cues such as smiling during certain students’ responses and scratching his or her head during other students’ responses. The teacher's role in the discussion is to encourage the students to expand on their classmates’ ideas or to ask students to clarify their own ideas. Legacy Through Hilda Taba's teachings and through her books, Taba greatly contributed to American education. In a 1970 survey of over two hundred educators who had participated in training concerning the Taba approach, nearly all of the educators said the strategies were valuable to their classrooms. Some of the teachers even reported that Taba's approach to teaching was “the most valuable teaching technique they had ever acquired.” References 1902 births 1967 deaths People from Kanepi Parish People from the Governorate of Livonia Estonian architects American women architects 20th-century American architects 20th-century American women artists Estonian women architects University of Tartu alumni Teachers College, Columbia University alumni