Focuses on the signs and characteristics of maturity in children's writing. Discusses signs such as providing details; elaborating on the subject; varying sentence patterns; deepening the presentation; unfolding the presentation; and sustaining the focus of the topic. Discusses the teacher's role. (RS)

Presents a passage from Tolstoy's essay "The School at Yasnaya Polyana." Discusses his experience as a teacher walking through the woods with several children and telling them stories. Describes their reactions and personalities, all very different. (SC)

Discusses the literacy development of both deaf and hearing children. Offers techniques to attempt in the classroom, including a Reader's Workshop, and specific ideas about teachers as facilitators. (RS)

Describes things the author learned from presentations at the 2001 Whole Language Umbrella conference, including: not many classroom teachers attended the conference; classroom teachers and professors need each other; people take pride in the whole language name; the most powerful force in a classroom is an expert teacher; and building a community…

The current UK agenda for modernization of schools places great emphasis on the reconsideration of the roles and boundaries of teaching and support staff. Internationally there is a significant move towards the inclusion of all children within a mainstream setting as an undeniable right. This carries great implications for staff in mainstream…

Learning how to teach depends on the dynamic inter-relationships among many parts and people; however, research on learning how to teach has typically focused on confined aspects of teacher education (e.g., a specific methods course) over short periods of time (such as one semester). In response, Wideen, Mayer-Smith, and Moon (1998), in their…

Attributions for students described in case studies as exhibiting immature, unmanageable, or perceptually-delayed behaviors in the classroom were provided by 174 regular education elementary school teachers. The teachers' attributions for the students' difficulties were primarily "other-directed"; student or home factors were most often…

A rural district designed a unique program for gifted elementary students which allowed any teacher the opportunity to develop and teach a qualitatively different unit to students identified as gifted. The half-day once-a-week pull-out program encouraged teachers to be part of the selection process and employed a coordinator to monitor the…

Presents the results of a two-part survey conducted among reading teachers to determine the role of the remedial reading teacher. (RB)

Argues that every child may have potential in all areas of language, and that it is the teacher's task to help each student realize this potential while maintaining a steady level of expectation of what pupils are likely to achieve. (RB)

The schoolroom is a good setting for teaching young adolescents about their sexuality, and the nurse is a well-equipped teacher. (Author)

The study, involving 195 gifted third, fourth, and sixth graders, examined the effectiveness and efficiency of teacher recommendation as a means of identying gifted children. (Author/SBH)

A learning disabilities group teacher in elementary school describes how she improved relations with regular class students and teachers by bringing her group to the other classes to perform science experiments. (SBH)

Provides eight tips that may help language arts teachers better manage their time. (DD)

Offers a humorous look at the problem of assessment. (FL)