Writing assignments designed to be interesting to students related to business letter writing, creative writing, and playwriting. (DB)

Compares scores of prospective teachers on a creativity test in 1958 with scores of same people on an inventory of creative teacher behavior in 1966. (RT)

Enumerates dodges so effective that an unprepared teacher can carry away kudos, not boos, from his or her students. (JL)

Describes how a teacher sparked her students' interest in Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" by having them conduct a classroom trial of the play's lead character. (JL)

An expressive encounter is the opposite of a behavioral objective. The instructional goals of the expressive encounter are emergent and generally aimed at skills and attitudes related to creativity and problem solving. A developmental lesson sequence is an integrated, sequential group of lessons that move toward a general goal. (Author/IRT)

The article discusses the rationale for adopting a seemingly unrelated vehicle, such as cooking, for teaching gifted and other children such diverse subjects as geography, history, and language, and relates this to the concept of synectics (which holds that all subjects are interrelated). (Author/DLS)

Describes how curriculum integration can help art enhance learning during times when the arts may be considered dispensable and removed from education, presenting examples of how classroom teachers have examined art as a link to expanded understanding of history, science, math, reading, current events, geography, cultural studies, emotions,…

Considers how the possibility that the use of the specific "technology" of writing might itself alter thought, language, relations, identities, or pedagogical practice. Hopes to create learning environments which acknowledge and support the complex processes involved in learning to write, addressing literacy as an emergent phenomenon of language…

Discusses how the eloquent "I" cultivates a deepened self-dialogue and offers students an epistemological and rhetorical discipline. Reconfigures Mikhail Bakhtin's ethics of "otherness" and his dialogic-prompted way of knowing. Discusses looking for the eloquent "I" in the writing classroom. (SG)

Argues for the realignment of Shakespeare with the popular forms which influence the social world of young children. Explores what teachers and performers need to learn and unlearn when telling Shakespeare's stories in the company of children. Considers the grounds of creativity for teachers when abandoning prescription in teaching Shakespeare.…

A teacher encourages other teachers to look beyond rigid, locked-in, over-organized instructional approaches by pointing out the advantages of creativity, risk-taking, and flexibility in classroom teaching. (CB)

Two experiments concerning the effects of humor on learning in higher education are presented. The first experiment involved 161 Israeli college students; the second involved 132 Israeli college students. Groups taught with the aid of humor performed significantly better on examinations than did those taught without humor. (TJH)