Poses a series of reflective questions regarding the establishment of honest moral attitudes and activity in the classroom. Urges teachers to examine the motivation and methods behind their rules of order and honesty; how they reward honesty and punish cheating; and how they promote honesty and justice through their behavior. (DMM)

Explains how Dr. Ronald R. Edmonds discovered five characteristics common to 55 United States schools exhibiting academic effectiveness. Explains the characteristics: large portion of principal's time spent in classrooms, global understanding of school's major purpose, orderly school climate, teacher behavior, and close monitoring of students…

This series of articles contains three research summaries entitled: (1) "Women Entering Teaching: Changes in the Preservice Population"; (2) "Tomorrow's Teachers: Attitudes toward Sex-Affirmative Teaching and Professional Behaviors"; and (3) "Jewel Tea and Academe" (about women faculty in higher education and the value of mentors.) (JMK)

Provides a description of a time-on-task workshop series and the effects on several of the teacher participants. (HOD)

Declares that teachers must act and speak in support of principles they teach in the classroom--invention, seriousness, and sharing ideas. (CRH)

A review of the essentials of ability formation theory is followed by a review of recent research relevant to the question of how students develop conceptions of their abilities. The ways in which ability formation theory may be refined on the basis of recent findings regarding classroom process are discussed. (PN)

Discusses educational research related to time students spend listening and implications research findings should have on teachers' methods and roles. Development of teacher training programs to improve listening behaviors, how listening should be developed across the curriculum, and how teachers serve as listening role models are suggested. (MBR)

Evidence relating to the impact on British schools of the Nuffield 0-level Biology Project is examined, particularly that related to possible changes in teaching style. Explanations for the persistence of didactic teaching are also discussed. (Author)

Because research shows that children model themselves after the adults around them, the importance of the teacher as a role model is emphasized. Teachers and students should examine the lives and actions of role models of empathic behavior, and children need to become involved in their own prosocial action projects. (RM)

A study compared students' evaluation of their teachers with other means of teacher evaluation and also examined how student characteristics and attitudes, along with different types of teacher behavior, influenced students' ratings. In general, evaluations by the sixth-grade students appeared to be reliable and useful measures of teacher…

The effect of pupils' reading miscues and achievement levels on their teachers' prompting decisions was examined in a study involving teacher trainees and elementary school special education students. Teachers were actively engaged in decision making, and although pupil traits affected teachers' decisions, teaching moves were sometimes…

This article reviews research on the treatment of boys and girls by male and female elementary school teachers. Little support is found for a general hypothesis that male teachers, when compared with female teachers, improve boys' academic achievement and reduce the number of problems boys experience in elementary school. (SB)

This paper considers the phenomenon of teacher-student friendships in the American high school. (MM)

This investigation presents information concerning the relationship of stability of teacher behavior to teacher effectiveness and teacher responsiveness to inservice training. (DMT)

Study of 24 second and third grade teachers to determine what characteristics and behaviors result in effective teaching. Results indicate that successful classroom performance is related to a highly autonomous attitude, preference for pragmatic activities, lecturing half the class time, having an abstract conceptual structure and the teacher…