Advocates venturing deeper into rhetorical situation since covering it in a superficial way may pose more problems than ignoring it altogether. Offers examples of the kinds of problems students encounter with audience and purpose. Suggests grappling with these complexities rather than discounting them. (PA)

Explores how, although individual innovations like collaborative learning, service learning, or the use of technology in teaching are finding their way onto some campuses, a holistic approach that looks at teaching and learning strategies from an integrated perspective may offer the greatest impact. (EV)

Presents a remodeled reading strategy for high school students that is based on K-W-L and some of its variations. Develops a strategy handout that both teachers and students could use and that would facilitate teaching the curriculum rather than take time away from it. Notes that the "B-D-A" labels the essential before, during, and after…

Provides some tips for administrators desiring to acquire videodisk systems for their school districts. Districts need board support, a solid plan, a designated laser disk expert, and a workable evaluation process to measure progress. (MLH)

Discusses reluctance to alter the basal lesson format and why teachers should do so. Presents four approaches to altering basal lessons and their benefits. (SR)

An innovative focus on language in teacher education is essential for the success of Language Awareness. The goals of promoting educational linguistics as a new discipline and of facilitating efficient language education are discussed, as is the crucial theme of "contingency grammar," defined as ways of displaying attentiveness to other…

Describes how the learning environment can be expanded beyond the traditional classroom to create "classrooms without walls," thus providing children with many opportunities for learning. The following formats for creating new learning spaces are described: fantasy approach; curriculum-preview approach; and discovery approach. (GR)

Describes the instructional use of electronic mail, and its implications for technical literacy. Discusses the fall from the illusion of narrative consciousness into the reality of "hypertext consciousness" and the impersonality factor. (SR)

The incorporation of songs into the chemistry lecture is described. Contemporary music and lyrics are used for teaching chemistry.

The purpose of this holistic case study with a mixed methods approach was two-fold: first, to investigate the extent to which elementary teachers in the BTSD sustained the use of formative assessment reform to regulate instruction, and second, to explore the factors that promoted fidelity to formative assessment reform. Although this study…

As educators, we have two missions. First, we must serve our students--they are both our customer and our product. Second, we aim to provide the market in general with graduates with relevant skills and knowledge for jobs that have not even been created yet. Given that most students graduating and moving into the workplace are not necessarily…

A principal describes how she introduced the concept of action research in her school by encouraging teachers to analyze how their teaching practices impacted students' success and to look for ways to improve. During the course of a year, teams of teachers introduced and monitored innovative projects designed to meet students' specific needs in…

The capacity of any professional development effort to achieve durable change in teacher practice is affected by a host of design factors and their precise alignment with multiple delivery strategies. However, how successful professional development (PD) programs achieve an effective mix of these factors and strategies is not well understood. The…

The aims of this article are to review the existing literature on the introduction and use of interactive whiteboards (IWBs) in schools and to summarise the key issues arising from this analysis in order to provide a context for the articles which follow in this special issue of "Learning, Media and Technology." The article reviews the evidence…

Based on the various metaphors we use to describe the work of teaching, high school teacher Jeremiah Hill articulates a new model--the teacher as creative professional. Hill urges educators to transform the "culture of teaching" by moving away from traditional expectations for classes and embracing connections that we discover among disciplines.