This article reports results of a qualitative study conducted at a public "escuela secundaria" (U.S. grades 7, 8, and 9) in Guadalajara, Mexico, during the spring of 2010. As the second phase of an ongoing project, the main goal was to learn from direct classroom observation about the most prevalent teaching and institutional practices…

Article describes how teacher role conflict, due to conflicting social attitudes of student and teacher, is one of the basic causes of the current problems in urban classrooms. (Author/MM)

Taken from a larger study about life in high school classrooms from students' perspectives, this paper discusses how study participants pinpointed individual classrooms as the nerve centers in students' high school experiences. Punctuating the swirls of movement within school days, individual class periods contain clues about how students…

Although constructivism is a concept that has been embraced by many teachers over the past 15 years, the meanings that are attached to this term are varied and often inadequately understood. Teachers need to have a sound understanding of what constructivism means to evaluate its promise and to use it knowledgeably and effectively. This paper…

Three philosophical methods, idealism, essentialism, and progressivism, were examined regarding their positions toward the analysis of classroom behavior. (Author/RK)

Gives an overview of creativity by defining it, characterizing the creative person, and identifying ways in which to encourage its development, such as providing creative role models, maintaining a safe and secure environment, avoiding criticism, communicating, and remaining flexible. (DC)

This article documents a collaborative, teacher inquiry process to uncover a diverse sample of 271 students from an urban high school reflect on teachers they admire and classes in which they feel the most comfortable. The findings indicate that the students described teachers in terms of who the teacher is as a person, the role that he or she…

Explores empirical literature related to the antecedents, associated personal characteristics, and consequences of depressive reactions among school-aged individuals. Includes eight specific guidelines for the classroom-based treatment of these depressive reactions. (Author/JN)

The importance of thinking suggests the need for learning activities which promote this ability of man if he is not to be totally dependent as a learner and a thinker. Four examples of the kinds of activities which might stimulate student thought, both intuitively and cognitively, were provided. (Author/RK)

Article offers nine essentials about teaching composition, essentials creating a classroom environment and rapport conducive to doing writing of merit. (Author/RK)

Presents the open'' classroom: its development and its character. (RK)

The present research was designed to begin to explore the relationship between pupil control and the instructional climate in the classroom. (Author/RK)

A research project, which sought to compare the authoritarian/democratic attitudes of retired military personnel with those of nonmilitary career teachers, concluded that retired military teachers were not perceived to be as democratic, projected a greater degree of authoritarianism, and had less student involvement in open inquiry and…