In separate articles under the same title, both authors stress the importance of students' feelings of self-esteem and well-being in the classroom. The frequency of interaction with teachers, which directly influences self-esteem, diminishes as children move toward ninth grade while attitude toward school and school subjects becomes increasingly…

Reviews the major ideas of humanistic psychology that have relevance for education. Provides practical suggestions for implementing these ideas in the high school history classroom. (JDH)

Notes that self-esteem remains an important factor in learning. Encourages detection of low self-esteem in students, teacher behavior aimed at increasing students' self-esteem, and promotion of a desirable classroom community. Specific steps include student participation in decision making and in cooperative games, individual invitations to join…

The development and implementation of a written instructional strategy for planned change leading to the integration of the personal growth dimension and the intellectual growth dimension in the classroom is described in this paper. The strategy, based on intervention by data survey feedback and problem solving, was utilized with five freshman…

As part of a continuing program designed to provide Nevada's school population with information that will facilitate greater awareness and understanding of past and present lifestyles and contributions of Native Nevadans, this curriculum guide might constitute a social studies unit on the history of Indian education for upper elementary and/or…

The Suggestive Accelerative Learning and Teaching Method uses aspects of suggestion and unusual styles of presenting material to accelerate classroom learning. The essence of this technique is the use of a combination of physical relaxation exercises, mental concentration and suggestive principles to strengthen a person's ego and expand his memory…

This seventh in a series of nine learning modules on instructional management is designed to assist secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers in identifying and using classroom procedures to develop self-discipline in students, and in developing the type of environment which allows learning to take place. The terminal objective for the…