Centered Instruction versus
Student Centered Instruction
as a Means of Teaching American
Government to High School Seniors
A Recipe for Math by Hansen and Green
Pre-K: Jump Starts Georgia's 4-year-olds by Brown and Douglas
How Does Your Garden Grow? by Weber
Research in grades 5-8
Mentoring: Hope or Hype? by Sitterding
Research in grades 9-12
Are Floaters Belly Up? by Hughston
Voluntary Corporal Punishment Reduces
Suspension Rates by Yancey
Teacher Centered and Student Centered Approaches to Instruction in Social Studies by Hayes
Administrative policy
"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things", stated the French philosopher Jacques Rousseau. There is no better way to describe the difficulty of implementing non-traditional teaching methods. One of the hardest things for administrators and teachers to accept is the idea of change, though the mandate to reform public education has become a high profile, highly politicized, widely accepted inevitability. Indeed, increasing student’s test scores and decreasing classroom discipline problems will require new approaches.
The purpose of this study is to identify the effectiveness of non-traditional instruction in two high school social studies classes. Students’ academic achievement will be measured and compared after receiving non-traditional instruction and traditional instruction. In the classroom of one hundred years ago, the teacher established order, presented the rules and lectured. The students sat in straight rows listening and perhaps taking notes on their slates. In the new paradigm, student seating is adaptable, students are expected to move around and get "hands on" experience, while the teacher acts more as a guide and less as the sole authority.
Brad Hayes
(1993) West Georgia
College graduate, B.S. in Secondary Ed.
(1998) Berry College graduate, M.S. in Early Childhood Ed.
(2000) Jacksonville State Univ. graduate, M.S. in Administration
(2001) Berry College graduate, Ed.S. in Curriculum & Leadership
Taught 6 years at Gordon Central High School (Calhoun,GA.)
Taught 1 year at Armuchee High School (Rome, GA.)
I taught social studies & coached baseball, softball, & football.
Currently, Assistant Principal at Lafayette High School, as well as grant coordinator for
the school &
chairman of the "school of excellence" committee.
Wife: Judy Swanson Hayes (married for 6 years)
Son: Luke Hayes (4 years old)
Another son to be born on May 31, 2001. (Jake Hayes)
Brad & family reside in Trion, Georgia on his 160 acre family farm.