This book is an orientation to teaching designed to help establish a comfortable self-image and to develop appropriate skills. Readings and experiences are presented in the five-part text to aid in this orientation process. Part 1 discusses forming a group that functions as a support system, a human experience resource, and a source of feedback…

This memorandum reports on the preliminary research using a 24-item inventory designed to measure teacher's positions in relation to education issues and teaching decisions. The instrument, whose development is reported, is intended to identify representatives of two dichotomous styles of teaching: traditional, teacher-centered teaching and…

This study explores the relationship between certain personality characteristics of professional elementary school teachers and their teaching styles, rated on a continuum from traditional to open. Findings indicate the following: (a) there is a negative correlation between scores indicating an open-classroom orientation and scores indicating a…

A study was conducted to explore the relationships between the teaching behavior of student teachers and cooperating teachers over a semester of contact. Subjects were 19 liberal arts graduates in a year-long master's degree program which included "observation-participation" experiences in the fall semester and full-time student teaching in the…

This paper suggests that educators must move from controlling, custodial teaching methods to flexible, humanistic methods if they are to successfully meet the individual needs of today's youth. The counseling staff is suggested as a natural change agent team to facilitate and influence humanistic changes with teachers, as well as serving as…

What goes on in most classrooms depends on the cognitive style of teachers, not students. (Author)

Examines the effect of classroom structure and teaching style on the creative performance of first grade children. (BD)

Describes an advanced expository writing class set up as a quarter-long "survival game," the object of which is to write 7,000 words of satisfactory prose and receive an A for the course. (JM)

This brief self-administered quiz provides teachers a quick survey to evaluate their teaching styles. Each answer includes an evaluation. Recommendations for teachers who wish to improve their teaching styles are made. (JL)

This reprinted 1979 article with a 1988 update discusses ways to help gifted children learn to competently manage and direct a substantial part of their own learning. It discusses goals for self-directed learning, developing the necessary skills, the characteristics of five different instructional styles, and resulting changes in student behavior.…

A study focusing on verbal and nonverbal communication and interaction factors involved in teaching children with severe learning difficulties suggested that differences in teaching style or strategy are closely related to the way in which language's functional qualities are expressed. (CL)

A teacher who has effective discipline is one whose students are on task, act responsibly, and show good human relations. Listed are brief descriptions of some of the behaviors used by effective teachers to establish an optimal learning environment. (MT)

The primary theme of this paper is that teaching at the college level has changed in the postmodern era in ways that make it necessary to consider a richer classification than the popular dichotomy of "sage on the stage" or "guide on the side." The career of G. Stanley Hall is discussed as an example of a teacher who would be…

A model for effective teaching is proposed that is useful in determining classroom teaching methods. (PG)