With the advent of Common Core standards that focus on speaking and listening, discussion should be a tool in every elementary teacher's tool belt. As they discuss a topic, elementary students learn not just the content, but also the skills and social norms they need to become contributing members of our society. Discussion helps students to…

Discusses the characteristics and appropriate uses of objectives in teaching and argues that non-behavioral objectives (like behavioral objectives) are a valuable educational tool. (JR)

Discusses the use of behavioral objectives in teaching creative writing and presents examples helpful to the classroom teacher. (RB)

Shows how task analysis helps reading teachers to understand the learning processes that are required for developing specific comprehension skills. Gives an example whereby task analysis is applied to teaching children to remember the sequential events from a reading selection. (RL)

Requests successful classroom teaching activities for publication. Three activities are included for review. (BJD)

A "dial a strategy" device for adding variety to classroom teaching is described. Four concentric, rotating disks of decreasing size offer 4,096 possible combinations of suggestions for student thinking skills, class activities, teaching strategies, and behavioral objectives. (MJL)

This book provides material to design and carry out a health science program at the elementary level with outcomes which are clearly defined and measurably effective. Chapter one describes health problems that justify the school health program. In chapters two and three the processes of curriculum and the sources of data that are basic to…

This report, written by a task force of specialists in elementary art education, focuses on potentials and problems confronting art educators as they identify their roles and directions in elementary schools. Emphasis is upon involvement on the part of teachers, administrators, and community cultural resources in developing an effective art…

This study reports the results of a project testing the extent to which a systematic analysis of objectives, procedures, and evaluation can benefit literature teaching in the Swedish Comprehensive School (the compulsory nine-year school for pupils between seven and sixteen years of age). Following earlier reports on goal document and requirement…

Questions the value of teaching grammar to children on theoretical and practical grounds, and proposes an emphasis on teaching usage in varied communication situations. (RN)