This article argues that in order to encourage English graduates to expand their horizons, educators should diversify the range of assessments and offer greater opportunities for public engagement. Through a detailed analysis of the final-year elective, "Literature & Medicine," the authors explore the ways in which the design and…

A problem exists in grading practices accurately measuring student achievement. Both students' academic achievements and nonacademic factors, such as effort, homework completion, and behaviors continue to factor into grades. This combination can lead to inaccurate representation of true academic ability, rendering a grade useless. While…

Drawing on the expertise of colleagues in technology and filmmaking, high school teacher Joe Bucolo helps students demonstrate the critical comprehension, mastery, and creative insight that transpire from close study of Shakespeare's plays. Production Teams examine the context and language of Shakespeare's scenes, interview an expert, and address…

Author is co-director of the Tri-University Project; article includes excerpts from the Catalog. (SP)

Class exploration and a writing assignment on "quality" help students to understand the aim of the writing course. (DD)

Points out that teaching technical writing to students whose specialties differ can be more interesting than teaching the conventional composition courses. (RB)

The author has succeeded in holding students' interest in poetry by comparing and contrasting traditional poets with familiar modern, even pop'' poets. (PG)

Suggests three long-range, humanistic goals of English teachers for their students--imagination, power, and understanding; a paper presented at convention of National Council of Teachers of English (Washington, D.C., November 28, 1969). (RD)

Examines the invitations and speech situations implicit in lyric poetry that often alienate students with little poetry experience. Presents five conditions English teachers can provide that will make poetry more accessible to students, particularly the invention needed to accept the "invitation" of a poem. (HTH)

This report describes the functions teachers attribute to their lesson plans submitted to supervisors, and their private, unsubmitted, written plans. Sixteen experienced mathematics and English teachers in two secondary schools participated. All teachers in one school were required to submit written plans on a weekly basis; in the other school, no…

This guide contains descriptions and objectives for courses in newspaper writing, advanced newspaper writing, and yearbook journalism for high school students. The course objectives stress the importance of concise writing, accurate reporting, and polishing of special skills such as photography, feature-writing, and editorial writing. The document…

These instructional objectives, written by Thomas Gripp and Anna Marie Thames have been selected from materials used at Golden West College (California). These objectives are offered simply as samples that may be used where they correspond to the skills, abilities, and attitudes instructors want their students to acquire. These objectives may also…

A discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of using an anthology as a text in a literature course. (RD)

Argues that the proliferation of teaching methods and materials in recent years has resulted in low quality instruction and concludes that the "over-production" of freshman English will cease when teachers begin to feel that what they "teach is worth the trouble." (RB)

Discusses his reasons for objecting to the use of behavioral objectives in education. Article is in response to Robert Blake's article on Behavioral Objectives and the Teaching of English" in English Education, Winter 1971. (RB)