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The Source of Good Teaching.
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Lindley, Daniel A., Jr. – English Education, 1987
Studies the relationships between teacher and students, and discusses the characteristics of effective teaching in this context. Presents an approach to teaching which combines curriculum, intellectual operations (memory, and convergent, divergent, and evaluative thinking), and feelings. (MM)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Power Structure
In Defense of Grammar.
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Davis, Frederica – English Education, 1984
Relating to her own experiences and to her reading of "Language and Mind" by Noam Chomsky, the author argues for the teaching of traditional grammar. (HOD)
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Elective Courses, Elementary Secondary Education, English Teacher Education
The Future of English Teaching: Five Scenarios.
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Allen, Sheilah; Ollila, Lloyd O. – English Education, 1982
Reviews the accuracy of past predictions concerning the future of English education, then makes five new ones. (JL)
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, English Curriculum, English Instruction
A Treatment of Death in the Classroom.
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Ulin, Richard O. – English Education, 1980
Argues that teaching a unit on death provides an opportunity to focus students' reading, writing, and thinking on a subject area in which they are vitally interested. Suggests activities and describes the extensive literature available on death suitable for elementary through college students. (AEA)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Death, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
What Beginning English Teachers Need to Know about Motivating the Unmotivated: These Learners Do Have Potential.
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Brooks, Charlotte K. – English Education, 1979
Uses anecdotes to illustrate suggestions on how to involve reluctant learners in the study of English. (DD)
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, Language Arts
What Beginning English Teachers Need to Know about the Talented and Gifted: We Lay Waste Their Powers.
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Frazier, Virginia – English Education, 1979
Describes how to identify gifted and talented children and develop programs for them. (DD)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Development
What Beginning English Teachers Need to Know about Classroom Discipline.
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Voth, John – English Education, 1979
Considers classroom discipline from the standpoints of professional action vs reaction, social equality vs hierarchical relationships, and personal need vs common needs. (DD)
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Discipline, Discipline Problems, Elementary Secondary Education
Intertextual Composition: The Power of the Digital Pen.
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Callahan, Meg – English Education, 2002
Explores--through a close analysis of one innovative class project--the questions of text, power, and technology implied in a shift to a broader definition of text in the English classroom. Poses the intersection of technology and media literacy as a crucial site for new understandings of the texts at stake in twenty-first century literacies and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, Literacy
Literacies as Social Practices.
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Luke, Allan – English Education, 1991
Argues that it is only with a sense of what literacy as a historic and culture-specific technology has achieved that educators can begin to realize the possibilities for reshaping students' literacies as social practices. (MG)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Literacy, Reading Instruction, Reading Teachers
An Ideological Approach to Grammar Pedagogy in English Education Courses.
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Hagemann, Julie; Wininger, Melvin – English Education, 1999
Presents an ideological model of literacy for teaching grammar. Discusses its connection to guidelines for teacher preparation and language-arts standards. Discusses strategies in language classes to help teachers see language and grammar, along with language and grammar pedagogy, in broader terms. Concludes that English-teaching majors must…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, English Teacher Education