Teaching in America: The Common Ground

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Teaching in America: The Common Ground

A Report of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute

Contents

	Preface ______Adrienne Y. Bailey
	Introduction ______James R. Vivian
1.	The Concept of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute: The Primacy of Teachers ______James R. Vivian
2.	Encounter with a City: Education and the Promise of Local History ______Howard R. Lamar
3.	The City in Black and White and Color: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Life in the City ______Robert Johnson Moore
4.	The Play's the Thing ______Thomas R. Whitaker
5.	Poetry and Paintings: Teaching Mood, Metaphor, and Pattern Through a Comparative Study ______Jane K. Marshall
6.	On Batting .667: Three Courses for the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute ______Robin W. Winks
7.	Finding the Key: Teaching Detective Fiction in the Developmental Classroom ______Pamela M. Price-Anisman
8.	Teaching a Science Seminar in the Teachers Institute ______Maurice J. Mahoney, M.D.
9.	Teaching about Prenatal Development in Biology ______Elisabet O. Orville
10.	Teaching Teachers: A Faculty View of the New Haven Teachers Institute ______Richard H. Brodhead
11.	Teaching Through: The University and the Development of Minority Literature ______Michael G. Cooke
	Appendices:
	An Evaluation of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute ______Ernest L. Boyer
	An Evaluation of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute ______Robert Kellogg
	Summary of Principal Findings: Report on Questionnaires Administered in 1982 to New Haven Teachers ______
	Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute Seminars Offered Between 1978 and 1982 ______
	The Authors ______
	Acknowledgment ______

A publication of the College Entrance Examination Board: New York, 1985.

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Copyright © 1985 by College Entrance Examination Board. Introduction and Chapter 1 © 1985 by James R. Vivian. Chapters 2-10 and the Appendix © 1983 by Yale University for the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. Reproduced by permission. All rights reserved.

Second printing, 1997.

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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 84-73171.

ISBN: 0-87447-192-3.

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