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Describes a research methods course which fosters cooperation between students and gives them a positive experience with course content. Students are encouraged to view the sociologist more like a detective than a laboratory scientist. This reduces anxiety for students who fear the quantitative and empirical perspectives of the sciences.…

Teachers who can trigger the "goose bump" response have probably mastered the fine art of teaching. Such teachers are enthusiastic, excited about their subject matter, and genuinely care about their students. When "artistic" teachers manifest glaring teaching deficiencies, the sensitive principal overlooks these flaws or handles them without…

Suggestions are made to help music teachers with limited resources, such as a low budget, poor quality instruments, and small amounts of rehearsal time, develop a band that provides quality performance. Suggestions include properly maintaining student-model instruments and designing a lesson format for a private lesson and using it in group…

Museum education is becoming more popular. For example, since 1967, in British Columbia the number of museums conducting educational programs has gone from zero to 85. Discussed are many aspects of museum education, including teaching methods, how teachers can use museums creatively, and how students learn in museums. (RM)

While the research literature on teaching as a form of scholarship has been growing, there has been a concomitant growth in understanding that teaching itself is a kind of performance--an interactive dramaturgical relationship between students and teachers with potential positive outcomes for student learning, motivation, discovery, and community.…

Part of a series offering focused, authoritative treatments of subjects of current interest to educators and other readers, this fastback focuses on the topic of humor, particularly its usefulness in instruction. The fastback asserts that humor can increase attention and retention across curricular areas, create a more positive school climate,…

Describes the projects (an encounter session, drama, and a student-developed film) planned by a class in a course on mythology. (MM)

Through a supporting environment in which art is an integral part of the total curriculum, an art teacher develops child creativity. (Author/RK)

Author suggests that students be historians and be involved in the process of history rather than rely on textbooks filled with shaky generalizations. (Author/RK)

Author introduced the Presidents' Game as a method of presenting history in a manner relevant to student interests. (RK)

A grab bag of ideas for working with learning-disabled children in the areas of reading, writing, spelling, and arithmetic. (RB)

Discusses a few of the approaches in applying general semantics to the teaching of creativity. (Author)

The central concept of a new theory for teaching writing is discussed. The theory states that when students know that the elements in a writing assignment are partly of their own invention, they will be more motivated to produce interesting stories and essays. At the same time, the teacher is able to stress writing skills previously introduced.…