This article: (1) describes the characteristics and duration of transitions between units of classroom activities; and (2) investigates how transitions are achieved by three effective junior high school teachers. (CB)

Matching learning styles and teaching methods may help students develop to their fullest capabilities. A brief historical view of research on teaching methods is offered, and various learning and teaching styles are defined and categorized. Future predictions focus on improved classroom management, increased student involvement, and changes in…

This article discusses problems with the learning style-based education paradigm and recommends a six-part approach for matching learning and teaching styles. (DF)

A practice-to-theory approach of matching models helps teachers increase self-knowledge and awareness of their students. Participants discuss personal teaching style, students, expected learning outcomes, teaching approaches, matching models, and then restate their teaching style. A teacher's response to these exercises is presented as an example.…

A Canadian secondary school teacher relates how reflecting on her teaching decisions through action research enabled her to cope with teaching a course in an unfamiliar subject area. (IAH)

Describes a dispositional conception of thinking, presenting a view of what good thinking dispositions look like and what they are made of. The article compares different models of teaching (teaching as transmission and as enculturation) and examines the extent to which they provide adequate guidelines for teaching thinking dispositions. (SM)

If schools are to value minority students and support their academic success and cultural integrity, reformers must examine the knowledge of successful culturally relevant teachers of students of color. The leadership and example of such teachers is generally missing in current educational reform. The paper presents two restructuring schools'…