Examined specifically how teacher behaviors influence the effectiveness of a social development program entitled Project AWARE. For intermediate and primary grades, those teachers who received the highest skill ratings also tended to report positive changes in their students' behavior. (Author)

In 1965, 126 new teachers were studied for psychological, biographical, and educational variables. In 1967, 1972, and 1977, they were surveyed on their satisfaction with teaching and rated for teaching ability. Overall trends and the ability of the 1965 data to predict 1977 teaching success and satisfaction are considered. (SJL)

Presented are some suggestions and information designed to increase the biology teacher's awareness of the potential for participation in discussion by each individual pupil in his/her class. (PB)

Hypothesized that college students' learning from a videotaped lecture will be enhanced by the instructors' nonverbal expressiveness. Results support a positive effect for affective learning and suggest that nonverbal expressiveness directly influences attitudes toward the lecturer and the videotaped message. (PD)

Case study confirms that a teacher's classroom communication behavior is affected by concerns about communication. Identified three types of teacher concerns about communication--self, task, impact--and then established a relationship between these concerns and patterns of behavior. (PD)

The path coefficients in an explanatory model of teaching and learning were corrected for error of measurement using generalizability theory. The disattenuation procedure effectively clarified and increased the interpretability of results. (Author/CTM)

Because the first days of school are considered crucial to the establishment of a well-run classroom, this study observed 28 third-grade classes during the beginning of a term, identifying successful teacher behaviors in making introductions, presenting rules and procedures, monitoring the classroom, and analyzing and regulating student behavior.…

Studied two factors hypothesized to be related to sex differences in participation in mathematics courses -- teachers' evaluative feedback and students' success expectations. No sex differences were found in patterns of teachers' evaluative feedback or students' success expectations on familiar mathematics tasks; however, girls had lower success…

Through institutional and faculty actions, secular private schools may unwittingly reinforce the wrong values in their students: elitism, selfishness, and smugness. Educators should remember to live by the moral values they profess. (SJL)

Five vignettes of classroom interactions are presented to illustrate via the aesthetic evaluation model the significance of complex student-teacher interactions that facilitate or disrupt learning and the rendering of the unique characteristics of particular teaching-learning situations. (Editor)

Assessed the relationship between teacher attitudes and student perceptions of teacher behavior. Measures of teacher attitudes and perceptions of teaching included measures of authoritarianism, control, self-concept, responsibility for student achievement, and affect toward teaching. Students evaluated teacher rapport with students, classroom…

The results of six studies investigating the effects of different teaching methods on undergraduate student involvement in classroom learning are discussed. An interpretation of the data suggests that supportive teacher behaviors which satisfy safety needs are directly related to student participation. (JN)

Discusses the need for inspired teaching and presents eight pointers for the improved performance of college instructors: cultivate general knowledge; plan classroom activities in advance; treat students as adults; provide personal attention; base instruction on personal experience; develop a sense of humor; communicate with colleagues; and…

A model of learning from instruction proposed that students perceive and cognitively respond to instructional stimuli before engaging learning processes per se. University students were trained to recognize only or to recognize and cognitively respond to teacher skills in lectures. Additional prelecture practice in recognition enhanced learning.…

A study of vocational teachers' perceptions of the outcomes of Title IX implementation in vocational education showed that attitudes toward the desirability of Title IX were related to the teacher's content area. Perceptions of obstacles to implementation were primarily a function of familiarity with Title IX. (SK)