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Students' Reactions to a "No Failure" Grading System and How They Informed Teacher Practice
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Corbett, Dick; Wilson, Bruce – Theory Into Practice, 2009
This article briefly describes the central tenets of a program several low-income middle schools implemented to remove failure as a choice students could make in completing their assignments. Instead of doling out Fs for poor and nonexistent work, teachers devised a variety of options students had to follow to demonstrate eventual mastery of…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Grading, Student Reaction, Student Attitudes
Beyond Themselves: Students Work for Human Rights.
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Mayher, William S. – Social Education, 1985
How students and teachers in a private secondary school started a chapter of Amnesty International, the international human rights organization that received the 1977 Nobel Prize for Peace, is described. The many positive results of the experience are discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, High Schools, International Cooperation, International Organizations
Developing Classroom Interactions Which Signal Effective Teaching. A Module for Undergraduate Instruction in Teacher Education in the RAFT Program at Mississippi State University.
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Handley, Herbert M., Ed. – 1986
In this module, developed by the Research Applications for Teaching (RAFT) project, preservice teachers study the major types of classroom interactions which occur between teachers and students and review the research findings showing how these interactions are related to effective teaching. Much effort is spent on describing procedures for…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Group Dynamics, Higher Education, Interaction Process Analysis