Proposes changes in correcting the distorted image that many students have of science. Teachers should communicate some of the excitement, beauty, and uncertainty of the subject. Identified three styles of teaching changes: remove harshness and sterility, emphasize verb sense (dynamics) of science, and reduce quantity of material presented to…

The use of modern equipment to teach students is an extermely efficient way of utilizing the teacher's time to its maximum potential. (CK)

Presents a self-scoring ideology attitude survey that can be taken by teachers to help them identify their belief systems and the possible influences of these belief systems on classroom content and teaching style. (WD)

As a teacher, the humanist develops a learning climate that is positive, enriching, and psychologically nourishing. A humanist's teaching style reflects psychological wholeness and is characterized by deep respect for the learner, effective communication, acceptance of learners, concentration on the needs and feelings of learners, and a liberating…

The author describes his uplifting and enlightening experience as an English major in the mid-1940s, specifically as a student of John Crowe Ransom at Kenyon College in Ohio. (KC)

A charismatic teaching style turns the dance studio or classroom into a theatrical setting in which the dance instructor is "star" and the students are "supporting players." (CJ)

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…