Attempts to evaluate several sources of information found in students' cumulative folders on teachers' expectancy sets. Types of information included for evaluation consisted of the child's degree of attractiveness, ability, sex, and family background. (Author/RK)

Analyzed factorially various theoretically derived measures of conceptual systems functioning and several proposed measures and correlations. (Author/RK)

Investigates the relationship between Rotter's (1966) Internality-Externality Scale and Kohlberg's (1971) Morality Scale. Specifically addresses the question of whether Rotter's internal individual will be functioning at a higher level of Kohlber's stages of morality than the external individual. (Author/RK)

Focuses on selecting learning experiencing which allow students direct involvement in the discussion of issues most important to them. Reports research findings from a 1971 study of marital role expectations of high school students in a large Alberta city and outlines teaching strategies which utilize this data. (Author/RK)

Compares and measures differences in self-concept and attitude toward school between ninth-grade girls who had received group or individual counseling over a 15-week period and girls who had not been counseled. (Author/RK)

Examines whether or not teachers employed in the same settings could agree with each other concerning expressed optimal educational strategies for preschoolers, looks at their behavior in those settings, and studies the relationship of teachers' attitudes and behaviors among a number of settings purporting to derive from the same conceptual…

The Teacher Year Alternative was a nine-month teacher preparation program conducted by the University of Colorado stressing the processes of self-knowledge and self-use, both developed through: (1) personal-psychological growth experiences, (2) interpersonal skills and sensitivity, (3) socio-cultural awareness, (4) classroom techniques, (5) role…

The Lolo experience involved 34 Teacher Year Alternative (TYA) students in a week-long field experience, during which they were paired with inservice teachers, observed their work, and then assumed full classroom duties while the teachers participated in a three-day workshop on humanistic approaches for classroom teaching. (MB)

"Blocking" is an alternative model for teacher education in which faculty take existing courses and field experiences, integrate the learning concepts, and through variable time structuring, mode flexibility, synthesis of theory and practice, and experiential instruction present a "block" of consecutive, team-taught courses. (MB)

PTEP engages both teacher and student in analyzing student needs and forming an educational program based on student choices, using (1) repeated feedback and counseling, (2) assignment of instructional tasks contingent upon student characteristics, and (3) self-observation and feedback on the student's teaching behavior. (MB)

Advantages of a full year program of teacher preparation over more traditional approaches include total immersion in a professional sequence, allowance for extended and varied field experiences, and greater flexibility in scheduling programs and activities. (MB)

Team teaching, flexible-modular scheduling, a variety of field experiences, and professional semesters are strategies implemented in the Colorado State University teacher preparation program within the last year. (MB)

The Childhood Education Program is a teacher education effort based upon long-term field experience, substantive areas of study (curriculum, methods, etc., taught over a long period of time) and a seminar that acts as psychological "home base" for socializing, problem discussion, suggestions, complaints, and recordkeeping. (MB)

The goal of teacher education should be the production of a skilled, humane, self-directed promoter of learning, who can continually adapt and innovate in a changing world. (MB)

Teacher education should concentrate on developing a whole, vital being, with an active body, an alert mind, and a healthy soul. (MB)