experimental methods

Looks at what students can do to become better evaluators of themselves as readers and writers, and offers advice on how teachers can help them reach that goal.

The author provides a comprehensive analysis of the past, present, and possible future of the progressive education movement.

Discusses how innovation can be used to promote students' thinking and learning and why innovation is an essential skill for success.

A teacher discusses the children in the classroom.

Presents a collection of activities and games designed to stimulate learning, improve memory, increase attention levels, and enhance motivation.

A dramatization of an actual classroom experiment in establishing a fascist society. In this account, Laurie tries to persuade Mr. Ross to call off the experiment.

Presents a fictionalization of a real experiment at a California high school in which a history teacher started a fascist youth movement in an effort to show his students that the Holocaust could indeed happen again.

Contains creative, ready-to-use ideas designed to help teachers motivate, instigate, and encourage their students.