Two components of teaching are tasksetting behavior and optimizing behavior. The former is the actions of the teacher to achieve the goals of teaching a specific curriculum; the latter is the actions of the teacher to improve or accelerate the pupil's learning. Reading and physical education teachers were studied to investigate the relationship between the tasksetting behavior and measurements of the pupil's learning. The results of the investigations show that a significant relationship exists between certain behaviors and student achievement which does not appear to be different among groups of pupils with different entering behavior. (JMF)