This article describes an attempt to implement explicit classroom objectives, and presents the instructors' reactions to the experience. (RC)

The author has succeeded in holding students' interest in poetry by comparing and contrasting traditional poets with familiar modern, even pop'' poets. (PG)

Teachers who state lesson plan topics in the form of a problem, who state objectives in terms of specific skill performances expected, and who construct test questions to assess the skills involved are taking important steps towards maximizing their success as inquiry teachers. (Author)

A teaching unit is presented, using the collage as a teaching technique in geography instruction, emphasizing unit objectives, teaching procedures, and evaluation methods. (JB)

Describes a one or two night camping trip for fifth graders that is part of the Madison, Wisconsin forest program, created to give students a concentrated study of nature and provide the experiences of group living. (RB)

Described is an elective course in Creative Thinking in the Maple Heights, Ohio, school system. (MB)

Experience and insight derived from teaching literature are presented. (Editor)

Discusses the reasons for the apparent reluctance to set up separate formal courses on translation theory, citing the difficulties involved in getting appropriate materials and devising the appropriate methods. For the syllabus designer, proposes a course outline that specifies course objectives, discusses selection and sequencing of topics, and…

Beginning in August 2006, the author modified a school law course by moving from fifteen (15) weekly class meetings to eight (8) weekly class meetings and seven (7) online sessions. The blended or hybrid delivery system was adopted as part of a pilot project sponsored by the university's Institute for Teaching and Learning Excellence. The course…

The operationalizing of all learning goals is constantly required in the teaching of English. The article deals critically with this requirement. Arguments for and against an extreme operationalizing are systematized, contradictions are revealed, and goal areas in the teaching of English at Secondary grade 2, which are suited or unsuited as points…

The booklet, designed as a practical guide, deals with the preparation of instructional objectives for teaching and testing. Emphasized are the statement of instructional objectives as learning outcomes and the definition of the objectives in terms of specific types of behavior (knowledge or skills) expected of students at the end of the learning…

This article presents a rationale for instructional variety based on the differences in the learning style of the students and on the objectives of the curriculum. A models of teaching approach for planning is described. A long-term professional development plan to implement teaching models for instructional variety is presented. (MT)

The primary source document from the Kiangsi Soviet period of Chinese communist history discusses general principles for the educational method of Soviet education in China during the early 1930's, with special emphasis on the specific teaching methods used for each of the courses at a Lenin primary school. (RM)