Discusses ways that the vocational teacher can provide a good environment for learning. Techniques include (1) knowing the students, (2) planning instruction, (3) preparing physical surroundings, (4) fostering good relationships with and among students, (5) varying strategies, (6) providing praise, and (7) sponsoring a vocational student…

This article concerns the learning experiences of a 16-year-old girl who spent part of her school day observing nursery school children. It relates her successes and failures in communicating with the children and reveals her gradual awareness of the needs of those students, as written in her diary. (MA)

In extracts from papers to be given at a conference of the Programme for Reform in Secondary Education (PRISE), this report suggests that schools have too narrow and static a concept of work. (Editor/RK)

How much should we rely on memorization, rigour and hard practice in operating the educative process? What kind of subject-matter, in what kind of sequence, does the modern child need to be confronted with in order to stand the best chance of developing his or her powers of understanding to the fullest? (Author/RK)

Describes a management plan for thirty individualized learning studios in the general music class. (Editor/RK)

One theme of current research about higher education students of mathematics concerns those who fail. At our institution, some of the entrants are students who have previously failed in mathematics; others come to us with a comparatively weak mathematical background. Most of these students go on to become confident and effective mathematicians,…

This digest in Spanish offers a snapshot of the standards movement: its origins, the definitions of standards and which ones matter, its successes at the district and state levels, the backlash against the movement, and possible policy directions. While a broad coalition of constituencies has embraced standards-based reform as a means of improving…

The school environment must create a rich, beautiful, dynamic, meaningful experience for students to learn; however, architects, school boards, and the state focus almost exclusively only on the building when making design decisions. This document lists specific aspects to developing a visionary campus: one that provides a three-dimensional…

This research project explored the manner in which veteran school principals learn of, and become committed to, new perspectives and practices. Personal stories of formative and transformative change from the careers of 23 school principals were collected and analyzed comparatively. Four analytic frameworks emerged from the project and provide a…

This digest offers a snapshot of the standards movement: its origins, the definitions of standards and which ones matter, its successes at the district and state levels, the backlash against the movement, and possible policy directions. While a broad coalition of constituencies has embraced standards-based reform as a means of improving public…

Human Resource Development conceptualization includes three categories according to different kinds of learning experiences: training (job-related learning experiences), education (individual-related learning experiences, and development (organizational-related learning experiences). Five implications which result from applying this HRD concept…

In this article, evaluation by the music teacher is discussed and a list of different kinds of child growth is presented. (Author/RK)

The Detroit Public Schools' Children's Museum offers a unique service for any individual or group interested in puppetry as a learning experience. (Author)

If teachers would only step back and watch and listen to children as they learn, even as they play games and work together making things, they could begin to see a pattern of thought emerging that is unique for each child. (Author)

A learning experience developed by the author with three phases of death is described as utilized in the undergraduate nursing program at the University of Texas School of Nursing. (DS)