaction, opportunity for input, and professional growth. For each component, the author lists behavioral symptoms of a morale problem and ways the administrator can diagnose the difficulty and prescribe a solution. (SJL)

Teachers can learn to describe unacceptable student behavior, without judging it, and to define classroom conflicts as problems to be solved, not battles to be won. Two studies demonstrate that this type of democratic classroom environment decreases misbehavior and absenteeism. (SJL)

Presented as a fairy tale with the characters of Snow White and the seven dwarves, this paper points out some of the professional, emotional, and health characteristics and problems of individual teachers, and ways an administrator might deal with them. (SJL)

A three-school study suggests that more intensive teacher effort, more attention to contriving successful pupil reading experiences, and freer delivery of "payoffs" to pupils who are reading, offer the possibility of modifying pupil attitudes about reading. (Author/RL)

This article reports on research instruments administered to junior high school students from Australia, Ohio, and Tennessee studying student responses to descriptions of selected teacher behaviors relating to teacher clarity. Two primary and two secondary factors that relate to teacher clarity are identified. (JMF)

There is no component of the school program that has as its declared objective the enhancement of the health and quality of life of the child, the elimination of health problems that impede learning, and the prevention of disease and illness. The author finds this situation objectionable. (MM)

This case study of a project designed to change a junior high school's approach to discipline focuses on the change facilitators' interventions in implementing the innovation. Data assessing how teachers change are presented and discussed in relation to the intervention data. (JMF)

Self-esteem of 350 seventh-grade students from open and traditional elementary schools was measured. The seven open and eight traditional classes represented significantly different treatment groups. No group differences in self-esteem were found, nor were effects found for socioeconomic status, IQ, or sibling position. Girls had higher…

Researchers perceived that teachers became more aware of their teaching behaviors, more aroused about being able to alter behaviors, and more conscientious about planning for the kinds of behaviors they wish to exhibit in a given situation as a result of the availability of a computer program (Analysis of Teaching Behavior). (MM)

Four normal preschool children and four with comprehensive academic and behavior problems were taught to judge the quality of their academic work in a classroom, and to prompt or cue their teachers to comment about the quality of that work. (Author)

Suggestions for principals to help teachers counter the energy drain caused by teaching, the limited technology of teaching that leads to self-doubt, and the aloneness of teaching. (Author/MLF)