Thoroughly discusses teaching strategies for a literature packet entitled "Personality Sketch." (DF)

A review of psychology teaching in American high schools during the past decade shows that while there were many problems--e.g., polarized opinion about goals and related curriculum content and teaching methods, inadequate teacher education, and an ambivalent interface with professional psychology--there was also movement toward their partial…

Discusses an explicit method for applying deconstruction--a philosophical approach to literary criticism originated by Derrida--in the introductory literature course and shows how to maintain the system's challenging and intellectual rigor, while avoiding much of its potentially offputting terminology and its tendency toward subjective word play.…

Suggests some changes in teaching perspectives that might provide more satisfactory rhetorical assignments and situations for students. (CRH)

Summarizes major court cases that have provided some sense of the extent to which teachers may legitimately select course content and teaching methods. (RBW)

Examined are inadequacies of the eclectic or contextualist classroom principle, defined as a philosophy of art education which selects scholarly art content offerings related to the production, criticism, and history of art as it relates to the school environment or context present in a particular time and place. (RM)

Change is a subject of ever-growing importance for public administration. Discussed are six major perspectives recommended as categories to be combined in various ways to construct graduate courses on change. Also presented are sample exercises for use with doctoral and master's students undertaking the study of change. (RM)

Options for the health educator who has decided to present information about the development and risk of nuclear arms are discussed. Educational resources on the subject and points where the topic might be brought up in class are noted. (PP)

Some of the methods used in teaching a French class composed of about 20 children classified as slow learners with an average reading age of 6 plus are described. Emphasis was on listening skills and background knowledge. (RM)

How can instructional designers create executive education, seminar style (non-credit) courses that are short (one to two hours) but still provide a meaningful learning experience for managers and executives in an organization? Engaging and motivating learners in short courses without traditional assessment formats or external motivators such as…

This thesis focuses on the espoused beliefs, values, and attitudes of experienced A-Level Biology teachers in relation to the teaching of controversial biological issues. Of major interest is the thinking behind what the teachers in this study regard as the possibilities and problems for the teaching of controversial issues given the teaching…

This paper aims to answer the questions of when and how authentic materials should be used in EFL classrooms, and how cultural content may be included in the curriculum. To address these questions, the paper is organized in two parts. In the first part, the definition of authentic materials is given. Then advantages and disadvantages of the use of…