What should constitute knowledge bases that we expect our future teachers to gain related to pedagogically sound technology integration? Employing the Shulman's teacher knowledge base as a theoretical lens, this study examined the complexity of pre-service teachers' "technological pedagogical content knowledge" (TPCK) in the context of…

The development of the dynamic skills approach at the University of Chicago as contrasted with the component skills approach to Stanford has shifted microteaching out of the "practical problems" arena and into a more central position between theory and practice. The Stanford model included three stages: general orientation, viewing of skill films,…

THIS DOCUMENT DISCUSSES BULLETIN BOARDS AS INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES TO STIMULATE THE CURIOSITY AND INTEREST OF CHILDREN. IT PRESENTS THE OBJECTIVES, ARRANGEMENT, PLANNING, AND LETTERING THAT COULD BE USED WITH BULLETIN BOARDS. A SHORT LESSON PLAN IS INCLUDED. (JH)

Ten lesson plans are described to encourage creative work and thought in talented art students. Lessons include emphases on brainstorming, fluency, value clarification, logic elaboration, and role playing. (CL)

This article suggests self-evaluative techniques for teachers. (PD)

Criticizes the typical methods course, which has students devise lesson plans without giving them the opportunity to test the plans on those for whom it is intended. (JA)

This column provides an updated list of thirty online lesson plan sites. Some are general, some specific, and some are geared toward one age level or another. The sites described cover topics ranging from American History to Physics to Astronomy.

The art room is the canvas, and all furnishings and objects are the art supplies. All art room surfaces and spaces can be used to communicate an art lesson. Artists in all media plan visually, and art lessons should be planned and preserved as are other works of art. As a young art teacher, the author felt it was important for his students to…

This paper outlines the knowledge and attitudes that 57 language teachers in Japan have regarding copyright laws in relation to using external materials in the classroom. A 13-item online survey was distributed, and semi-structured interviews were conducted, to ascertain what teachers know about Japanese copyright laws, and the teachers' resultant…

One semester while attempting to help pre-service teachers learn how to make mathematics relevant to the lives of young children, it occurred to the author that many preservice teachers in teacher education programs were uncomfortable outside of their own personal cultural experiences. Having recently read some work of Claudia Zavslavsky (1996),…

Slavery in the pre-Civil War United States is a hard topic to teach, not only because it raises issues of racism and injustice, but also because students assume so much. Often, they think all northerners were abolitionists or "good guys" and southerners were "bad guys" who enslaved African Americans because they viewed them as inferior. England,…