Discusses maternal, therapeutic and instructional teacher role models and effects of teaching styles on preschool children. Suggests need for preschool educators to be more sensitive to parents' goals, which may be more instructional and control oriented than the teacher's. (NH)

Describes a videotape package designed to introduce teaching strategies to prospective trainers by presenting two contrasting teaching styles for self-analysis. Three references are listed. (Author/MBR)

An investigation of the effect of social power (defined in terms of instructors' manipulation of resources and students' dependence) revealed that the instructors' style of resource manipulation was significantly correlated with graduate students' mood and morale. Findings demonstrate the importance of social power for understanding classroom…

Instruction, like life, cannot always be planned, especially when teaching students the skills for interacting with real life situations and problems. (Author)

Reports the results of a study that examined the influence of learning and teaching styles on changes in student achievement in economics and attitude toward economics among undergraduates enrolled in an introductory economics course. (AM)

Contributions of personality, temperament, work style and satisfaction to performance in school were assessed along with measures of teaching style and teachers' global ratings of student performance and behavior in 133 high school students aged 15-17 years. Significant relationships emerged between student grades in class and…

Explains the development of teachers through three stages: first, learning how to perform as a teacher in front of a class; next, realizing both how to approach students at their own level and when to let the students do the talking; finally, teaching by revealing one's own learning. (RL)

The importance of helping gifted students achieve self-directed learning is discussed, and approaches to facilitate that goal are described. (CL)

Contrary to previous research, grading standards did not affect student achievement. The effect of standards on ratings was significant but not consistent for types of ratings (instructor expressiveness, lecture content), instructors, or differences in standards. Under certain conditions, higher grades either adversely affected ratings or had no…

This description of the teaching approach of Henry Schaefer-Simmern emphasizes his use of questioning to evoke student self-evaluation and to develop clarity of vision and interfunctional unity in students' art products and their mental, artistic conceiving. Two case reports of his work with elementary students are included. (Author/SJL)

Seven teaching style components and alternatives associated with each component are presented and described. The information is supplied as a tool to make operational descriptions of alternative teaching styles. (MP)

College teachers were evaluated as to appeal, competence, delivery, and teaching effectiveness and their presentations were analyzed to identify features of humor usage. Correlation coefficients were computed between frequency of use of various types of humor and students' evaluations of their professors. Results indicated differences between male…

Data analysis indicated that the learning environments created by mothers and teachers differed in terms of the original information provided, the amount and kind of feedback given, and the way in which the tasks were structured. (Author)

Feedback may be helpful in teacher training and supervision. A study indicates that, on the basis of student feedback, student teachers significantly changed their teaching styles across five dimensions. (CJ)