Reviews judicial decisions involving school staff evaluation systems. Courts remain reluctant to interfere with the summative evaluation process of a school district. Administrators must apply reasoned, ascertainable standards in employment decisions in order to withstand judicial scrutiny amid the array of legal constraints on the evaluation of…

Translates research concerning direct and nondirect instruction into workable patterns by clustering teacher behaviors included in instructional organization and management and describing teacher as center of attention in classroom. Rationale for patterns of instruction, description and example of how they may be used, and an observation…

The first two articles describe the processes employed by Open University faculty members in preparing distance education courses and in commenting on and redrafting materials. The third looks at factors that influence the decisions of faculty members to determine why they prepare their teaching materials in the ways described. (MBR)

Reviews research on poetry in the classroom. The first part concentrates on findings that emphasize the importance of the individual teacher; the second part presents teachers', students', and observers' perception on what it is that a good poetry teacher does. (HOD)

Concludes that teachers' questions influence both the sorts of inferences fifth-grade students draw from a text and how well they integrate the new information with what they already know. Argues that they learn best the things they are asked about. (FL)

Students rated domain-appropriate teacher responses to transgressions higher than domain-inappropriate or domain-undifferentiated responses. In addition, students generalized their ratings of teacher responses to their ratings of the teachers. (Author/BW)

This study examines the effect of grading standards on student ratings of instruction. After a grading treatment, the ratings of students in the experimental group changed to reflect more negative perceptions of instruction. These shifts were statistically significant in seven of the ten rating items. (Author/PN)

This study attempts to relate some characteristics of the social-emotional interaction to some characteristics of the cognitive interaction in the classroom. (Author/RK)

The purpose of Competency-Based Teacher Education programs is to provide education for teachers that focuses on the development of those competencies--knowledge, skills, and ways of acting--that are most effective in the classroom. This article investigated how the CBTE approach will affect music education. (Author/RK)

This report presents the results of survey research that collected responses of graduates (N=113, Fall 1999 through Fall 2001) from a reform-based mathematics and science teacher preparation program. All graduates' responses were compared to smaller subsamples of employed new elementary and middle school teachers with responses of a larger sample…

This book argues that the redefinition of teaching begins with teachers' developing a positive attitude about themselves as educators. The book offers suggestions to teachers on how to apply positive practices to themselves, move from passive to assertive communication, redefine their approach and build new beliefs, increase student…

Supportive classroom environments can enhance students' learning about their own diversity as well as that of others. Discussing basic diversity variables such as gender, age, and race can raise awareness and conscious decision making about how students use and view communication in their everyday lives. A graduate student instructor enhances her…

A study investigated differences in native and non-native French speaking teachers' patterns of error correction of second-year students' compositions. Subjects were eight university teaching assistants (TAs), four native speakers of French and four non-native speakers. Data were drawn from photocopies of all students' corrected compositions…

This study investigated the empirical structure underlying students' perceptions of their teachers' behaviors in terms of the amount of control displayed in the regulation of students' learning activities. A group of 2,061 Dutch secondary school students taught by 67 teachers completed a 14-item survey that examined their perceptions. Data…

A study was conducted to determine and compare the literacy beliefs, knowledge bases, and practices of early childhood educators who espouse emergent literacy and reading readiness philosophies; to explore the relationship among beliefs, knowledge bases, and practices; and to examine the degree to which beliefs, knowledge bases, and practices were…