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Peer reviewedCriscuolo, Nicholas P. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1974
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Creativity, Exceptional Child Education, Gifted
Vukadinovic, Gordana Zindovic – Prospects, 1988
Discusses the importance of self-instruction to keep people current with the rapidly changing technology that characterizes the present industrial or mass culture. Describes a Yugoslavian project that combines a self-instruction course helped by an instructor using self-directed pupil activities that require students to apply the acquired…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Independent Study
Schmid, Jeannine – 1978
This paper briefly reviews criticisms directed against the Montessori method, and summarizes results of a survey of primary school teachers using the Montessori method in regular classrooms. Eight teachers, teaching daily in regular public school classrooms and enrolled in the Montessori Teacher Training Program of Buffalo on Saturdays, were asked…
Descriptors: Child Development, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Development, Educational Philosophy
Download full textALLENDER, JEROME S. – 1968
A SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS HAVE BEEN CARRIED OUT OVER A PERIOD OF 3 YEARS TO FIND MEANS FOR DESCRIBING INQUIRY BEHAVIOR IN GRADE SCHOOL STUDENTS AND TO TEST THE EFFECT OF TEACHING METHODS AND ENVIRONMENT ON THIS BEHAVIOR. INQUIRY ACTIVITY WAS TESTED BY HAVING CHILDREN PLAY THE ROLE OF A SMALL CITY MAYOR USING SPECIALLY DEVELOPED MATERIALS. THREE…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Elementary School Students, Independent Study, Individual Activities
Schlemmer, Phil; Schlemmer, Dori; Pernu, Caryn, Ed. – 1999
This book presents performance-based projects to provide elementary school students both the structure and the freedom to become actively engaged in their own learning. The approach is based on the concept of authentic learning, which advocates a relevant, real world experience to personally engage students in learning. The book is divided into…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Activity Units, Class Activities, Creative Activities
YEOMANS, EDWARD – 1968
THE LEICESTERSHIRE COUNTY (ENGLAND) EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM PROVIDES A LEARNING ATMOSPHERE IN WHICH EACH PUPIL CHOOSES HIS OWN ACTIVITIES AND WORKS IN A GIVEN SUBJECT AREA UNTIL HE IS READY TO CHANGE ACTIVITIES. THE SCHOOL SYSTEM HAS DROPPED THE TRADITIONAL ELEVEN-PLUS EXAMINATION, DESIGNED TO SELECT HIGHLY ABLE STUDENTS (ABOUT 1/5) FOR ACADEMIC…
Descriptors: Child Responsibility, Class Organization, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
Schlemmer, Phil; Schlemmer, Dori; Pernu, Caryn, Ed. – 1999
This book presents performance-based projects as a systematic way to provide middle school and high school students both the structure and the freedom to become actively engaged in their own learning. The approach is based on the concept of authentic learning, which advocates a relevant, real world experience to personally engage students in…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Activity Units, Class Activities, Creative Activities
