Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" speech is presented in this paper and shown to be an effective vehicle for helping students discover the power of language and of literature. The paper first discusses the potentially destructive way English teachers sometimes tell students about "hidden meanings" in long and complex works…

This study was conducted to investigate the hypothesis that science teaching, properly done, could have an effect on language usage among elementary school students. A population of 14 fourth-grade classrooms was randomly divided into experimental and control groups. All teachers attended workshops for 90 minutes every two weeks throughout the…

This environmental education guide focuses on several aspects of an environmental education program. The guide is divided into seven sections. Lesson Plans for Environmental Investigations is designed to help students take an in-depth look at different component parts of the environment. Developing an Environmental Education Plan includes…

The problem investigated in this study was to determine if any relationship existed between the methods of instruction used in an astronomy institute for secondary school teachers for the instruction of a certain set of concepts and the instructional preferences of the teachers concerning those concepts. Inquiry and verification methods of…

This study determined the effects of the opportunity to acquire a questioning strategy related to content-oriented values clarification inquiry and investigated whether teachers given the same objective of incorporating values clarification into their on-going content-related lessons could do so without receiving training in an appropriate…

ReQuest is a reciprocal questioning technique in which the teacher serves as a model of questioning behavior for the student. Following a briefing period by the teacher, the activity begins with the student and teacher silently reading the first sentence of a story. Teacher and student exchange questions on a sentence-by-sentence reading of the…

After participating in an inservice workshop designed to improve question-asking skills, nine teachers conducted discussion lessons based on science history stories selected from a fourth-grade reading series. Pupils within each class were randomly assigned to one of two groups. One group participated in discussion lessons that involved the…

This study sought a consensus among educational, lay, and political groups on opinions concerning the importance of the skills developed in the professional courses included in teacher education programs in Kansas. The extent to which different groups were willing to modify initial opinions in light of total sample consensus was noted. The value…

This investigation studied that relationship between structured teacher-student verbal interaction and critical thinking ability of students in an introductory course in general college biology. This interaction took the form of lecture, of discussion using broad questions, and of discussion using narrow questions as the three primary teaching…

This study investigated the effects of using three strategies for reading on the comprehension of fiction and nonfiction selections by fifth graders. The subjects (N=270) were grouped into three different reading ability levels and randomly assigned to the three strategies for reading: (1) subjects read the entire selection and then answered 10…

The goals and content of a practicum course in reading instruction are discussed. The opportunity to tutor a slightly disabled reader twice a week is provided. Subsequent class sessions are spent on the problems arising from the semiweekly tutoring sessions. Consultations with supervisors occur each day. Perceptive teaching, which leads the tutors…

A study sought to cause a change in the question-phrasing practices of 40 students enrolled in elementary science methods classes. A method of instruction involving the analysis of videotaped classroom lessons illustrative of four categories (cognitive-memory, convergent, divergent, and evaluative) of poorly phrased and effectively phrased…

The effects of cueing procedures in modeling and in feedback treatments on the acquisition of teacher questioning behavior were investigated in order to determine if, as hypothesized, providing cues from a supervisor on the desired behavior during modeling and feedback treatments would increase the frequency of a teacher's use of higher-order…

Intended for employers concerned about problem solving and communication within their organization, this document outlines a strategy for developing an instrument that would provide objective data rather than impressionistic data. A questionnaire was designed to explore the relationship between the central constructs of problem solving and…

This student guide is part of a learning module on the language concept of feedback related to effective teaching, which was developed as part of the Utah State University Protocol Materials Project. The complete module consists of the student guide, a protocol film, and testing materials. The student guide contains: (a) an introduction to…