This study of interpersonal relationships between teachers, principals, and students finds that attitudes of teachers and principals toward children are correlated positively although pupils' and principals' ratings of teachers lack significant correlation. (JH)

Based upon a paper at annual convention of National Council of Teachers of English (59th, Washington, D.C., November 28, 1969). (SW)

A recounting of some of the author's experiences the first year of her return to teaching high school English, with tongue-in-cheek advice to colleagues. (RD)

Study supported by a grant from the U.S. Office of Education.

A model presented here offers a framework within which supervisors can respond to differences in teachers by considering relationships among their personal needs, role expectations, and job behavior. (JM)

A dialogue, in which one curriculum theorist tries to understand how another curriculum theorist teaches curriculum theory, is presented. The dialogue shares worthwhile approaches to teaching curriculum theory and explores assumptions that lie behind the problems of teaching curriculum theory. Implications evolving from the dialogue are discussed.…

A study examined the relationship between teachers' theoretical orientations toward reading and the verbal feedback they give to students during guided oral reading. A major finding is that teachers' beliefs and behavior vary with the instructional situation; that is, teachers hold different beliefs for different student ability groups.…

Documents and journal articles in the ERIC databases are listed which explore relationships between teachers' theoretical orientations and feedback to students during oral reading. Specifically, the research concerns findings from the Theoretical Orientation to Reading Profile, the Propositions about Reading Instruction Profile, and the Feedback…

Researchers used simultaneous feedback, a means of modifying behavior through verbal cues transmitted via a transistorized ear plug, to improve the teaching skills of university faculty engaged in the act of teaching. Faculty identified areas they wished to improve after viewing videotapes of their teaching. (Authors/PP)

Describes the Washington State University Writing Project, drawing attention to those features that differ from the Bay Area Writing Project model. Highlights how the Washington model promoted institutionalization of the inservice gains of the project participants. (HOD)

To avoid negligence charges, physical education instructors must have a basic understanding of general legal procedures and of guidelines for reasonable and prudent teacher behavior regarding supervision, activity selection, and safety precautions. Descriptions of general legal procedures and guidelines for physical education teachers are…