The learning module described here focuses on classroom management. It is for the use of both preservice and inservice teachers. The primary focus of the modules is on increasing understanding of students, with the object of increasing teacher effectiveness in class management. Basic teaching skills and behaviors are covered. A critique of the…

The inservice learning module described here covers the principles and processes of classroom interaction and the effect of teacher behavior on student learning. The intent of the module is to illustrate, through examples of actual classroom practice, concepts and principles of positive teacher student interaction. Information is provided in this…

Teacher responses to problem student behavior was studied. Responses were coded for teachers' attributional inferences, concerning both problem students and their own ability to handle the problems. Attibutional inferences differed according to problem ownership. For problems owned primarily by teachers themselves, students were seen as acting…

This manual was used to train observers for the Junior High Classroom Organization Study, a research project developed to delineate specific effective teacher behaviors. During the training sessions, the following topics were discussed: 1) preliminary results from a previously conducted Third-Grade Classroom Organization Study; 2) concepts and…

The way that department heads interpret the effort required by college faculty to teach classes was studied with a national sample of 491 department heads in 25 major U.S. universities. Based on the responses of department heads, a model was developed to relate the effort required to teach a class to the level, size, instructional mode, and…

This report, first in a series of seven, addressed the question, "What events disrupt classroom instruction and what are the most effective techniques teachers use to cope with these distractions?" This report describes the events which occurred in the evolution of the research study. The major sections are: (1) selection of the…

TO TEST THE HYPOTHESIS THAT THE VERBAL BEHAVIOR OF STUDENT TEACHERS IN THE CLASSROOM DOES NOT CHANGE IN RELATION TO THE VERBAL BEHAVIOR OF THEIR COOPERATING TEACHER, A VERBAL-BEHAVIORAL MEASUREMENT OF 12 STUDENT TEACHERS AND 6 COOPERATING TEACHERS WAS UNDERTAKEN USING THE OBSERVATION SCHEDULE AND RECORD FORM 3D. ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE REVEALED THAT…

FOUR GROUPS OF 15 STUDENT TEACHERS EACH WERE USED TO TEST THE HYPOTHESIS THAT (A) THOSE TAUGHT INTERACTION ANALYSIS WOULD BE MORE INDIRECT (ACCEPTING OF PUPIL FEELINGS AND IDEAS, ENCOURAGING, QUESTIONING) AT THE END OF STUDENT TEACHING THAN THOSE TAUGHT LEARNING THEORY, AND (B) AMONG THOSE TAUGHT INTERACTION ANALYSIS, THOSE SUPERVISED BY…

This instrument identifies nineteen pairs of behavioral profiles which are seen as related to competent performance in classroom teaching. Each pair contains two views of a particular kind of behavior--a "positive" view and a "negative" view. It is designed for use in rating student teachers and may be used by supervisors and cooperating teachers,…

The purpose of this study was to gather descriptive data for a comparative analysis of classroom and physical education teaching. A description is provided of the instrument used in collecting a wide range of data appropriate to both the classroom and the gymnasium. Four behavioral categories were observed: substantive behavior, appraisal…

The seven chapters of this final report provide a discussion of a study detailing the instructional situations within which students are learning to write. Data reported from the study include a national survey of teaching practices and many classroom observations in ninth and eleventh grade content area classrooms (English, mathematics, foreign…

A questionnaire survey provided data for this study of current ministry guidelines usage in Ontario. The study reveals that while guidelines have frequently been ignored in the past, most school boards are taking current guidelines more seriously. Local curriculum committees have been largely ineffective in implementing and refining ministry…

The hypothesis to be tested postulated that cooperating teachers and university supervisors, as observers, affect the student teacher's verbal behavior differently. Data were collected on fifteen elementary education student teachers by the use of a tape recorder during the second, fourth, and sixth weeks of the school year and under the following…

This study was concerned with investigating patterns of verbal interaction of teachers and students who were matched and mismatched in field dependent and field independent cognitive styles. The first objective was to answer the general research question: Is there a difference in the patterns of dyadic classroom interaction when the teacher and…

The Interaction Partner System (IPS) was designed and implemented by the Okaloosa County Teacher Corps Project and the University of West Florida. It was an answer to several dilemmas: teacher isolation, irrelevant and inflexible teacher inservice training, and theories and research developed at the graduate level which rarely found their way into…