Students in elementary art programs, designed using Utah's new official art guide "Art Is Elementary," demonstrated significant gains in cognitive achievement compared with students in regular art classes. The new art guide changed the focus of art teaching from a projects approach to an emphasis upon valid art concepts. (RM)

Drawing on the exam responses from a graduate teacher education course, this paper analyzes four general difficulties teachers have in implementing inductive teaching methods. Based on Piaget's model of how children learn, inductive teaching is an instructional methodology that begins with concrete instances of a concept, and encourages learners…