The experiment reported in this document is based on the work of Garrison and others in developing a testing and interviewing procedure designed to enable increased self-definition on the part of prospective teachers and earlier development of appropriate and effective teaching styles. Three groups of elementary education majors were involved in…

This study investigated the degree to which mothers of 4-year-old children placed specific behavior of their children in a meaningful context and whether such degree was a function of the socioeconomic status (SES) of the mother and/or of the particular situation involved. The subjects were 137 mother-child pairs of Negroes, who ranged in SES from…

This report describes a project conducted by the Center for Coordinated Education which attempted to train more than 500 inservice teachers to teach selected cognitive skills to some 15,000 students ranging from grades 1 through 10. The three elements incorporated in the training program were (1) a specific teaching task (the development of six…

The potentiality of macroanalysis of interactive dialogue was studied for ten suburban school teachers and their very high and very low ability student groups. Macroanalysis is the computerized analysis of interaction data into units of three or more tallies with the number of unit occurrences determinable. The sample groups had a mean IQ…

The purpose of this report is to present a description of the instructional program, funded in part under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, and the findings of the study which assessed pupil performance in reading and mathematics and related estimated costs to pupil performance. The following projects were utilized as…

The lack of a clearly defined professional role for community college faculty reflects the fact that community colleges are rapidly growing institutions exhibiting multiple purposes. This book is addressed primarily to community college instructors and aims to define their professional role in terms of the effect of their teaching on their…

To determine whether preservice teachers would demonstrate a significant change in level of teacher enthusiasm after participating in a training intervention on teacher enthusiasm, and whether these same preservice teachers could maintain the increased level of teacher enthusiasm three weeks after termination of training, twenty preservice…

The development of a category scheme for the systematic analysis of science classroom discourse is described. Three teaching models are discussed: the Impression Model, which depicts the mind of a student as receiving and storing external impressions; the Insight Model, which denies the possibility that ideas or knowledge can be conveyed by…

This study examined the prediction of reading achievement for 144 second-, third-, and fourth-grade children in classrooms differing in program openness. Intercorrelations of nine cognitive and personality variables were factor analyzed, and four components representing creativity, conceptual tempo, attitude, and intellectuality were extracted.…

Persons intimately associated with educational programs value programs that are personalized, individualized, and humanized, but being humanistic does not just happen. The article focuses on techniques by which teachers can improve the communication process: attending to students, implementing open-ended questions, and helping students express…

In one study, a teacher who looked attractive was rated as more competent and better able to stimulate and motivate students than when she looked unattractive. In the other, close behaviors by the teacher produced more positive ratings than distant behaviors. (Author/BP)

In the education of American Indian children, two contrasting learning styles are involved, that of the school and that of the community. The native teacher emerges as a critical factor in synthesizing the different culturally based styles. (JD)

At Bucknell University, a study of student preferences for faculty teaching styles indicates an overwhelming preference for professors who see themselves and are seen as teachers rather than researchers, administrators or socialites. This preference was found to exist across sex, class level, and student self-reported personality ratings (JMD)

Teachers with direct and indirect teaching styles were paired with students who were high or low on social-emotional development, to create congruent and incongruent matches. Congruency was consistently related to instructional outcome with the effect strongest for student affect, followed by achievement, and then attention to task. Findings…

Year-round scheduling may be one way your school district will be dealing flexibly with future enrollment and population shifts and changing life styles. Discusses the pros and cons of the system being used in Colorado Springs. Currently 28 states offer year-round learning opportunities involving more than 600 schools. (Author/RK)