Defines the content of English teaching and points out that unless English teachers have a clear picture of what they should be doing, they can hardly judge the success or failure of what they are doing. (Author/RK)

Provides some suggestions for teachers in managing their students and a list of fundamentals that teachers should always keep in mind. (RK)

For over 20 years a teacher from the Colorado Rocky Mountain School, Carbondale, Colorado, has been leading his students through outdoor trips. Here he shares his thoughts on outdoor education and what happens when a death occurs on a school trip by asking questions and giving answers from his experience. (Author/RK)

The author gives three major reasons for a student being habitually late to class: resistance, disorganization, or unavoidable schedule conflicts. He makes specific suggestions to teachers for dealing with the disorganized and resistant latecomers. (SJL)

Lacking stable values and a real role to fulfill, youth in our society feel disconnected. To encourage a sense of belonging and importance, our schools and colleges should offer students a more humanistic education and closer personal involvement with their teachers. (SJL)

A program geared toward high school students is described. It is independent of the curriculum, and goes beyond discussions of alcohol use to tackle the larger issues of life, death, and well-being. (Author/KC)

Examines the problems of a gifted student going through elementary and secondary school and suggests some guidelines for parents and teachers in helping these students to satisfy their emotional needs. (RK)

Schools teach much more than the traditional curriculum. They also teach a "hidden curriculum"--those unstated norms, values, and beliefs promoting hierarchic and authoritarian social relations that are transmitted to students through the underlying educational structure. Discusses the effects of the "hidden curriculum" on the student and how…

Describes the Live, Learn and Teach program, an eight-day wilderness experience in New Hampshire's White Mountains, designed to develop student teacher relations. It includes six weeks of curriculum-design sessions and a practicum in which teaching teams experiment with new skills and behaviors as they design and carry out an activity-centered and…

Compares the principles of music in playing jazz with the teaching method necessary for developing composition skills in students. In attempting to improve composition courses, teachers need to help students choose subjects reflecting their own interests rather than being forced to emulate certain pre-existing forms and styles. (Author/RK)

Students should do their best in learning to study and grow, present their achievements in the classroom with pride, and communicate honestly with their teachers. This way they will learn to accept themselves and work with their teachers in a productive fashion. (RK)

A middle-aged teacher describes his experiences as a beginning karate student and how he has transferred those experiences to the classroom. (RK)

An elementary school teacher searches for methods to stimulate deprived students--students who have been deprived of just being themselves, of learning just for the joy of learning--to find a heightened sense of themselves in a positive, constructive manner. (RK)

After a brief description of recent trends in educational discipline, the article notes some common features of disciplined classrooms: mutual respect, clear expectations, organized teaching and learning, materials geared to learning style and ability, warmth and caring, opportunities to release tension, educationally sound penalty system, and…

Independent schools are in an excellent position to meet what may be the key educational challenge of the 1980s--maintaining a balance between intellectual/academic education, realistic/practical education, and ethical education. (SB)