Describes a CD ROM created by three co-authors which presents a multimedia exposition and comparison of three parallel productions of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by a single director staged sequentially at the Tokyo Globe in 1994. Provides specific suggestions as to how secondary English teachers could use this material.…

Considers how the process of developing standards is similar to previous development efforts such as defining "objectives" and "competencies" just a few decades ago. Analyzes how such standard development processes when combined with high stakes tests place teachers in the position of implementing curricula designed by others.…

Investigates techniques of highly effective teachers of Year 12 English in New South Wales, Australia. Concludes that successful teachers saw themselves as operating in positive school environments and overwhelmingly saw themselves as functioning as part of a team. Notes they used a range of teaching strategies, but emphasized having students…

Notes that teaching literature in a Technical and Further Education setting presents its own special set of problems and paradoxes not usually encountered by teachers in more conventional classrooms. Discusses students and their literature experiences; impact of the canon on teaching; and influence of modern literary theory on the reader-text…

Reports on the methodology and results of a study to identify characteristic features of poetry discussion at junior secondary level. (RL)

Lists and annotates recent textbooks in the areas of teaching theory and practice, fiction, poetry, drama, and computers and media. Also lists source and course books and reference books. (FL)

Describes the experience and implications of the Kewdale Project for English teacher education, particularly inservice, and for learning theory in practice. (HOD)

Reports on a study that queried intellectually able, but physically handicapped students and their parents about their needs, wants, and expectations from and of the English program. (Includes the questionnaire used.) (HOD)

Four distinguished English educators discuss some of the issues that English teachers will confront in the 1980s, including creating teaching/learning models, developing inservice teacher education, putting research into practice, and promoting student appreciation for and interest in literature. (RL)

Discusses accounts of classroom practices which draw on socially critical literacy approaches. Outlines how the author was able to work in partnership with an academic mentor in the implementation of a unit of work on Advertising. Notes that what made this unit distinctively English was that a "culture of critique" was established which…

Explores how to use computers more effectively to enhance the learning process. Describes results of a survey given to Australian secondary students about classroom computer use. Suggests that more use be made of e-mail as a communication and learning tool. Proposes that teachers become more proactive in explaining to students and developing with…

Discusses Garth Boomer's 1989 keynote address. Suggests it prefigured debates central to English teachers' professional development, to the pages of his journal, in Australia's classrooms for the next 10 years on the following issues: (1) progressivism/critical literacy divide; (2) variations on the genre debate; (3) reader-response theory vs.…

Offers reflections from two English teachers (one a long-time teacher and the other in her fourth year of teaching) on their careers, their relationship with each other (their mentor-mentee relationship), and their role in the English classroom. Explores many significant issues in English teaching, including the induction of new teachers into the…

Argues that when involving students in activities that require them to explore texts creatively, teachers should also make them inquire into their own reading processes--especially since the reading of literature helps the students to become aware of their own intellectual process if attention is focused on them reflexively. (HOD)

Reports on teacher responses to a questionnaire that sought information related to teaching features such as syllabus, book selection, teaching/learning goals, preferred class activities, questions asked during discussion, methods of assessment and arrangements for remedial readers. (HOD)