Article described a method by which three teacher interns, preparing to be English teachers, combined their backgrounds and interests in philosophy, history, and communications to formulate a twelfth grade elective course. (Author/RK)

Offers an outline of the social studies methods course taught at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. (SR)

Reprints an article originally published in 1937. Discusses the need for some kind of training in automobile safety. Discusses an eight-week high school course on the automobile that covers engine operation, safety, auxiliary systems, and actual driving practice. (RS)

The mini-course offers unusual opportunities for teachers and schools that wish to experiment with new forms. Certain very significant characteristics have to be present in order for the mini-course to be productive and eight important ingredients are listed here. (Author/RK)

Content and scope of a course taught by the author at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and student response to the course. (SP)

Describes Project Outreach--special education reaching out into the general school population to involve as many students as possible in skills development. At a time when special educators are striving to mainstream the special needs child, Weston Junior High School has mainstreamed the whole special needs program. (Author/RK)

History lends itself to story-telling. English is replete with literature which uses an historical basis. In justifying the premise that English and history can be taught as a single unit, four examples were given where history and literature complement each other. (Author/RK)

Describes a class for ninth graders at a private school that used the study of music to help develop six basic intellectual skills and to provide a foundation for further creative work. Discusses using the inquiry/discovery method, applying the intellect, listening to and learning from pop music, the dangers of this approach, and the final exam…

Suggests that, despite the expanding variety of the university population, despite diversity and challenges to the literary canon, writing assignments continue to be uninspired and outdated. Describes an "Alternative Responses to Literature" course whose aim was to open up the communal readings, the forms of response to them, and the…

Those teachers who feel uncomfortable in crossing disciplines still believe in process learning, problem solving, humanizing education, and relating subject matter to total learning. That is what a Field Trip Course is all about. (Author/RK)

Describes a year-long course for reluctant learner (a Cooperative Work Experience course), in which the class built a greenhouse and ran it as a business. Describes how students planned, gathered facts, conducted an organizational meeting, wrote reports, ran the greenhouse, and planned for the next year. (SR)

Describes problems faced in an interdisciplinary course taught by the authors on major 19th and 20th century figures and ideas in the humanities (literature, music, art, and philosophy). Tells how they refashioned it to focus on depth rather than breadth. Offers some hard-won insights and advice for those embarking on interdisciplinary teaching.…

The oral history section of a Penn State University course, "Culture and Ethnic Groups in the Social Studies," is described. (SJL)

The author describes a course which links sports and economics. The course encompassed 28 lessons, which are listed, and which gave students the opportunity to work with charts, graphs, the Consumer Price Index, lifetime wages, and other economic data. A noticeable change in attitudes toward economics was demonstrated. (KC)

Describes an elective course for at-risk ninth-grade students that focuses on sports literature--articles and columns in the daily newspaper, young adult novels, and a sports anthology. (SR)