Focuses on issues related to using recent findings from research as a knowledge base for making decisions about teacher mastery. Suggests that if the present body of knowledge about effective teaching is used to select master teachers, some excellent teachers will be overlooked and some ineffective teachers will be designated as masters. (RH)

Five cookery classes for eight children, all of whom had profound and multiple handicaps and were nonverbal, were observed and analyzed. Purpose of the observation was to describe the day-to-day events in a classroom for children with severe learning difficulties and what a teacher in this special classroom teaches. (RM)

Notes that major changes have occurred in the factors investigated and the data collection procedures employed in teacher effectiveness research and that the generalizability of significant findings continues to be limited by methodological and experimental design problems. (FL)

Narrative descriptions of class sessions conducted by seven junior high school English teachers were used to map the way order was achieved under different circumstances. (RM)

Explores materials in the ERIC system dealing with the turn-taking model of classroom interaction between teacher and students. (HTH)

Causes of the increasing gap between the educational researcher and the classroom teacher are investigated. As a possible solution, the author suggests involving the teacher in the research process as a teacher-researcher. Research designs that could be utilized are detailed. (BT)

Connected leadership is an emerging view of leadership as an inclusive and collective networked activity occurring throughout organizations. Out of this project grew the Changing Nature of Leadership (CNL) research. Its focus: to explore the current field of leadership and forecast future trends. CNL relied on several interdependent streams of…

A study investigated differences in literacy teaching and learning between those classrooms following the "Literacy Initiative for Teachers" (LIFT) program and those using normal teaching techniques. A subsidiary aim was to document the staffing ratios throughout the day in the classrooms and the amount of time devoted to English. One Reception…

This book weaves together some of the author's most influential writings of the 1990s to offer a unique engagement with poststructuralism that defies the boundaries between theory and embodied practice. The sophisticated and nuanced discussions of subjectivity, agency, epistemology, feminism, and power are embedded in vital depictions of life…

A study investigated third graders' use of oral retellings in solving mathematics word problems. Research examined the extent to which third-grade students, following instruction and experience with oral retellings, selected and used this strategy in solving word problems when they were not required to do so. The nature of third graders' oral…

The traditional treatment of literary texts in Slovene schools took place in the form of a search for the "true message" of the literary work. The new Slovene literary didactics assumes that the teacher no longer explains to the student the meaning of this or that literary work. Rather he/she knows that the literary work can be…

A review organized around a conceptual scheme of relations between teacher behavior and pupil growth which has some direct support in the research literature.'' (Author)

Author lists six innovation characteristics'' and reports on a study showing positive correlation between two of these, relative advantage and compatibility, and teacher acceptance of innovation. (SP)