The purpose of this book is to help teachers learn about promising materials, methods and techniques for teaching creative thinking and problem solving in their classrooms. Information about teaching methods or techniques which can be readily adapted by the teacher to fit any grade level and subject area are presented. Specific directions on how…

Cites the advantages of studying the group process through the historical example and notes specific principles that students can draw from these models to apply to their own discussion groups. (MH)

Discusses the use, types, and advantages of simulation activities in problem-solving instruction. Reviews a research study of simulation in medical education. (MLH)

Explored the relationship between knowing how to think and teaching students to think. The findings indicated that development of pupil's intellectual capacities depend on an adequate assimilation of general methods of thinking and that psychology, logic, and pedagogy can today provide the teacher with the technical resources necessary to make…

It is the thesis of this paper that when a student discovers that he has something to say and he feels a need to say it, he will learn to write. Writing can serve as therapy, but not when taught by drill and correction. (Author/SJL)

The educational setting and the current problems which face school librarians as they serve library clientele are discussed. (Author)

Topics covered include alternate methods for finding LCM and GCF, imaginative word problems, and a primes-breakdown method of factoring quadratics. (MP)

Provides a detailed description of an experiment involving a particular method of teaching poetry to a class of high ability boys and draws attention to some common educational research procedures and their attendant problems. (DD)

This paper explores an action-learning orientation to the study of human relations subject matter in the form of a problem-solving methodology. A rationale for the use of problem-solving techniques in the classroom, as well as a seven-stage illustrative model, is presented. (Author)

Discusses causes for the problems in language instruction in France, and offers suggestions for improving the situation, including greater communication among language professionals, greater flexibility to instructional change, and greater attention to the student. (AM)

Eight classroom problems dealing with number concepts are presented and accompanied by suggestions for teacher use. (MP)

This problem solving strategy is illustrated by examples from the fields of algebra, trigonometry, geometry, and calculus. (MP)

Suggestions for counteracting the effect of large enrollments in freshman personal health care classes include alternate scheduling of large group/small group meetings and the use of taped presentations by guest speakers. (MJB)

Teaching and learning can take place only when teacher and pupil understand and share beliefs in the basic concepts of what is being communicated. (JD)

An analysis of methods of teaching children to solve verbal arithmetic problems is presented together with transcriptions of interviews in which children solve problems by reference to problem types. (SD)