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Article: Teachers and 'stuff.'
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- Phi Delta Kappan
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- June 1, 1995
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Pictures, puzzles, dittos, cutouts, games, storybooks, and so on - such "stuff" is the crucial element that is often missing from models of elementary school teaching, Mr. Van Horn has realized.
What I'm about to ask you might seem just a little bit crazy, but bear with me. See if you can detect a pattern in or similarity between the four cases that follow.
* Models of Teaching, by Bruce Joyce and Marsha Weil, published over 20 years ago, and dozens of similar books on new and innovative teaching methods have consistently failed to affect the way the average teacher teaches.
* John Zahorik, who in 1975 did the classic research study on teacher ...