Compares student performance in self-scheduled instruction (SSI) and lecture-discussion sections of a college level introductory sociology course, all of which used the same textbook material. Findings indicate that SSI students receive higher mean course grades and demonstrate greater improvement when compared with lecture-discussion students.…

John S. O'Connor offers exciting new approaches to teaching poetry in middle school and high school classrooms with more than 25 high-interest activities designed to sharpen students' writing and self-understanding and heighten their awareness of the world around them. In the process, he demystifies poetry for teachers and students by using…

This study described and compared 12 classroom teaching innovations that were introduced at the University of Seville, Spain, during academic year 1999-2000. Students completed the Student Demographic Questionnaire (SDQ), and their perceptions of the classroom learning environment were assessed with the Evaluation of University Teaching Activities…

Author suggested that creativity of expression must be encouraged for students while teachers continue to strive for excellence in all areas of instruction in order to produce comprehensive musicians''. (Author/RK)

Describes a program for teaching biology in a secondary school using team teaching, a contract system, and flexible modular scheduling. (PS)

Three week study of second graders indicated that nonsense words were more effective than meaningful words in teaching alphabetizing. (SP)

Article is an attempt to state more explicitly and comprehensively the implications of writing behavioral objectives for choosing teaching strategies and for individualizing instruction. (Authors)

The authors describe a program in which counselors and counselor educators exchange positions and responsibilities in an effort to increase their effectiveness and the amount of interaction between the two. (BY)

Provides a general overview of factors affecting foreign language learning, and discusses how they are related to one another. (EKN)

Reviews research concerning how teachers determine the content their students learn and discusses both the conscious decision making involved in selecting curriculum and the unwitting reductions and distortions introduced into intended curriculum in the process of attempting to teach. (Author/MP)