Two vital requirements for a successful environmental education program, that it be interdisciplinary and that it teach children how to deal intelligently with controversy, were discussed. (Author/RK)

Map reading offers insights into a kind of literacy and communication area which involves the printed word with pictorial and symbolic representations. A method for developing basic skills in map reading within the confines of the classroom was described. (Author/RK)

A teacher describes his experiences in attempting to instruct middle school students to understand logic. (RK)

Describes a tutorial program in which an older student, 9-13 years of age, teams with a younger student, 5-8 years of age, in order to meet the needs of one or both members of the team. (GB)

What can the teacher do to assist the quality student in the art class? Suggests proposals that are concerned with the teachers' search, identification and handling of potentially future artists. (Author/RK)

Touchdowns, home runs, goals and bull's-eyes! These are some of the rewards in store for the students who play typing drill games at Del Mar Heights Elementary School in Del Mar, California. (Author)

Curiosity can be developed and nurtured through application of such educational principles as the rewarding of questioning, the use of open questions, delaying answers, accepting incompleteness in existing knowledge, etc. Teaching techniques for stimulating curiosity include brain questioning, role playing, hypothesizing, and pursuing curiosity.…

The use of sensory-motor approach of learning develops a long-term effect on young minds for future learning. The valuable ways of teaching students with projects that are multidisciplinary, thought provoking and emotionally involving are described.

This dissertation investigates how teaching in a hands-on science center contributes to re/shaping one's teaching identity. Situated at the New York Hall of Science (NYHS) in Queens, New York, my research approach is to conduct a critical ethnography where the focus is on improving the teaching and learning of science for all involved. In…

As viewed from two sides such as teacher and student, in this article, we explore the human-based teaching reform for the college professional course of materials Science and Engineering, point out the qualities and conditions that professional teacher should possess in the process of human-based teaching reform of professional course and the…

An understanding of student learning and of the reasons for differential student performance is crucial to improving teaching and learning practices in tertiary education. This article aims to contribute to that understanding by reporting on an empirical study which examined two sets of student texts on the topic "What is law?", written…

Author described his own strategy for helping people learn to compose music, which he called the improvisational approach. (Author/RK)

Article focused on the teaching behaviors which facilitate successful student inquiry. (Author/RK)

Discussed a 1974 research study in which student achievement in two different school environments was measured to see how it affected the development of creativity. (RK)

Author reported on the integration of disabled children into a primary school. (Editor/RK)