Relates the experience of a communication professional with 18 years experience who began teaching a basic course in news writing for college students. Advocates coaching methods for teaching writing, rather than lectures and paper grading. (PA)

Reports on an experience teaching online internationally, between a lecturer at the University of Georgia and library science students at the University of Botswana, using an auto-ethnographic method to discuss classroom teaching experiences in Botswana and how they influenced course design, teaching style, and desired student learning…

A 1996 senior class valedictorian shares her views about teacher effectiveness and ineffectiveness, based on observations of teacher behaviors and teacher-student interactions in various classes. The good teacher tells students what is out there to learn, shows an enthusiasm for acquiring knowledge for understanding, and inspires them to learn…

Introduces a new model for analyzing teachers' conversations in computer-mediate communication (CMC) based on information from Bakhtin (1981), Freire (1993), social identity theory, psychological capital, cultural consciousness, and CMC theoretical frameworks. Considers CMC and human-computer interaction (HCI) to address cultural differences that…

Examines the emerging concept of teacher as leader in the classroom, and offers a useful framework for practice. Finds that to exercise situational leadership in the classroom, teachers vary supportive behavior and directive behavior in response to four levels of student task development: telling, consulting, participating, and delegating. (SD)

Presents an interview with Michael Lile, a high school art teacher and artist. Focuses on his background in art, career as a teacher, approach to teaching, and techniques for finding time for his art in his personal life. (CMK)

Describes David Kolb's experiential learning theory focusing on the main features of his theory. Applies Kolb's theory to the teaching of geography addressing ideas such as teaching how theories of gender explain aspects of suburbia, teaching a field course, and encouraging staff to rethink their teaching style. Include references. (CMK)

Explores teachers' practices and relates them to their goals. Indicates that syllabus documents have influenced teachers' choices of teaching strategies and that most teachers had calculation-based goals for less able students and conceptual goals for more able students. Identifies teaching strategies and discusses the relationships between…

A survey of 197 regular education teachers who had students with mild handicaps in their classrooms gathered data about structural arrangements, adapted instruction, use of adult aides, and size of groups. Results showed little indication that teachers change their instructional methods for such students. (JDD)

Describes the metaphors three student teachers use to describe their own teaching styles. Combines these metaphors into a "student-teacher" metaphor which preserves the complexity of teaching and suggests that teachers are guides and referees as well as learners and friends. (RS)

A case study investigated the personal constructs of second language teaching held by eight teachers of Asian languages at Griffith University (Australia). The results, summarized using the Repertory Grid Technique, were reported in a chart of comparative "good" and "bad" qualities of second language teachers. A sketch of good…

A sequential program of teacher education is presented, viewing teaching as an art and proposing that teacher education should cultivate a creative outlook, an understanding of the intellectual foundations of artistic teaching, a working knowledge of the technology of the teacher's craft, and a personal style of artistic teaching. (PB)

Case studies of four elementary teachers reveal that subjects have stable teaching styles but that flexibility exists within each style. Three individual styles, linked to how teachers use textbooks, are identified: text-coverage, text-extension, and text-thinking. Interview data reveal that the teachers have coherent ideologies consistent with…

Studied effect of teaching style on moral development of prison inmates by comparing teacher-centered pedagogical style and learner-centered andragogical style. Results support use of andragogical style to produce moral development in adult students in correctional setting. (Author/BH)

A description is given of a conference focusing on enabling student teachers to discover their own personal style of teaching, to identify strengths and weaknesses within that personal mode of teaching, and recommend improvements in current teaching practices which are of concern to the student teacher. (JD)