The intent of this brief outline on the significant components of open education is to present to the teacher a means by which open education characteristics can be operationalized in the classroom. (Editor/RK)

Students can develop appropriate understandings, skills, and attitudes pertaining to architecture from diverse countries and areas in the world. Article suggested relevant objectives in developing a course on architecture and recommended principles of learning for greater student awareness. (Author/RK)

Examines some basic principles underlying success or failure in classroom management and suggests activities to promote cooperative awareness among students. (CM)

Sees the school prayer movement as a threat to both academic and religious freedom. Describes how the mere existence of school-sponsored prayer, regardless of the wording in the prayer, corrupts both the school and the act of prayer. (Author/NEC)

Defines the ideal classroom environment and compares it with the effective clinical supervision situation (one-to-one encounter) and determines that the two are more similar than contrasting. Urges educators and their supervisors to create ideal teaching/learning environments based on the premise that people learn what they live and experience.…

Presenting provisions for mainstreaming eight types of exceptionalities, this article includes a chart which provides suggestions regarding physical surroundings, instructional activities, materials, teaching strategies, and meeting emotional/social needs for the following: educable mentally retarded; speech disabilities; behavioral disabilities;…

Proposes a 12-celled typology consisting of four stress types (role-based, task-based, boundary-spanning, and conflict-mediating) and three stress sources (extra-organizational, intra-organizational, and intrapersonal). Describes in detail the nature of each cell. Suggests this typology can help synthesize the findings of studies in organization…

Presents an alternative model to the conventional structure ordinarily employed in colleges and universities for supervision of secondary school student teachers. Illustrates new ways public school teachers, administrators, and support service personnel can work closely with college supervisors in providing a multidisciplinary group of student…

Provides an operational definition of punishment and presents 13 guidelines for the effective use of punishment in public schools. Explores the advantages and disadvantages of using punishment as part of a school's disciplinary procedures. (SB)

Describes preventative remediation program, developed and implemented by author, for mild emotional/behavioral problems in rural elementary schools which allows students to remain in their regular classroom. Emphasizes consultative team approach utilizing itinerant behavioral specialists, school psychologists, and/or special education teachers,…

Discusses a multifaceted social learning method of agression management. Reviews literature concerned with antecedents, related personal characteristics, and consequences of aggression in adolescents. Explains how treatment of aggression in school settings may invalue two levels of intervention: management through general program procedures and…

Examines biological and environmental determinants of creative/divergent thinking in light of two studies--one showing an inverse relationship between serum uric acid and divergent thinking and one showing a positive correlation between family size and creativity in upper socioeconomic status groups. Outlines classroom practices that promote…

A teacher describes his personal experience in working with black students in a community college classroom and how he responded to and dealt with his own uncomfortable feelings about a learning mode which differed from any he had previously encountered. (Editor/RK)

Becoming knowledgeable about the students, avoiding stereotypes, accepting students as individuals, helping students become part of the group while retaining their cultural identity, and being yourself in assuming this role are suggested methods to assist culturally different students in becoming active, contributing class members. Practical…

Classroom teachers of terminally ill children face potentially difficult, challenging, rewarding and professionally expanding experiences which require an understanding of the basic needs of the dying. Strategies for teaching such children include literature, writing, role playing, magic circle discussions, play therapy, art therapy, counseling,…