This guide opens with a brief statement on rationale and philosophy, with active learning, problem solving, and technology emphasized. Goals and objectives are stated and desirable characteristics of elementary mathematics programs are presented. The following program elements are discussed: problem-solving skills, attitudes, and mathematical…

Noting that the decision to offer special sections or courses for superior communication students is often ignored because such students are not very visible in the traditional classroom, this paper focuses on some of the considerations involved in honors programs and proposes some guidelines for developing them based on extant honors programs and…

The Teenage Health Teaching Modules (THTM) program is a health education curriculum for adolescents. Each THTM module frames an adolescent health task emphasizing development of self-assessment, communication, decision making, health advocacy, and self-management. This module provides complementary details on the substance of the THTM program.…

Good thinking can be placed within a descriptive framework which includes a state of doubt about what to do or believe; goal, possibilities, and evidence seeking; and evidence use. The framework is useful in describing all types of thinking, although the search process may differ in the degree of control the thinker has over his search. Examples…

Stressing the importance of instructional objectives, this discussion explores the relationship of handwriting to child characteristics and societal expectations. The nature of writing is described, and questions are specified for teachers to consider before determining educational objectives pertaining to handwriting. Guidelines for initial…

This article offers some suggestions as to ways in which the outcome of independent study programs can be assessed. (Author)

Article considered the use of natural objects such as rocks, shells, wood, fungus, turtle shells and bones for reference in drawing. (Author/RK)

Investigates the relationship of teaching styles, the faculty's perception of college goals, satisfaction, influence over policy issues, and organizational characteristics, and the teaching effectiveness of community college divisions. (Editor/PG)

A systematic procedure is described whereby private colleges may establish long-range objectives and allocate their limited resources to programs that are most productive in fulfilling these objectives. Results of the actual application of this system to a private college are reported. (Editor)

The main objective of this article has been to describe an approach to music listening that can bring a greater compatibility between the goals and practices of aesthetic education. (Author/RK)

Discussed the process of planning a program of instruction that concerned itself with student attitudes toward and responses to music and the development of their music skills. (Author/RK)

Article examined the merits of accountability and what education can effectively provide the public. (RK)

Durkheim's treatment of the nature of morality and of moral education is examined. Three elements in his moral theory, namely the spirit of discipline, attachment to social groups, and autonomy or self-determination, are examined in turn and discussed. (Editor)

Author draws our attention to the seiousness of the Coleman Report on Youth and hopes the report will stimulate the nation to seek new solutions to the problems of its young people. (Editor/RK)

Author responded to the report's charge that teachers are inadequate for the job of reforming the schools and stated that teachers would and could be the prime inovators in the schools if they were supported by the powers that control their programs and budgets. (Editor/RK)