Reports on a study of the relationship between the perceptual learning style and teaching style of 138 junior college educators. Indicates that the instructors tended to teach the way they preferred to learn. Discusses implications for practice. (DMM)

To enhance the quality of learning among children, physical educators have the responsibility of challenging students to develop their higher order thinking skills. A dominating style of teaching may be in conflict with asking students to think. (MT)

Effective teachers have classes with a life and spirit of their own, a quality that grabs students. The author calls this prehensive teaching, from the Latin word "prehension," meaning to seize, grasp, apprehend by the senses. Ways to restore the prehensive nature of teaching are suggested. (MT)

Affectionately remembers a college professor and his particular approach to poetry reading and discourse. Refers to a Sufi tale regarding teaching and learning to demystify previous philosophical and pedagogical confusion. (JK)

This article reviews two decades of research on clarity of teachers' presentations in order to see if the promise of clarity as an effective teacher behavior in early research was justified and to evaluate whether claims have materialized. (Author/MT)

This study measured the effect of an eclectic instructional approach on psychomotor skills achievement of 156 junior high school students when implemented in lieu of the teacher's preferred instructional style. The eclectic approach produced higher scores in nine of twelve tests and showed insignificant gains in the other three tests. (MT)

Describes recent findings on lecturing styles derived from study of 258 lecturers in two English universities. Factor analysis yielded six scales for identifying approaches to lecturing. Subsequent cluster analysis yielded five distinctive types of lecturing styles. Styles were associated significantly with subject matter, marginally with status,…

A detailed description of one teacher's use of error analysis charts which point out weak spots in the transcription skills of individual students. (HD)

There are many classifications of management teachers today. Each has his style, successes, and faults. Some of the more prominent are: the company man, the mamagement technician, the man of principle, the evangelist, and the entrepreneur. A mixture of these classifications would be ideal since each by itself has its faults. (DS)

Results of a study of the effects of negative criticism indicated that group criticism reduces the cognitive performance of college students. (DR)

Because of their traditional attitudes towards education, the Saskatchewan school superintendents place greater emphasis on characteristics that typify the organized teacher rather than the creative one. (Author/MF)