Concerned with improving science education, the author suggests the development of (1) science programs which are of greater interest and challenge to students and (2) teacher education programs on a more cooperative basis, with emphasis on the development of individualistic teaching styles. (LC)

Greater academic freedom for college professors in the humanities field would result in a type of classroom instruction that would be relevant to the needs of modern society. (CK)

Provides a speculative look at how four basic personality styles" can be reflected in teacher behavior. (Author)

Presents the procedures, results, and conclusions of a study designed to determine if there is any significant correlation between pupil control ideology of teachers and the extent to which classroom teaching practices recommended by BSCS are exhibited in the classroom. Subjects were 68 secondary school biology teachers, and 2040 students of these…

Presents the procedures, results, and conclusions of a study designed to determine whether constant patterns of teaching of various kinds over an extended period could affect concept formation, problem solving, and total achievement of slow learners in a high school biology course. (LC)

Presents the procedures, results, and conclusions of a study designed to determine the effects of set induction upon student achievement and perception of effective teaching. (LC)

The Tucson Interaction Model emphasizes the importance of teaching style in linking cognitive with affective variables for mainstreamed handicapped students. Five aspects of the model are depicted across three strands (response opportunities, feedback, and personal regard). Even with computer-assisted instruction, the teacher's role is still…

In terms of second-language learning, examines: (1) What is the significance, educational and statistical, of the performance difference between field-dependent and field-independent students? and (2) Does the learner's cognitive style interact with other factors in the learning situation, such as the teacher's cognitive style, to affect…

Teachers of regular classes containing gifted students should develop their ability to identify those gifted students, analyze their teaching approaches, assess the students' ability and developmental stage, organize the classroom into different working levels, and collaborate with other teachers to extend and elaborate the curriculum. (CL)

Recounts how awareness of the fact that she could retire if she wanted to changed the way a teacher taught and thought, and allowed her to relax. (JL)

Points out how student understanding of as well as student confusion about reading and word recognition are both functions of teacher behavior. (FL)

Contrasts Richard Peters' widely accepted analysis and justification of teacher authority with Nell Keddie's discussion of classroom knowledge. Contends that Peters' justification relies upon contrafactual presuppositions about what a teacher knows and teaches. Argues that authority, supposedly based on superior knowledge, is in fact an extension…