A college English professor explores her pedagogical development as she recognizes her process-oriented teacher-centered pedagogy and considers a new philosophy incorporating a more student-centered teaching style introduced to her during graduate studies. Using teaching experience to reflect on the construction of teaching practice, she studies…

This book applies the latest in brain research and learning theory to classroom management. The concepts of psychoneurophysiology are made readily accessible. The book offers creative data gathering activities to help students manage their own behavior and to help teachers learn how their own behavior impacts the classroom environment. The seven…

This book presents a new method for English Language Arts teachers to assess student learning using authentic assessment techniques. It instructs on the implementation of the processes of Hypothesizing and Testing on a one-on-one basis, in order to better understand how children learn. Section 1 ("What Is the Hypothesis-Test Process?")…

Studied the effectiveness of using checklist-structured observations as a self-improvement technique for modifying teachers' verbal behaviors in the classroom. Concluded that significant changes were found in analyzing pre- and post-treatment audiotape recordings of participating teachers' regular classes. (CC)

Article considered the conflict of the rights of teachers to behave freely outside the classroom versus the power of school boards to determine teacher behavior outside as well as inside the classroom. (RK)

Two general dimensions of teachers' behavior--the teacher's personal relationship with students and his emphasis on course content and learning tasks--are studied in their relationship to organizational leadership behavior. (Author/KM)

Describes a typical day in an open school in Oxfordshire, England with particular reference to use of the various learning centers. Gives a detailed description of the teacher's actual role in interacting with children. (CS)

Well educated professionals in the classroom will do more for our educational dilemmas than performance based teacher education. (Author/JN)

This article attempts to estimate the most successful method for measuring effective teaching. (RK)

A look at one method of analyzing the percentage of time spent in various activities and functions as one example of how teachers and other educational personnel might examine the processes and experiences of the classroom to get some indication of what learning outcomes are being fostered. (Author)

A discussion of the research'' approach, which involves training teachers to solve classroom problems through scientific problem-solving methods - that is, through the formulation and testing of hypothesis about instructional problems. (Author/HB)

A modified role projection technique is used to determine the effects of subordinate competence and task complexity on perceptions of leadership behavior. It is hypothesized that subordinates hold expectations of the proper level of structuring that their supervisors should provide. (Author/DN)

Article present a brief inventory of some issues which will demand a reassessment and a change in teacher performance. (Author)

Objectives of the study were to determine the relationships among behaviors defined within each of several observation systems; and to examine relationships across systems in order to derive some empirical dimensions of classroom behavior. (Authors/CB)

The problems of student teachers during practice teaching are discussed. The importance of the classteacher as a model for student's behavior and beliefs is explored. (CK)