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Peer reviewedRussell, Dorothy; And Others – Education, 1982
The artfully inviting teacher utilizes both personal and professional teaching strategies and is thus most successful at maximizing student development. Personally inviting behaviors send messages which communicate caring and positive regard. Professionally inviting behaviors increase the recipients' efficacy, competence, and independence.…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Individual Development, Student Development, Teacher Behavior
Haertig, Martha F. – Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1988
In teaching others about their enrichment research projects, gifted students develop instructional skills useful in many contexts. The model MAT (Making All-of-us Teachers) Program uses a five-part process: (1) thinking about teaching; (2) choosing a lesson topic; (3) planning the lesson; (4) delivering the lesson; and (5) review and evaluation.…
Descriptors: Gifted, Instructional Effectiveness, Peer Teaching, Secondary Education
My Transition from Conventional to More Developmentally Appropriate Practices in the Primary Grades.
Peer reviewedPelander, Jim – Young Children, 1997
Describes a primary teacher's experience with implementing developmentally appropriate practice. Documents the process of changing teaching methods, abandoning ability grouping in reading, giving children significant choices, following children's progress, staying informed and sharing with colleagues, informing parents, and evaluating teaching…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Educational Strategies, Instructional Effectiveness
Peer reviewedWolff, Mary Anne – Educational Leadership, 1986
Recommends the frame of reference method in helping students learn to recognize bias in the questions an author asks, the evidence gathered, and the conclusions drawn. Describes a high school writing-anthropology unit on the Kung San society. Discusses the potentials, problems, and school-linked constraints in using frame of reference models. (IW)
Descriptors: Anthropology, Bias, Classroom Techniques, Critical Reading
Amonashvili, Shalva Aleksandrovich – Soviet Education, 1988
Offers excerpts from Shalva Amonashvili's 1983 teaching guide, "Hello Children." Includes chapters on Amonashvili's analysis of Day No. 122 in the school year and reflections on the last day. The guide is based on Amonashvili's experiences teaching six-year olds that incorporated his love for children and humanistic teaching methods. (CH)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Education, Experimental Teaching, Foreign Countries
Weikart, Phyllis S.; Carlton, Elizabeth B. – 1995
The eight chapters in this book explain a teaching model to help students develop their kinesthetic intelligence through purposeful movement education. The major focus is the kindergarten through third grade child, but because in movement one can be a "beginner" at any age, movement experiences of both older and younger learners are occasionally…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Body Image, Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Education
