If asked to formulate the goals of the educational process, most teachers would include the nourishment of intellectual curiosity, encouragement of independent learners, and development of more complex thinking processes. Yet instructors' behaviors such as the six described in this paper militate against the achievement of these goals.
Those who sincerely desire to examine and analyze their own teaching behaviors face a problem - the evanescence and multi-dimensional aspects of the teaching-learning relationship. Capturing the classroom behaviors of teachers and students on closed-circuit television with instant-replay features offers one solution. Utilizing such criteria as the six patterns described in this paper - insufficient wait-time, the rapid-reward, the programmed answer, non-specific feedback questions, the teacher's ego-stroking and classroom climate, and fixation at a low-level of questioning - teachers can analyze their own behaviors and examine the effects of their actions on student learning. Such self-analysis can be the beginning of behavioral change.