The Materials and Activities for Teachers and Children (MATCH Box) project was developed in 1965 to provide for the relatively intensive treatment of a subject over two weeks through materials geared to the elementary school level. Each MATCH Box contains materials, equipment and activities that work together to foster the teaching/learning of…

Better equipped than most teachers in a humanistic background and in a knowledge of advances in interdisciplinary study, the English teacher is well-qualified to achieve a major educational goal--to help a student acquire a disciplined attitude toward knowledge through the analysis of ideas. One method of reaching this goal is through the…

The purpose of this study is to describe Readers Theatre as it existed from the 1967-68 school year to the 1971-72 school year. Studying the data drawn from the questionnaires sent to educational directors and concert managers led to the following conclusions, among others: educational directors have been influenced by materials originated and…

This book makes a comparative study of the prose fiction of Graham Greene and the films made from that fiction. Special attention is focused upon the "cinematic" style of Greene's prose, the effect of Greene's screenwriting on his novels, and the characteristics of Greene's filmscripts. The book is divided into considerations of Greene…

This paper asserts the central function of creativity as a basis of approach to English teaching as an art. Creative writing is discussed as one attempt to discover, release, and enrich the potentialities of being and to give order and structure to the inner world of the child. In order to develop creativity in children, teachers are encouraged…

This book discusses a program for learning how to write fiction and poetry as well as reports, lectures, and memos. The program can be used in writing classes or by individuals who want to improve their writing ability. The first chapter discusses the value of "freewriting exercises," the production of unedited, non-stop written work. Chapter two…

The Third Annual Report of the Hawaii State Senior Center is presented. It depicts a story of continued expansion of diversified services to the senior citizens of Oahu. Each month, on the average, 209 persons visited the Center for an annual total of 62,034 visits. Regular membership is 1,040. Discussions have been held concerning the need for…

Intended for administrators and teachers of gifted children, the volume presents ideas on creativity developed by the participants in the 1975 Teacher Training Institute at Governor's School in North Carolina. Sections cover the rationale of creativity in the classroom, theoretical background, the creative classroom (including a game for teachers…

This book is concerned with an individualized approach to the teaching of games for the six to thirteen year age group. It is designed for physical education teachers and classroom teachers involved in the teaching of physical education. It points out that modern classroom teaching techniques are closely allied to those recommended for teaching…

This booklet was designed to help primary classroom teachers present a program of movement education. Six aims form the foundation of the program: (1) to help teachers become movement experts within the confines of their classrooms; (2) to suggest ways and means of providing movement experiences in a limited space, thereby relieving children of…

Arting and loving are treated as primary instances of "creative learning" in this paper. Further, it is maintained that this learning is of such a kind that in it everything must be learned at once, even though it is generally alleged that it cannot be taught at all. The discussion includes topics such as loving and actualization of potential, the…

In this essay teaching science to both cerebral hemispheres is advocated. Some of the literature supporting this point of view is discussed and a fantasy imagination exercise is also included. (MR)

Blue Star Camps (Hendersonville, North Carolina) used talents of an internationally known architectural artist to emphasize a world peace dimension in their 1985 eight-week coed summer program. Past creative programs have included mock United Nations sessions, mock presidential conventions/elections, lunar landing salute, bicentennial celebration,…

Offers perspectives and specific ways of developing and nurturing critical and creative problem-solving skills with engineering students. Provides examples of exercises and approaches that aim in stimulating creativity and in providing understanding of course material. (ML)

Fourteen Native Canadian intermediate students identified as creatively gifted were assigned to experimental or control groups. Pre- and posttests of creative potential indicated significant gains in originality scores of the experimental groups, who received training in fluency, flexibility, and originality through formation of objects and…