Effective teaching is systematic and well planned and student learning depends not only on student-based factors such as ability and prior knowledge, but also on the teaching context and on good management. Often, students need to be supported in gaining mastery in skills and new concepts. This paper outlines six examples of providing World Wide…

Talking with others, especially people with different viewpoints, about matters of public and common concern is a basic pro-democracy skill and act. For that reason, teaching young people how to participate more effectively in discussions of controversial public issues (CPI) has long been a major goal of social studies educators. In most social…

These proceedings contain papers presented at the Annual Conference on the Undergraduate Teaching of Psychology sponsored by the Psychology Department of the State University of New York, Farmingdale. Following an introduction and the conference program, the papers are: (1) "Developing an Undergraduate Course in Multimedia Applications in…

To get a preliminary understanding of how mathematics methods courses are taught, this study examined course syllabi from as wide a range of public and private universities as possible. Mathematics methods course syllabi from 200 randomly selected members of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE) were requested. Following the…

An interdisciplinary course can offer new dimensions to both teaching and learning, but along with freedom there must be discipline. (Editor)

Describes a college program inaugurated at Yale University in 1972 entitled The Literature Major'' in which literature is studied as a process. (RB)

The history department at Fordham University in 1968 inaugurated a one semester course stressing a few historical areas in depth, deemphasizing breadth of knowledge and emphasizing historical methodology and historiography. (Editor)

The writer believes that the history professor's major objectives should be to provide the student with leads to more leads in the study of history to introduce himself to the world of research methodology and historiography, and to teach him to teach himself. (Author)

Award-winning instructional materials analyzed to determine the relationship between the types of teaching techniques and the specific instructional objectives and economics course content. (MF)

A class position paper was a success in providing "relevance" in a course in American Foreign Policy. (Editor)

Use of programmed text creates a new course design that increases student motivation and extends the dimensions of the course. (IR)