If teacher training and certification is to be competency based, those competencies will need to be very carefully described. The author contends that in days to come classroom management will be crucial. (Author)

A monitor was used to observe a college geography course, generate additional information with pre- and mid-course questionnaires, assist professor and class in interpreting and acting on the values of the monitoring process. (Author/JB)

Results of experiment showed that the use of an FM wireless microphone and an FM radio were effective in modifying the behavior of student interns within the context of the classroom itself. (Author)

Describes and gives examples of plan whereby the teacher observes two pupils per day, recording their behavior at various intervals. (SP)

Only when one can describe teaching behavior in concrete terms, and can prove objectively whether a given type of behavior did or did not occur, can he hope to modify teaching methods with any efficiency. (Author)

Presents data using an observational technique, APPROACH, which describes the behaviors of young children in naturalistic social situations. (WY)

Presents the procedures, results, and conclusions of a study designed to investigate and analyze the teaching procedures of two groups of elementary science teachers. Observations of science lessons taught by 15 SCIS-trained teachers and 15 non-SCIS-trained teachers revealed significant differences in the number of "science experiences …

Presents the procedures, results, and implications of a study designed to (1) develop a reliable category system and method of encoding biology teacher behaviors and (2) use the developed category system and the method of encoding to obtain an objective description of the classroom behaviors of biology teachers. (LC)