A summary is presented of the final report, "Effective Classroom Management and Instruction: An Exploration of Models." The final report presents a set of linked investigations of the effects of training teachers in effective classroom management practices in a series of school-based workshops. Four purposes were addressed by the study: (1) to…

The study was developed to help lay religious education teachers develop the necessary skills, methods, and strategies to improve their effectiveness. The review of literature and interview results provide information from the areas of professional education and religious education. The review of literature and interview results were compiled into…

Construct systems and style preferences of 30 student teachers were investigated before and after student teaching using Gregorc's (1982) "Style Delineator" and Kelly's (1955) "Repgrid". The majority of student teachers were found to prefer styles of Concrete Sequential and Abstract Random. Constructs were elicited from students as they compared…

Following a precis of research findings on the topic of teacher effectiveness, this resource bibliography presents sources that address three major questions about teacher instructional effectiveness: (1) What do effective teachers know? (2) What do effective teachers do? and (3) What attitudes do effective teachers have? Each citation is…

This guide discusses the Philosophy of Teaching Scale (POTS) which was developed to define the physical setting of participants' classrooms, and participants' orientation on six philosophical dimensions. The six dimensions are: (1) learning environment and experiences; (2) curriculum; (3) grouping; (4) instructional style; (5) discipline; and (6)…

This study examines the role of gender and birth status in the teaching styles of 19 mothers. The infants studied included 3 female and 4 male full-terms and 4 female and 8 male preterms. Each mother-infant dyad was videotaped during three teaching situations: book reading, an unstructured task, and a structured task. Behavior was coded according…

A course critique based on a multi-channel model of education has been developed and administered to 1,599 students enrolled at the U.S. Air Force Academy in the 1988 spring semester. The single-page instrument asks students to evaluate contributions the overall course made to their personal enjoyment, critical thinking, and subject knowledge, as…

This study advises teacher educators to focus on the micropolitics of teaching to help prospective teachers become more artistically effective in the classroom and more confident of their ability to successfully influence others with whom they interact every day. Being successfully nonconformist requires individual faculty members to find original…

This paper describes a chemistry professor's approach to teaching mathematics in the college classroom. Based on the assumption that the four main goals of the educational process in general are to teach students to communicate clearly, study regularly, master basic math skills, and think logically, a description is provided of the manner in which…

This tightly focused profile of an exceptionally able elementary school teacher includes background material on her youth and early years in teaching as well as an in-depth analysis of her teaching methods and relationships with students. Videotapes of her classroom performance and retrospective interviews were used to obtain information. An…

Assuming guided inquiry as a pedagogical ideal in mathematics education implies that teaching must connect students' thinking about a subject with curricular agendas and instructional goals. Because students are not typically inclined to consider their active inquiry as a route to acquiring the knowledge that is valued in school, such teaching…

A description is presented of a classroom management training program developed for preservice and inservice teachers in Guam. A brief review of research findings on classroom management and effective teacher practices includes a profile of an effective classroom manager. The training program, based upon these findings, is designed to focus…

An exploratory look at Taiwanese preschool children's compliant and noncompliant behaviors, how teachers responded to the behaviors, and the activity settings in which they occurred is offered in this paper. Observations were made in 10 different preschool centers in the city of Taipei; 5 were laboratory schools and 5 were private centers. A total…

College education is examined with focus on what students need to learn to maximize their full human potential. Part 1, "Teaching, Learning, and the Purpose of Education," examines: teaching styles and effects on learning; the goals of teaching; education as a humanizing experience; and enriching learning through technology. Part 2, "Teaching…

In a "College English" article, B. M. Kroll describes the educational and philosophical foundations of three perspectives on the teaching of writing: interventionism, maturationism, and interactionism. These three developmental perspectives offer a useful way of reviewing, evaluating, and classifying textbooks written for basic writers.…