Intended to celebrate the first 10 years of Teachers and Writers Collaborative (the original organization which sent poets, novelists, and other artists into the schools on a regular basis), this book contains 29 articles, diaries, letters, manifestos, graphics, and memoirs. The book contains the following articles: (1) "Roots and…

IN SUSSEX, WISCONSIN, AN EXPERIMENT INVOLVING THREE GROUPS, ONE EXPERIMENTAL AND TWO CONTROL, WAS UNDERTAKEN TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE COORDINATE STUDY OF GERMAN AND WORLD HISTORY CAN BE EFFECTIVE IN THE MORE RAPID MASTERY OF GERMAN. THE EXPERIMENTAL GROUP DEVOTED ONE HOUR TO THE EXPERIMENTAL WORLD HISTORY COURSE TAUGHT IN GERMAN AND…

AN EXAMINATION OF 29 STUDIES REVEALS A GREAT VARIATION IN THE PROCEDURES AND FINDINGS OF THESE INVESTIGATIONS INTO EXPERIMENTAL EFFORTS IN JUNIOR COLLEGE CURRICULA AND INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURE. HOWEVER, THE STUDIES USUALLY DID ONE OF FOUR THINGS--(1) CONSIDERED PROGRAMS AT A NUMBER OF INSTITUTIONS, (2) SUMMARIZED THE RATIONALE AND PROCEDURE OF AN…

AN EXPERIMENTAL TEACHING PROGRAM WAS TESTED AND EVALUATED IN 20 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLASSES. TEACHERS WITH LITTLE OR NO PREVIOUS TRAINING IN SPANISH OR FRENCH ENDEAVORED TO TEACH ONE OF THESE LANGUAGES TO THEIR CLASSES BY USING RECORDS AND A MANUAL WRITTEN TO BE USED WITH THE RECORDS. TEACHERS AND STUDENTS WERE TO RECEIVE NO HELP OR INSTRUCTIONS…

A study designed to answer the need for more attractive and effective economics education involved the teaching of one junior college economics class by the conventional (lecture) method and an experimental class by computer simulation techniques. Econometric models approximating the "real world" were computer programed to enable the experimental…

Listening, the most efficient means of learning in the early grades, is replaced by reading as an efficient method for learning after the seventh grade. For an investigation of the effectiveness with which college students may be taught listening, lesson plans were developed from a programed instruction book --Principles of Selective Listening--…

Problems which will fact reading teachers in the future are discussed, and innovative possibilities are described. The following conclusions are reached. Varying environments create greater differences in children than existed previously, making individualized instruction necessary. Technological progress has opened new fields to education which…

This report comprises a collection of summaries of exploratory efforts by college professors at the Committee on Institutional Cooperation member institutions to develop new and better ways of teaching. Usually these are local experiments aimed at improving the conditions for learning in a specific subject-matter area, but many of the procedures…

An important goal of teacher education is that teachers should attain a good understanding of the theories and methods that have evolved in the study of human development. The Berkeley Developmental Teacher Education Program is described both as a vehicle of teacher education and as a vehicle of research. (MT)

Compares the audiolingual method and the cognitive-code learning theory in two elementary college French courses. (DS)

Author, who directs The Literary Imagination", a freshman English course at Carnegie-Mellon, describes two experimental, student-directed English courses he helped establish for freshmen, and the reasons for the apparent failure of these courses. (DR)