This document contains a set of reproducible activity sheets for teachers to use in enhancing the self-esteem of their students. Designed to supplement other approaches being used by teachers, the activities in this book can be used to infuse esteem-building activities into the core curriculum. The activities are organized around several…

The notion that student personnel work was more than the administration of student services, that total full-rounded education and development was a legitimate concern of higher education, is not new but is a theme that has surfaced in publications of 30 or 40 years ago. What was purportedly new about the student development movement of the late…

This book presents a responsive approach to assessment which recognizes and describes students' development, learning and achievement in English. It describes a model for English teaching built on the kinds of contexts, activities, and experiences which most effectively promote the learning of language, learning through language, and learning…

To help improve students' ability to interpret and write about literature, teachers should get rid of old habits. The old habits include giving quizzes to make sure students read assignments, and assigning readings just because particular works are part the literary canon. Once a teacher assigns a novel and gives a quiz, everything the teacher and…

This manual encourages teachers, business people, and administrators to create innovative local school/business programs by listing and describing American programs that have been proven successful. A directory describing the role of businesses in education is included. Additional comments and program descriptions are divided into three…

A new social theory of value must be developed because of the possibility of a world-wide emergency in the face of growing famine and pollution and an accompanying decline of moral values. This theory must have the life of all humanity and the life of our own culture as its ultimate values. (Author/RK)

Suggestions for enhancing the validity of the social study and restoring history to a relevant place in social inquiry were discussed. (Author/RK)

The role of education in solving social problems was discussed and programs for helping students gain a greater understanding of the world were proposed. (RK)

Outlines the Perry Scheme of Development, (which describes student developmental processes in terms of forms of thought and styles of establishing values and personal identity) as a useful analytical framework and describes its actual and potential uses in student evaluation, faculty development, instructional development and program design and…

Article described the use of kits, a packaged collection of related materials designed to teach the user a predetermined content specific to the arts in conceptual, historical, critical, or aesthetic dimensions, and caboodles, a variation of a kit, which present important visual arts concepts to students. (Author/RK)

An art teacher described an elective course in graphics which was designed to enlarge a student's knowledge of value, color, shape within a shape, transparency, line and texture. This course utilized the technique of working a multi-colored print from a single block that was first introduced by Picasso. (Author/RK)

Suggests ways that students may be taught how to evaluate scientific information so that they may make rational value judgments. (LS)

Author considered the advantages of teaching students in small primary schools and compared them with some of the advantages of being taught in larger schools. (RK)

In an attempt to give students an opportunity to strengthen skills that will make them effective group members, authors developed a program, "The Doherty School Outing Club", that stresses group dynamics in an outdoor setting. (Author/RK)

The author reminds us that actions in education are based on ideas. The problem is to select those ideas (and ideals) of greatest value. (Editor)