This paper examines the relationships between both low- and high-inference teaching process variables and success in specific teaching tasks performed in a laboratory setting. Two minor objectives are also included: teacher characteristics are related to success in the teaching tasks, and the relationships between low- and high-inference teaching…

A total of 60 students in teacher training enrolled in a Principles of Teaching Methods course participated in this study. The course consisted of four-hour weekly sessions, in which the students attended two-hour lecture sessions and taught eight to ten micro-lessons. In the microteaching laboratory, the student-teachers were arranged into groups…

This research project attempted to (1) identify leader types from teacher descriptions of the leadership behaviors of elementary school principals and (2) study the effects of the leadership types on the organizational behavior of teachers. Teacher responses from 99 Iowa elementary schools revealed three basic principal leadership types. Using…

The relationship between teacher questions and a series of supervisory conferences designed to modify those questions from recall and recognition to higher levels of comprehension was investigated. Five Toronto, Ontario, third-grade teachers were randomly selected to participate in the study, and their progress was recorded through individual…

Instructional supervision is regarded as a resource to be managed by teachers for the improvement of instruction. Major problems in research on teaching effectiveness--operational definition of teaching effectiveness; systematic description and observation of teaching behavior; and systematic modification of teaching behavior in specified…

This publication was prepared for the purpose of developing better understanding and greater appreciation between the Puerto Rican child who enrolls in the Chicago public schools and his classroom teacher. As a result of their experiences in teaching both in Puerto Rico and Chicago, the four participants in the Puerto Rico Exchange Teachers…

The purpose of this study was to find teacher behaviors which correlate significantly with a criterion measure of teacher ability to relate to students. Videotapes of 50 teacher interns were shown to 100 high school students of three different ethnic backgrounds--white, black and oriental. Teachers were rated on ability to relate to students.…

This document incorporates questionnaire results of a national study sample drawn from the million high school juniors and seniors who had taken the ACT battery during 1969-70. Students responded to more than 100 multiple-choice items and to one open-end question each on student protest, parents, and schools and teachers. This volume records…

Teaching style of junior and senior high teachers was investigated through student perceptions of "good" and "bad" teachers. Nearly 500 sets of unstructured, raw student comments were content analyzed from a communication standpoint. The four major dimensions of the communication framework were: Social Aspects, Presentation, Expressive Aspects,…

Microteaching (MT) has been used for teacher training in the United States for over ten years with varying amounts of success. This newsletter reviews two experiments in MT that were conducted in Sweden. The first experiment sought to determine whether MT was appropriate for teacher training. Using a factorial design study supplemented by…

As a part of the National Conference on Research in English cooperative research project concerning teacher behavior in the language arts, a literature survey was made to locate studies describing the behaviors of teachers during spelling instruction. The search was limited to studies reported during the period November 1966 to November 1971.…

The purpose of this study was to analyze the oral questioning process in elementary school classrooms and to attempt to determine the relationship of certain selected factors to the oral questioning process. The sample consisted of 60 elementary school science teachers teaching the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. Questions were classified into…

A study was conducted of the differences in the frequency of selected student-teacher interaction in differentiated staffs and in non-teamed schools. The interaction processes studied were synthesized from Erikson's four stages of childhood: student behaviors--information processing, choice-making, reflection, problem solving, and procedures or…

The general needs assessment instrument can provide the means for a school district to assess its needs relative to the Ten Goals of Quality Education. It is comprised of 63 area behavior statements, which encompass the 10 goals, and a 5-point rating scale (most important-least important) for each. The individual needs assessment instrument is…

The report is in three parts. Part A is entitled "What Helps Teachers Teach - An Experimental Analysis" and covers the topics: What Do Teachers Do? Single Procedures That Train Teachers and Those That Don't. A Three Procedure Training Package. When the Package Fails...Who Records the Behaviors? Do Training Results Maintain? This section…