Shoreline Public Schools

The previous ten chapters have each discussed simple, powerful steps toward implementing Student Centered Learning. This chapter looks more strategically at implementing the overall paradigm shift.

We humans are social animals. We learn best and enjoy learning most when we learn with and for others. The research-supported benefits of students working together include increased higher order thinking, greater engagement, higher self esteem and higher test scores. Thus, student–student interaction, a.k.a., peer interaction, collaborative learning, and cooperative learning, should be a regular and significant aspect of students’ learning experiences.

ABSTRACTConsidering the large amounts spent by the pharmaceutical industry on research and development, it is surprising that many of the industry's marketing strategies are based on sales assumptions that have been used largely unchallenged. Many of these techniques are not useful and can actually negatively affect the prescribing habits of primary care physicians. This article shares a primary care physician's observations on pharmaceutical marketing and some suggestions about how pharmaceutical marketing could be more effective.