Two studies examined the relationship between teacher behavior and effective English teaching. The first study, in 1978, investigated whether a relationship exists between the intellectual disposition of English teachers and student response to literature using the Co (complexity) Scale of the Omnibus Personality Inventory (OPI) to measure teacher…

Work done in Sweden under the purview of the Creativity and Communication: Music and Art Education Project included (1) developing theoretical premises and central research problems; (2) surveying art and music teachers at various levels of compulsory school concerning their views of the purpose, function, and conditions of art and music…

A "troubleshooting" model was designed to aid individual teachers in solving behavioral problems in the classroom. The model focused on student behavior for problem identification; on teacher behavior for causal analysis; and on teacher behavior for solution proposals. To examine how readily the model can be understood, applied, and integrated…

The lack of clear consensus among cooperating teachers and university advisors about expectations for the student teacher role ties in closely with the confusion that currently exists about the respective supervisory roles. Student teaching continues in many programs to be structured around the traditional triad which has been characterized as…

This report contains the synthesis of Research on Instructional Effectiveness in Elementary Schools (RUETE). The emphasis of the research fellows was on large scale, classroom-based studies related to student achievement. Current research in the areas of active teaching behaviors, activity and task stuctures, and academic learning time is…

Using data gathered by way of ethnographic research techniques in an intensive collaborative investigation of the classroom practice of two experienced teachers, each teacher's uniqueness is deliniated, and it is illustrated with examples of classroom practice, what it means for each teacher to know what to do in spontaneous practice.…

Some writing teachers believe that one-to-one conferencing with students in the classroom, used as a primary method of instruction on the theory that teaching less means learning more, gives students the time and personal attention they need to become competent writers. In order to ascertain current beliefs and practices of conferencing in the…

An increase in clinical cases indicates that trauma in school children can be connected to teacher abuse. A survey was administered to 35 college undergraduates, 40 school teachers, 41 special educators, and 65 mixed individuals from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Delaware, Georgia, and Puerto Rico to determine the nature of the abuse, its…

Classroom lessons have a specific structure which guides patterns of interaction between teachers and students. The formal structure of the lesson is contrasted to the less formal structure of transitions: the times between the lessons. The informal structure of transitions allows an opportunity for different types of interaction which are…

Collecting time-on-task data is necessary in order to research methods for increasing student time-on-task and to provide feedback to teachers on what teaching behaviors produce high levels of on-task behaviors in students. A student and a teacher behavior data collection instrument developed for research in the area of academic learning time is…

A study was conducted in the City College of Chicago and replicated in three other urban community college districts to investigate the instructional methods of a sample of exceptional community college teachers and to look for alterable teaching behaviors and techniques that could be presented to other teachers who wanted to improve their…

The Teacher Improvement Model was begun as an Organizational Development Project using the parallel systems approach in a school for emotionally disturbed junior high school students. Teachers volunteered for committee work and requested observations and evaluations in an effort to define and establish a discipline model best suited to them. Such…

A study related the communication responsiveness of instructors to the affective and cognitive outcomes of students in basic speech communication courses. Specifically, the study investigated both the instructors' overall responsiveness and their responsiveness as climate makers. The communication responsiveness of instructors was measured by the…

This document reports on a review of the leadership literature, a cross-sectional correlation study, and a series of in-depth teacher interviews, all of which were parts of an effort to better understand the conditions under which a principal can lead. The correlation study makes use of S. Kerr's theory that the effect of the leader's behavior on…

By analogy, research suggests that training Child Development Associate (CDA) candidates to handle the complexity and autonomy of the early childhood teaching job is likely to have long range effects on the teacher and the early childhood education field. That is, a truly competent teacher behaves professionally and will become increasingly…