Preservice secondary mathematics teachers taught short courses to prospective secondary teachers in other fields who needed to pass a mathematics test. (SD)

Author put himself in the place of the student and asked about the things he would try to learn and do. (Author/RK)

Students and their teacher had the interesting experience of visiting the Plymouth Plantation, a recreation of the Pilgrim settlement not far from the original site in Plymouth, and learned how the original Pilgrims lived while they developed their own character. (Author/RK)

Article dealt with the movie, Conrak, in the setting of two fictional letters: one to a young teacher whose headmaster's attitude is alternatively baffling and delighting him, and the other to the headmaster, worrying over the young teacher whose work is alternatively baffling and delighting him. (Author/RK)

The focus in the present study is on the determination of an individual's ability to assess a logical argument, rather than on his ability to deduce. (Author)

Article examined some of the problems a teacher might encounter in accepting an overseas teaching position. (Author/RK)

An exploratory analysis of four large educational data sets found evidence of schools and districts that consistently produced outstanding students, even after socioeconomic factors were controlled for. Outstanding Michigan schools had smaller classes, better-paid teachers, and more teachers with greater than five years experience. (Author)

Microteaching is designed 'to develop new teaching skills and refine old ones'. Does it work? (Editor)

A teacher at Maui Community College Learning Skills Lab writes of the difficulties in working with students with severe language difficulties. (PG)

This article relates some impressions of elementary education resulting from my encounters with primary schools in West Germany, Florida, Mexico and England. (Author)

In this literature review, the research on training methods in teacher education is examined and the major variables that have been shown to influence the development of teaching skills are identified. The position is taken that, of these variables, those that address conceptual outcomes are most important. The implications of these variables for…

A description is given of a cooperative program between the Brigham Young College of Education and nearby public high schools. In one instance, in 1978 a high school English teacher was invited to team teach a reading methods class with a faculty member in the College of Education. This endeavor was successful and the teacher continues to teach at…

The common theme uniting this collection of six essays is the deceiving simplicity of teaching. Their underlying purpose is to uncover the complexity of the craft as embodied in the two dominant outlooks on educational thought and practice: the "mimetic" and the "transformative." Discussions are presented on five crucial issues: (1) on knowing how…

The purposes of this study were to determine if relationships existed between teachers' knowledge about, attitude toward, and willingness to use microcomputers for instruction; and to determine if differences existed in teachers' willingness to use microcomputers based on teaching experience and grade level and subjects taught. Results of the…

Practical experiences have grown dramatically in teacher education programs, apparently from a general consensus of the rightness of such experiences as well as the vigorous criticisms of teacher education programs by practicing teachers. A review of research concerning practical experience in teacher education indicates that the knowledge and…