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…

Presents descriptions of several lessons based on the goals of achievingself understanding, understanding of others, and being understood by others. (TO)

Careful consideration should be given to general and specific objectives before initiating a spelling program. (JH)

Co-article response to Mr. Ferguson's article in the same publication rebutting the objections he raised to the use of behavioral objectives in the teaching of English. (RB)

Presents a rationale for teaching creative dramatics, including objectives, techniques, and activities. (RB)

Describes the Living Curriculum,'' an inservice teacher education program in Tennessee. (MM)

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)

Describes the objectives and teaching approach to be used in a college or inservice course in psycholinguistics and reading. (DD)

The Dade County, Florida public school system prepared this description of a course which is designed to provide students the opportunity to acquire competencies in the utilization of various resources of the library, including the card catalog, periodical indexes, reference materials and audiovisual resources. The course exposes the student to…

Describes a proposed senior years English program, plans for piloting an English language arts program, and progress made in implementing a kindergarten through grade 12 English language arts program. (AEA)

Although grammar has its place in secondary education, teachers have been consistently premature in their zeal to impose order and precision on students' understanding of language through grammar. This paper argues that romance demands and deserves a special place in the language curriculum. Romance encompasses the humanistic aspects of language…

This language arts minicourse guide for Lampeter-Strasburg (Pennsylvania) High School contains a topical outline of an introduction to a poetry course. The guide includes a list of twenty course objectives; an outline of the definitions, the stanza forms, and the figures of speech used in poetry; a description of the course content and concepts to…

This language arts minicourse guide for Lampeter-Strasburg (Pennsylvania) High School contains a topical outline of a course on the novel. The guide includes a list of seven course objectives; an outline of the elements to be studied from eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth century novels; a description of novels and concepts to be studied in…

The purpose of this study is the development of specific suggestions and methodologies for the efficient as well as successful development of creative dramatics activities in the elementary school curriculum. The design for this study was drawn from curriculum objectives and goals identified in "Teaching Agreements for Primary and Intermediate…