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Dominative
Determines students behaviour/activities in the classroom.
Refuses to accept students suggestions/opinions.
Often shouts at students and reprimands/rebukes
Gives warnings frequently
Fails to facilitate students
Integrative
Always considers students suggestions.
Accepts different opinions from students.
Guides students in their tasks.
Takes part in classroom activities with the students.
Sympathizes students problems.
Gives permission or motivates them to try.
Hamachek (1974):
An effective teacher possesses humanitarian elements, likes to prank, fair, warm and good
natured.
Characteristics of a teacher who can teach effectively: patient, loving, likes his/her students,
appreciates and praises sincerely, positive and not arrogant and does not criticize with no
reason.
Static sampling
10 or 30 seconds each minute
Only records what happens in that time frame
Disadvantages: loss of information, inconsistent/inaccurate behaviour, unless observation
is made for a very long period.
Natural sampling
No time limit, recording of whats happening, change codes according to the events.
Flanders divides IAC into 10 categories (direct classroom recordings), using 3 seconds unit time
sampling.
Based on the notion of teacher directness or indirectness which is closely related to Andersons
dominative/integrative concept and Lewin, Lippitt and Whites authoritarian and democratic
roles among teachers.
Flanderss system contains 3 main sections:
Teacher talk
Student talk
Silence