Discusses ways in which teachers can establish an atmosphere which will foster the creative use of language among their students. (PM)

College classrooms are rich in experiences from which students can learn about their own interpersonal interactions. (HMD)

This book, which concerns the teaching of English, is composed of two parts. Part One--The Imaginative Faculty contains the following chapters: 1. "The First Year: The Rediscovery of the Familiar"; 2. "The Second and Third Years: The Growth of Consciousness"; 3. "The Final Stage: Imagination and Morality"; and 4. "The Dramatic Experience." Part…

Using the nine traits of creativity suggested by Guilford and illustrated in tests of creative thinking by Torrance, high school teachers of varied subjects developed teaching strategies. Both students and teachers learned more about creativity by confronting the unknow future, predicting from limited data, and writing stories using fantasy.…

Discusses and gives illustrations of how to use comic books to teach history. Explores the historical background of comic books and includes detailed procedures for helping students develop their own history comics. Praises this approach as a way to enliven secondary social studies and motivate students. (GEA)

Offers a rationale and methods for implementing a coaching program in day care centers. Defines coaching as staff training that focuses on teachers changing and extending their ideas and skills of teaching through technical support and encouragement from fellow teachers. (RWB)

Presents a case for a curriculum that implies comparisons and contrasts, multiple meanings, multiple interpretations, and expressive objectives. Discusses the creation of Individual Aesthetic Pages (IAPs), using the arts to evoke creative responses and meanings from students. (FL)

Scavenger hunts, collecting bottle caps, observing shadows, and other outdoor activities can be developed into a mathematics unit that motivates students to acquire basic mathematical skills. A variety of natural ways to collect data are offered to help foster learning. (DF)

Offers suggestions for teaching and resources for bringing the works of Shakespeare successfully to students of today. (CRH)

This book presents activities to keep K-6 students moving in a variety of ways as they learn. The movement experiences are planned around key curriculum concepts in movement and music as well as in academic curriculum areas. The experiences develop students' basic timing, language abilities, vocabulary, concentration, planning skills, and…

The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that the verbal creative thinking abilities of fluency, flexibility, and originality are negatively related to authoritarian pupil control orientations as measured by the Pupil Control Ideology Form (Willower, Eidell & Hoy, 1967). (Author/RK)

Describes how children incorporated the work tasks of a baker into several subject areas which culminated in a bakeshop, recipe booklets, and good cookies. (MM)

Describes the experience and result of an elective non-credit course in art appreciation and criticism that provided an opportunity to try some experimental techniques of teaching. (RB)

Discusses methods to win and hold adult interest. Physical, mental, emotional and psychological problems are considered and solutions suggested. (RB)