Describes an advanced expository writing class set up as a quarter-long "survival game," the object of which is to write 7,000 words of satisfactory prose and receive an A for the course. (JM)

This brief self-administered quiz provides teachers a quick survey to evaluate their teaching styles. Each answer includes an evaluation. Recommendations for teachers who wish to improve their teaching styles are made. (JL)

This reprinted 1979 article with a 1988 update discusses ways to help gifted children learn to competently manage and direct a substantial part of their own learning. It discusses goals for self-directed learning, developing the necessary skills, the characteristics of five different instructional styles, and resulting changes in student behavior.…

A study focusing on verbal and nonverbal communication and interaction factors involved in teaching children with severe learning difficulties suggested that differences in teaching style or strategy are closely related to the way in which language's functional qualities are expressed. (CL)

A teacher who has effective discipline is one whose students are on task, act responsibly, and show good human relations. Listed are brief descriptions of some of the behaviors used by effective teachers to establish an optimal learning environment. (MT)

The primary theme of this paper is that teaching at the college level has changed in the postmodern era in ways that make it necessary to consider a richer classification than the popular dichotomy of "sage on the stage" or "guide on the side." The career of G. Stanley Hall is discussed as an example of a teacher who would be…

A model for effective teaching is proposed that is useful in determining classroom teaching methods. (PG)

A sixth grade teacher describes the impetus one class activity provides for other class projects. (GB)

Describes the author's success in using a soft sell" approach to stimulate reluctant high school students' interest in reading. (JB)

Presents study which applied the Language Teaching Record Scheme (LTRS) during classroom observation in order to demonstrate possibility of determining trends among teachers in use of teaching styles based on apparently meaningful configurations of pedagogical functions. Results show meaningful configurational differences do exist which can be…