This annotated bibliography comprises 13 items in the ERIC system concerning improving teacher effectiveness. Items cited discuss strategies including an objectives-based instructional program combined with mastery learning, teacher self-assessment techniques, administrators' role in helping teachers adopt more effective practices, improving teachers' questioning abilities, computer-assisted active learning, coaching of teachers in inservice programs, a competency-based instructional improvement program, and structured conversation as a source of professional growth. Theoretical analyses include characteristics of classroom effectiveness, the inability of researchers to establish the extent of teachers' contribution to learning, teaching supervision, and principals' leadership in school improvement. (MJL)