This qualitative research study investigated the development of heuristic knowledge and its role in the academic and social journeys of five Vietnamese American students enrolled at a community college located in the American Midwest. The participants were interviewed in depth to understand their "lived experiences" while attending the…

Recent studies using graduate students in one case and first graders in the other reached the same conclusion. If instruction capitalizes on what students already know, they learn more readily and transfer the knowledge well. Teachers can use children's knowledge as a bridge to new knowledge. (MT)

The Experiential Taxonomy is one that teachers who have taken an introductory inservice mini-course can use in the classroom as an effective tool for planning and evaluation of student experiences. It can be used equally effectively in the classroom for planning, amending, implementing, and evaluating each student activity or learning sequence.…

In situations where it is not possible for trainees to practice teaching in local schools, teaching short lessons to their peers--called microteaching--can provide beneficial experience and feedback to teachers-in-training. The article includes guidelines for presenters, observers, and teacher trainers as well as a sample practicum class schedule…

Article suggested a method for exposing children to quality music so they can develop discriminatory listening skills, and also a real love for music. (Author/RK)

Describes how students' economic experiences as workers and consumers can be used as a foundation to build a secondary economic education program. Emphasis is placed on the study and active observation of the local economy. (RM)

Arguing that the visual arts serve as the focus for potential aesthetic experience in the discipline of art education, this paper describes the influence of the sensory elements of aesthetic experience in nature and other art forms on the work of three artists--Kandinsky, Van Gogh, and Picasso--and suggests that teachers can enrich students'…

Demonstrates the variety of trucks and other commercial vehicles used to transport goods and services in the Fort Lauderdale, Florida community, attempts to broaden the students' awareness of career opportunities within the trucking industry, and to provide firsthand experiences in which students could use basic computation, communication and…

Shows how the eagerness to learn and the wealth of experience of senior adults makes a composition course in autobiography particularly effective for such students. (JL)

Outlines an approach used in teaching poetry as a craft, in which poems about small town life were read and discussed to help students discover and write down their responses to their own town. (GT)

Seven easy projects to get you through the last of the winter blahs! (Editor)

Article described the objectives of the Artists-in-the-Schools program, developed by the Hawaii Curriculum Center in 1966. (Author/RK)

Article described a program in which children could involve themselves in activities of their choosing. (Author/RK)

Article provided some tips on how teachers and students can incorporate the Bicentennial in their learning experiences. (Editor/RK)

Examines the personal writing method proposed by Ken Macrorie and explains how it can help students conceptualize and form generalizations that extend their personal reminiscences into more objective expository writing. (HTH)