This casebook provides candid descriptions of teachers who enter the profession with no previous teacher preparation. The cases describe how a group of novice teachers faced the problems of transforming content knowledge into accessable units of instruction for teenagers in inner-city schools. The vignettes are grouped according to specific kinds…

Thailand's Chulalongkorn University Language Institute has established two series of in-service education courses for teachers of English as a second language. The courses were designed to respond to the teachers' expressed interest in the preparation of materials and improvement of specific teaching techniques, and to be based on activities in…

Issues pertaining to the validity of student ratings of teacher effectiveness, research on "educational seduction," and implications of the research for the evaluation and improvement of teaching are reviewed. Criteria that have been used to validate student ratings include student achievement, faculty ratings, self-ratings, research productivity,…

A learning style model, which identifies specific learning patterns of prospective teachers and teaching behaviors which relate to those identified learning patterns was tested on 20 female elementary education majors. The subjects were administered the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, which determined the dominant personality type (Sensing/Thinking,…

This bulletin contains 11 personal statements by K-12 social studies teachers from across the United States that reflect their philosophical approach to teaching social studies and focus on what they do in the classroom. Most of the chapters contain brief selections from classroom materials. The titles include: (1) "Following Our Forebears'…

Computer technology may be a powerful support for teaching through guided inquiry, but this process still depends on teachers who often find it difficult to carry it out in classrooms. This article examines the efforts of a group of secondary school geometry teachers to shift their instruction toward guided inquiry with the use of a computer…

This study investigated school effectiveness based on recent British and Australian advances in the understanding of student learning processes in natural settings via students' approaches to learning and their perceptions of teaching. The results were derived from a survey of 745 government school students, 380 Catholic school students, and 365…

This booklet profiles five elementary school teachers who were selected as the 1988-89 Laboratory Fellows by the Regional Laboratory for Educational Improvement of the Northeast and Islands. The Teacher Recognition Program conducted through the Small Schools Network of the Laboratory seeks to recognize outstanding teachers of thinking and…

The DICSIE (describe, interact, control, select, instruct, and evaluate) model provides a systematic approach to personalizing instruction in teacher education. First, the individual learning style of the student is determined and a description is given by the instructor of the teaching methods most commonly used in the classroom. Awareness of the…

Even while struggling with their own biases and values, communication scholars can and should teach a unit on ethics in the basic communication course. One possible approach begins on the cognitive level by describing four different orientations toward ethics: hedonistic, legalistic, altruistic, and situational. By working out case study…

The relationship between student achievement and student evaluation of instructors based on the match/mismatch of cognitive styles was examined. Students (N=161) and teachers (N=10) were administered the Group Embedded Figures Test during the semester. At the end of the course, teacher evaluations and students' scores were obtained and analyzed…

This paper discusses the central theoretical aspects of the "Languaging in the Content Areas" (LICA) thesis, intended to provide postelementary reading with a sense of definition and purpose compatible with contemporary needs and conditions. The objective of the LICA thesis is not merely to teach students how to read critically what has been…

The relationship between subject of instruction and the classroom behavior of teachers and pupils was assessed in this study. The study was conducted over a two-year period of observation of elementary grade classes. Two variables were investigated: individual pupil participation and teacher verbal behavior. Only two subjects, reading and…

This study focuses on the question of "emotional style," defined as the structure or lack of structure in the interaction between teacher and student. Characteristics of "open" and "structured" teachers and students are defined. It is hypothesized that a matching of teacher and student emotional style will result in…

This document examines the differences of cognitive styles and how they pertain to student performance and effective teaching. Persons identified as "field-dependent" people are particularly attuned and differentially attend to the social dimensions of their environment. Due to this orientation, these persons appear to be more skillful at learning…