Writing teachers notice how students who succeed with their written projects often do so after they have moved to a kind of anger either with themselves or the project, with external stimuli, or with a general sense of injustice. They are stimulated by the emotion to creative problem solving, and as an effect, they may succeed at eliminating the…

Global education is a relatively new term in the education world. It brings together two strands of educational thinking: worldmindedness and child-centeredness. This document offers strategies for implementing global education into the curriculum by considering its infusion and integration. Activities presented in the book offer ideas and…

The failure of the "open classroom" concept of the 1960's has not diminished the need for researchers to continue to look at learning and teaching to better understand how educational spaces can be improved for everyone that uses them. This document summarizes presentations made at the 1997 American Institute of Architects (AIA)…

For the past eight years postgraduate science teachers in training (approximately 50 each year) have been given Assessment of Performance Unit (APU) questions under strict test conditions as part of an initial learning experience in an education course. The APU questions were originally devised to explore the range of understanding of 15-year-old…

This book presents a new method for English Language Arts teachers to assess student learning using authentic assessment techniques. It instructs on the implementation of the processes of Hypothesizing and Testing on a one-on-one basis, in order to better understand how children learn. Section 1 ("What Is the Hypothesis-Test Process?")…

Considers some of the contradictory issues in developing public education. It examines the question of how great the power of the individual should be versus that of the state in the matter of learning responsibilities. (RK)

Described the effect music implementation has had upon the curriculum of an open school. (RK)

Describes a program of educational improvement wherein the community and teacher interacted to save precious time in the classroom and enhanced the relationship of parents and educators. (RK)

A look at one method of analyzing the percentage of time spent in various activities and functions as one example of how teachers and other educational personnel might examine the processes and experiences of the classroom to get some indication of what learning outcomes are being fostered. (Author)

Author attempts to understand the dimensions of the teaching art. He examines common sense and the cumulative teaching experience as two facets of that art. (Author/RK)

Article considers the newest instructional aids and trends in community colleges. (RK)

This chapter describes the theoretical and methodological foundations of behavior modification, the behavioral analysis of the retarded child and teaching programs for retarded children. (Author/RK)

Reviews the developments in communications and educational psychology that have influenced present educational media strategies and shows how recent breakthroughs in learning theory and media research offer a new direction in the design and use of instructional media. (Author/JM)