The lessons learned by this book's authors, who observed literacy events in third- and fourth-grade classrooms, altered their vision of teaching and learning. The book shares their observations of how students engage in literacy events and construct meaning within these events, focusing on three factors that significantly influence the…

Noting the connection between the systematic observation of children's behavior and effective teaching, this book details experiences of early childhood practitioners to illustrate how observation helps teachers and caregivers become more effective in the child care center, preschool, family child care home, or elementary school classroom. The…

This book offers a plan for improved classroom practice through the supervisory process. It includes hands-on practices for developing a personalized supervision strategy, research-based and empirically tested strategies, field-tested tools and techniques for qualitative and quantitative observation, a comprehensive resource of traditional and…

Teacher-child interaction in an open classroom was observed and teacher behavior and its resultant effectiveness was rated by means of a coding system developed early in the observation process. (JB)

Reports research attempting to move beyond the discussion of the cultural gap hypothesis based on secondary data analysis and subject it to a scrutiny based on direct observation of classroom interaction within an urban black school. (Author/JM)

Paper represents an attempt to systematically describe the behavior of the teacher in an informal, or open classroom. (Author)

Discusses methodologies used to observe children at work in science classrooms and to handle data collected from such observations. Audience, observational mechanisms, and research strategies are considered in separate sections. Methodologies as applied to the Learning in Science Project are also considered. (JN)

In reference to a preceding article by Bogdan, outlines an "alternative model" for the teaching of educational fieldwork to graduate students. The course described is an introduction to fieldwork based on the concept of the classroom as the most fundamental unit in contemporary educational systems. (GC)

Examines the cross-age peer tutoring process from two perspectives--descriptive analysis of verbal interactions, and documentation of academic and attitudinal progress. Particular attention is given to how the peer tutoring process (a) affects friendship and a give-and-take attitude between the tutor and the tutee and (b) serves as a motivating…

Presents an observational system that discriminates between personal and impersonal (neutral) verbal behavior of teachers and students in the foreign language class. Reports preliminary findings on the relationship of these in-class behavior variables and the perception of teacher effectiveness by both supervisors and students. (EKN)

Trained observers visited classrooms taught by university lecturers receiving either low, medium, or high student ratings. The observers estimated the frequency of occurrence of 60 specific, low-inference teaching behaviors. Significant differences were found for 26 individual behaviors. Three factors (clarity, enthusiasm, and rapport) differed…