Presents a self-scoring ideology attitude survey that can be taken by teachers to help them identify their belief systems and the possible influences of these belief systems on classroom content and teaching style. (WD)

As a teacher, the humanist develops a learning climate that is positive, enriching, and psychologically nourishing. A humanist's teaching style reflects psychological wholeness and is characterized by deep respect for the learner, effective communication, acceptance of learners, concentration on the needs and feelings of learners, and a liberating…

The author describes his uplifting and enlightening experience as an English major in the mid-1940s, specifically as a student of John Crowe Ransom at Kenyon College in Ohio. (KC)

A charismatic teaching style turns the dance studio or classroom into a theatrical setting in which the dance instructor is "star" and the students are "supporting players." (CJ)

Examines the personality, educational views, and teaching style of author C. S. Lewis, who lectured at Oxford University. (SJL)

Successful students use a learning style that involves thinking deeply about what they are studying. Several teaching techniques that can encourage this are discussed. (Author/MLF)

Describes what one high school writing teacher would do to make a writing workshop work effectively. (RL)

The author briefly analyzes three classes of teacher behavior--skills, strategies, and style--for their effects on teaching as it is learned, practiced, and studied. (CL)

Attention to trainees' learning styles can enhance training effectiveness. Trainers should strive to improve the fit between their training style and trainees' cognitive styles and develop different kinds of learning environments: affectively complex, perceptually complex, symbolically complex, or behaviorally complex. (SK)

Debunks 10 myths about instructor training: platform skills are supremely important; enthusiasm is essential; technical people are terrible instructors; practice makes perfect; videotaping improves skills; watching good instructor is good way to learn; student evaluations will improve instructors; good instructors can overcome bad design; good…

Survey responses from teachers of hearing-impaired children indicated that, although 39 percent of all respondents and 59.1 percent of signing respondents reported that they used an artificial sign system in the classroom, only 8.1 percent of all respondents and 12.3 percent of signing respondents may actually be using one. (Author/CB)

Discusses how the author was influenced by poet William Stafford. Discusses what she learned about the value of writing with her students, of responding to writing, of being open to all the possibilities a writing classroom might present. (RS)

Semistructured interviews were held with foreign-born university students: 12 from Africa, 10 from Asia, and 8 from South America and the Caribbean. Respect for authority was highly valued in their cultures, a quality U.S. children were thought to lack. They thought U.S. teachers gave impractical and abstract answers. Authoritarian parenting was…