A pronounced teaching bias away from the left side of the classroom (teacher's right) was observed in a time-sampling study of 19 teachers. Six male and 13 female teachers showed an instructional orientation toward the classroom right (teacher's left), and center. Teacher's relative inattention to students seated on the left of the classroom may be accounted for by teachers being conditioned to monitor students in the center and to the left, stable differences in left-right cerebral hemispheric attentional control or ease of classroom instruction.
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