TEACHER LOCUS OF CONTROL: WHO'S RESPONSIBLE?

ROLE models; STUDENT attitudes; ATTITUDE (Psychology); PERSONALITY; INFLUENCE; TEACHER-student relationships; CLASSROOM environment; CLASSROOM management

Students need positive role models to provide guidance and assistance in acquiring the personality traits that will prepare and enable them to function positively and effectively in society now, and in the future. A well-recognized objective of education is the preparation of students who are able to function independently and who can initiate themselves to action. Schools are acknowledged as one of the most powerful influences in the lives of young people. Those who serve within the schools are also powerful sources of influence. Educators, by virtue of their relationship to students in the classroom, become the potentially most influential adults in students' lives, second only to parents. As such, they become the role models that students will accept as patterns for their own futures. One goal of the educational profession, and particularly teacher educations programs, should be the preparation of teachers who are internally oriented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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