Teaching in America: The Common Ground
A Report of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute

Table of 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