Documented and evaluated in this report is the minischool approach used by the Advancement School to improve the quality of education in two Philadelphia School District junior high schools. Background information and the history of each school is provided to put into perspective the factors dealt with in this extension program. Considerable…

The pedagogical studies that are relevant to a theory of teacher leader behavior are surveyed. Numerous investigations of the similarities between leader and teacher behaviors tend to confirm the hypothesis that teaching is a type of leadership. One of the problems of developing a theory of teacher leader behavior is the difficulty of identifying…

Twenty more effective and twenty less effective teachers were studied to determine if they differed in the ways they plan for instruction. The effectiveness of the teachers was determined by their ability to affect gains in reading and mathematics over two weeks of instruction with a specially designed curriculum unit. Four variables were noted as…

Data obtained from 44 vocational teachers and 519 adult students included measures of student verbal gain, manual gain, satisfaction, and persistence, and of teachers' educational level, experience teaching adults, years of trade experience, age, mental ability, subject matter knowledge, teaching style, and number of teaching techniques used. The…

The growth of interest in personalized learning, which emphasizes the realization and development of the self-concept in the learning process, prompted educators to combine the Jungian psychological theories of Perceiving and Judging with the personality types measured by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to form a model for veiwing community…

In their presentation, at the start of the seminar, the authors note that their focus is on the relationship between cultural needs and the operation of the educational enterprise, and some potential contributions of psychological research to the formulation of educational and social policy. Their case rests on three arguments: (1) schooling has…

This teaching manual is the fifth in a series designed for use in bilingual/bicultural programs. The purpose of the manual is to acquaint teachers with both field sensitive and field independent teaching strategies, and to help them adjust their teaching styles to the learning styles of their students. This objective is considered vitally…

This study investigated relationships of evening college students' autonomy and succorance needs (or independence and dependence) to their orientations toward learning, preferred styles and methods of teaching, satisfaction with perceived styles and methods in class, and academic performance. Two hundred subjects at the University of North…

Sixty young men between 18 and 26 years of age and 60 within the 65-75 year age range, matched for verbal ability and socioeconomic status, were given two paired associate learning tasks differing in level of difficulty under neutral, supportive, and challenging instructions. Older persons revealed a greater performance decrement on the more…

A key concept of the Michigan State University model is the clinical behavior style of the teachers it produces. Teachers are expected to approach teaching as clinical practice and to stylize a particular set of activities: describing, analyzing, hypothesizing; prescribing, treating, and observing consequences. Training in the clinical approach…

The program outlined in this proposal describes various teaching techniques which are suited to the styles and strengths of disadvantaged students. The general approach is directed at convincing the disadvantaged student that he can learn and become educated without becoming a middle class stereotype--that he can retain his own identity. A "New…

During the 1971-72 school year, data was gathered on pre and post test scores for reading and mathematics achievement from 2 groups of mobile migrant children receiving supplementary educational services. The program, a part of the California Plan for the Education of Migrant Children (Title I, Elementary and Secondary Education Act), used 2…

Teachers need a framework for decision-making; this book supplies criteria against which they can weigh choices about alternative courses of action and encourages systematic instructional design by encouraging them to think about the overall educational effort. The underlying assumptions are that teachers overteach, that poor organization by the…

Suggestions are offered for constructing a test which would predict how a teacher would teach, thus providing school personnel officers, teacher certification agencies, and other clients with an index of the degree to which a candidate has mastered the content of teacher education. Three tasks in constructing this type of teacher examination are…

A comparison is drawn between norm-referenced (or competitive) and criterion-referenced testing procedures as used for the purpose of assessing and grading knowledge gained from teaching. It is argued that competitive or norm-referenced grading practices are sadistic, unethical, statistically unsound, and irrelevant to course objectives.…