A theoretical model specifying the underlying knowledge and procedures whereby human subjects can generate effective initial descriptions of scientific problems was formulated. The model is prescriptive since it does not necessarily try to simulate the behavior of actual experts nor assume that their performance is optimal. The model, elaborated…

The study examined how adding students with learning disabilities (LD) to regular education classrooms changed the behavior of nonhandicapped students and their teachers. Initial observations were of mainstream classes containing no learning-disabled students. Observations were again conducted after LD students had been mainstreamed for 8 months.…

This collection of lectures includes the following contributions from faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder: (1) "Aloof Professors and Shy Students" (Patricia Nelson Limerick); (2) "Teaching the Thundering Herd: Surviving in a Large Classroom" (Charles R. Middleton); (3) "The Scientist as a Story Teller" (R. Igor Gamow); (4) "Active…

Studies show that metacognitive strategies can increase learning skills and that independent use of these metacognitive strategies can be gradually developed in people. The school library media center is the ideal place for students to learn how to develop metacognitive strategies; that is, they can learn how to connect new information to former…

To encourage widespread parental participation in schools, both lay persons and professional staff should understand the primary assumptions which undergird shared efforts to create a unified, effective system of schooling. Proposed practice for an effective schooling system must be related to: (1) democratic concepts and their presumed strengths…

This pilot project explored the use of video in an elementary school as a catalyst for group discussion and self reflection in connection with conflict resolution. Subjects were 32 students in an extended day care program for grades K-6; 80% of these students were of Hispanic background. Videos were created with the students, and then played back…

Six different approaches to teaching values in the classroom are reviewed in this paper. Each approach is reviewed according to: (1) the rationale of the approach; (2) the process of valuing; (3) the teaching methods used to achieve the specific purpose to the approach; (4) an instructional mode or system of procedures used by teachers to…

Before technical educators can develop pride and professional manner in their students, they themselves must be proud to be teachers of allied health professionals. A program is described in which behavioral techniques are both used and taught. (Author/AJ)

DEFINING AND DESCRIBING GOOD TEACHING AND THE PROCESS BY WHICH IT CAN BE DETERMINED WITH RELIABILITY WERE THE GOALS OF THIS STUDY. CHARACTERISTICS OF GOOD TEACHERS WERE DIFFERENTIATED, TEACHING ACTS OF GOOD TEACHERS WERE DEFINED, AND AN OVERALL DESCRIPTION OF GOOD TEACHING WAS DEVELOPED. AS A RESULT OF THE STUDY, A MODEL FOR GOOD TEACHING WAS…

This study investigated the possibility of identifying groups of basic educational attitudes of preservice elementary education majors who had few field experiences prior to their taking upper level education courses. The attitudes investigated pertained to beliefs about classroom management, student trust, and teacher discipline. Through factor…

A series of short articles gives suggestions for new Bureau of Indian Affairs teachers preparing to teach Navajo children in Arizona. The topics considered include 1) Navajo children as they are the first day (week, two weeks) of school, from beginners through eighth graders; 2) a beginning teacher's first impressions of Navajo high school…

Interaction analysis, based on the Flanders system but containing the additional category of maladjusted behavior, was applied to three videotaped classroom situations involving socially maladjusted children. The first two were made in January; the teacher was involved in a T-group experience in February; the third videotape was made in May with…

This teacher characteristics bibliography, published by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Early Childhood Education, presents the resumes of 82 documents relevant to the teacher herself or which concern her relationship to pupils or colleagues. Most of the documents deal with teachers of preschool or primary age children, but a few report on teachers of…

In attempting to discover how a middle-class teacher copes with lower-class children in an urban school, the authors of this study (one an "outside" observer who sat at the side of the classroom, the other the teacher or "inside" observer) recorded the classroom actions and behavior of the teacher and his seventh grade pupils all day every day for…