Examines the personality, educational views, and teaching style of author C. S. Lewis, who lectured at Oxford University. (SJL)

Successful students use a learning style that involves thinking deeply about what they are studying. Several teaching techniques that can encourage this are discussed. (Author/MLF)

Describes what one high school writing teacher would do to make a writing workshop work effectively. (RL)

The author briefly analyzes three classes of teacher behavior--skills, strategies, and style--for their effects on teaching as it is learned, practiced, and studied. (CL)

Attention to trainees' learning styles can enhance training effectiveness. Trainers should strive to improve the fit between their training style and trainees' cognitive styles and develop different kinds of learning environments: affectively complex, perceptually complex, symbolically complex, or behaviorally complex. (SK)

Debunks 10 myths about instructor training: platform skills are supremely important; enthusiasm is essential; technical people are terrible instructors; practice makes perfect; videotaping improves skills; watching good instructor is good way to learn; student evaluations will improve instructors; good instructors can overcome bad design; good…

Survey responses from teachers of hearing-impaired children indicated that, although 39 percent of all respondents and 59.1 percent of signing respondents reported that they used an artificial sign system in the classroom, only 8.1 percent of all respondents and 12.3 percent of signing respondents may actually be using one. (Author/CB)

Discusses how the author was influenced by poet William Stafford. Discusses what she learned about the value of writing with her students, of responding to writing, of being open to all the possibilities a writing classroom might present. (RS)

Semistructured interviews were held with foreign-born university students: 12 from Africa, 10 from Asia, and 8 from South America and the Caribbean. Respect for authority was highly valued in their cultures, a quality U.S. children were thought to lack. They thought U.S. teachers gave impractical and abstract answers. Authoritarian parenting was…

Application of total quality management (TQM) in the classroom provides an opportunity to eliminate the minimally successful authoritarian management style. Classroom TQM differs because the customer-client relationship is not clearly defined, motivational factors have differing expectations, and there is less pressure in terms of the consequences…

Research on teacher effectiveness falls into two groups: research on teacher styles and research on teacher competencies. Both neglect the humanistic aspects of teaching. Offers a research overview to assess how well a school system is fulfilling its central mission of successful teaching and learning. (nine references) (MLF)

This article suggests that one way to involve the viewer of a museum exhibition in the balance between accessibility and scholarship is to approach the exhibition not so much as a lecture but as a conversation. References research done on the differences between male and female styles of communication. (LZ)

The Myers Briggs Type Indicator was completed by 82 preservice agricultural education teachers. All 16 types were reflected; the most common were Extrovert Sensing Thinking Judging (23%), Introvert Sensing Thinking Judging (18%), and Extrovert Sensing Feeling Judging (13%). (SK)

Comparison of a nursing course delivered by videoconferencing (n=21), administration course via audiographics (n=23), and education course via audioconferencing (n=31) showed that, regardless of the technology, learners were most influenced by instructor's teaching style. The importance of relational and interactive factors in distance teaching…