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Bowden, Shelly Hudson – Childhood Education, 2006
Field trips provide active learning as children have firsthand experience with information they had previously encountered only in textbooks. In this article, the author describes how she used an interesting textbook to plan a field trip for her elementary social studies methods class to Oakwood Cemetery in Montgomery (Alabama). The textbook,…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Active Learning, Field Trips, Elementary School Students
Willoughby, Brian – Teaching Tolerance, 2004
Betsy Rogers is the National Teacher of the Year. She teaches elementary school in Leeds, Alabama, near Birmingham, where she developed a looping class, staying with the same students for two years, from first through second grades. A teacher for 22 years, Rogers earned her bachelor's degree in elementary education in 1974 at Samford University.…
Descriptors: Looping (Teachers), Equal Education, Elementary Education, Interviews