Describes how elementary students can use computers to create newspapers from another time period, sparking their interest in history and motivating them to do a little research. (SM)

Presents the Holistic Educational Literacy Process strategy for adult literacy education consisting of the following 10 steps: presenting an advance organizer; reading silently; reading aloud; listening to the passage recorded; listening and taking notes; highlighting important points; networking structures; summarizing the passage; revising the…

Drawing on specific examples in elementary school classrooms and flying instruction analogies, this article shows how teachers can creatively combine tenets of both holistic and direct approaches to reading instruction. Students are more likely to use reading and writing effectively when teachers themselves are empowered to select intelligently…

Discusses the development of a holistic language policy, which recognized and included minority languages within the curriculum, at the Richmond Road school in New Zealand. The policy illustrates how the formulation and implementation of school-based curriculum development can be effectively achieved by the school. (25 references) (JL)

Contains excerpts from holistic, second grade drama lessons based on a motif common to young children--"A Journey from Home to Confront a Monster." Asserts that this motif can be examined from a fantasy viewpoint with as much power and relevance as from a reality base. Encourages working with others to overcome "monsters" of…

This article puts forth some of the concepts and complexities involved in teaching secondary students ethical and aesthetic reasoning skills as well as the ideas of and debates throughout history. It is argued that curricula should connect holistically to the intellectual and emotional hierarchies of the gifted personality. (PB)

Offers a brief overview of shifting models in reading instruction. Presents the holistic model which guides instruction at the reading center of a midwestern state university. Illustrates the model with entries from a tutor's diary. (SR)

Paper examines how physical education can contribute to and work proactively toward each of the six national education goals in America 2000: readiness to learn, national graduation rates, competency in five core subjects, world class achievement in science and mathematics, literacy, and a positive learning environment. (SM)

Offers a framework (personality type theory) with which to understand differing perspectives on assessment. Aims to encourage readers to consider how their own preferences might influence their attitudes toward assessment in general, and toward particular assessment activities in the classroom. (PA)

A naturalist and designer of public gardens relates her experiences of introducing children to plants and gardens using equipment such as binoculars, stethoscopes, notebooks, photographs, and magnifying glasses. Article provides information is given about many plants, their uses, and related child-centered activities (such as a namesake pumpkins…

The academic mission should move from teaching-research-service to a holistic model with a single, integrative focus on knowledge work. The unity of knowledge development, dissemination, and application by a community of scholars promotes coherence at the university, unit, and scholar level. (SK)

Investigated item-by-item, holistic, and "trait" scoring with three mathematics performance-based tasks completed by 53 to 79 junior high and senior high school students per task. Results suggest that holistic scoring and item-by-item scoring methods provide similar information, but that trait score tapped into different aspects of…

North American society insulates itself from suffering by encouraging rational detachment, but empathy is a basic human quality that enables a richer, fuller view of life. Living with empathy means drawing forward the living things we usually reduce to a backdrop, and listening to the experiences of other. The accompanying sadness brings balance…

Points out that learning in Western cultures is predominately concerned with left-brain, or rational, knowledge. Discusses the importance of balancing our learning systems with right-brain, or intuitive, knowledge; how outdoor and experiential learning can help foster this balance; and the role of the instructor as facilitator rather than teacher.…

Outward Bound Czech Republic developed a course for international participants in which everybody is simultaneously an actor and viewer in a 2-week theater play. A five-stage process of developing "dramaturgy" allows instructors to adapt the scenario to participant needs and thus enhance the likelihood of challenge and transfer of…