Describes in detail a complete Latin lesson for a heterogeneously grouped 5th and 6th grade class in an inner city public school in Philadelphia. (PM)

Using a practical example from teaching Russian, the article surveys the various steps in the planning of a teaching procedure. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

This textbook is a course in mental arithmetic that is essentially based on the object-lesson plan. It is believed that the pupil in the primary school can more readily acquire a familiarity with numbers from the use of objects and pictures than from an uninterrupted drill on the tables. It also includes suggestions for teachers how to use the…

The author discusses why teachers should develop lesson plans. He presents two commonly used lesson plan formats. (CH)

Outlines specific lesson plans for teaching map reading readiness concepts in the primary grades. (CM)

Presents a research-based system for developing lesson plans to be used with any basal series. (DD)

Describes how a teacher adapts a lesson for a classroom of learning disabled students. Includes adaptations and suggestions that can be applied to a variety of different lesson situations. (YDS)

A teacher encourages other teachers to look beyond rigid, locked-in, over-organized instructional approaches by pointing out the advantages of creativity, risk-taking, and flexibility in classroom teaching. (CB)

Advocates the teaching of spelling in secondary schools through record keeping of student spelling errors and minilessons based on these errors. (TB)

Discusses discrepant events designed as a demonstration to present a situation or phenomenon that has an unexpected and sometimes very surprising outcome. Presents ways of developing science lessons linking discrepant events with the learning cycle as an example. (ASK)

Performance on a multiple-choice item in a public examination indicates that most students do not understand how fat is absorbed through villi. A teaching strategy is suggested to overcome this problem by helping students review their own ideas critically. (Author/MM)

Everybody accepts that Americans celebrate the independence of the United States on the Fourth of July, in remembrance of that famous date in 1776. In this article, the author features a simple lesson designed for students to check the accuracy of this most basic of American historical facts. During the lesson, the students examine nine pieces of…

There seems to be a tension between the standards movement and the multicultural education movement in today's academic discourse. The fact, however, is that it is possible for teachers to develop standards-based lessons across various disciplines and effectively weave multicultural education into them. This approach is less time consuming than…

Earlier reports have shown that prospective teachers' conceptions about teaching science to a high degree are resistant and do not change substantially during the teacher-training programme. In our investigation we elucidate the prospective teachers' initial conceptions about pupils' understanding of science and mathematics. We applied "The…