This concluding volume of a five-volume project consists of a case study which is designed to elicit from the teacher a performance based on the experience gained (from the previous volumes) in writing prescriptions. The teacher is furnished with data on a student designated John which include a placement profile, placement test, unit record test,…

This research project studied the effects of an experimental teacher training program designed to help teachers nurture creativity in their pupils during the initial year of a city school desegregation plan. A pretest-posttest control group design was employed. One-half of the teachers participated in an experimental in-service program throughout…

This summary is a condensation of a 119-page major research study. The project studied the effects of an experimental teacher training program designed to help teachers nurture creativity in their pupils during the initial year of a city school desegregation plan. A pretest-posttest control group design was employed. One-half of the teachers…

Explains how Cherry Creek (Colorado) schools effectively used Chapter 2 funds provided thorugh the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act. Because these monies must be spent to supplement, not supplant, a school system's activities, the district devised two kinds of grants (minigrants and "skunk-works" grants) that fulfill Chapter 2…

Teacher poses as visiting celebrity and is interviewed by her 6th Grade Language Arts Class as the beginning of a feature news story writing assignment. (GB)

Describes how to grow a pineapple in a classroom and at the same time use the process for the teaching of history, social studies, and a little chemistry. (RB)

Paper presented at the third meeting of the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, April 15-17, 1971, in Detroit, Michigan. (DS)

The use of tapes and tape recorders in teaching is described. (DB)

Explains how student-constructed "aliens" were used to generate writing and to encourage the development of writing skills. (JL)

Presents case in favor of using line drawings as one of the most effective and least expensive ways of recapturing imagination in the language classroom. (Author/BK)