This article illustrates the author's discovery that the key to any successful dance unit is finding ways for students to make connections and want to dance. While reflecting on the purpose of dance in the curriculum, the author identified important skills and concepts he wanted his students to master, such as rhythm, balance, and…

Excerpted from Sarama and Clements's chapter in NAEYC's book K Today: Teaching and Learning in the Kindergarten Year, the authors explain that in response to the need for high-quality early childhood mathematics instruction, the field has developed research-based content standards identifying key concepts and skills children need to gain…

Resource teachers fulfill special responsibilities and roles in a school. As teachers, they must commit themselves to a wide group of students; as resource specialists, they must make a commitment to the staff and administration. Both commitments call for an effective style of leadership, knowledge, and service that, in order to make a difference,…

Two series of classroom observations showed that a high-creative group of student teachers gave more original but not more fluent nor flexible teaching performances than a group of low-creative student teachers. (Author/KM)

From a special section, "Talent Awareness Training.

PROGRAMS DEALING WITH GIFTED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN ARE DESCRIBED AND GIVE THE DEFINITION, IMAGINATION, ENRICHMENT, RESPONSIBILITY, AND TREATMENT OF THE ABLEST STUDENT. THE ESTABLISHED PROGRAMS OF GRADE SKIPPING, GRADELESS SCHOOLS, GROUPING BY ABILITY, AND ENRICHMENT ARE DESCRIBED ALONG WITH EXAMPLES OF NEW METHODS OF TEACHING MATHEMATICS AND…

The Developmental Career Guidance Project in the Detroit, Michigan schools sponsored a workshop which was designed to help youngsters improve their self-concepts by sensitizing teachers to the implications of various elements of self-theory. The teachers consequently had to go back to their own classrooms and creatively develop materials and…

The disparity between advanced educational preparation and training and subsequent employment opportunities raises major questions regarding traditional academic expectations and lifestyles. This article offers some suggestions for a new relationship between educational institutions and scientists, writers, artists, and other highly-specialized…

Written for the harried English teacher whose aim is creative and stimulating teaching, this book's chapters attempt to provide inspiration for instruction in six specific areas. Robert E. Probst urges the student's enjoyment of literature as a special, thought-provoking experience and suggests that a model of cooperation prevail over a…

Behavioral objectives in the teaching of English are criticized. The primary objection is the a priori expectations and reasoning which is a necessary part of these objectives. Behavioral objectives are said to restrict the flexibility and mobility of the English teacher in his classroom interaction. The entire concept of writing behavioral…

This nationwide study was concerned with the relation of personality traits, classroom behavior, and student-teacher relationships to creativity in college teaching. Creative teachers were identified by Ph.D. students who had studied under the teachers and who nominated them as having had the most facilitating effect on their creative development,…

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Describes a research methods course which fosters cooperation between students and gives them a positive experience with course content. Students are encouraged to view the sociologist more like a detective than a laboratory scientist. This reduces anxiety for students who fear the quantitative and empirical perspectives of the sciences.…

Teachers who can trigger the "goose bump" response have probably mastered the fine art of teaching. Such teachers are enthusiastic, excited about their subject matter, and genuinely care about their students. When "artistic" teachers manifest glaring teaching deficiencies, the sensitive principal overlooks these flaws or handles them without…