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Bowden, William R. – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2015
Summer programs that experiment with combining media literacy and social-emotional learning can potentially affect students' academic performance. Based on a six-week program, working with rising eighth grade students in a low-income school district, this program allowed students to work on media projects while trying to develop stronger…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Media Literacy, Metacognition
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Wright, Donna G.; Cunningham, Claude H. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1979
The three-week elementary school program in Houston, Texas, offered seminars, student selected interest activities, and group activities in which children planned and constructed a part of a future world and were thus exposed to problem solving, decision making, and research activities. (DLS)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Creative Thinking, Decision Making, Elementary Education
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White, K. D.; Saravanabhavan, R. C. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1995
This paper describes a summer program teaching independent living skills to 20 adults with visual impairments. Results suggest the program had a lasting and profound impact on clients' previously low knowledge of job hunting, decision making, stress management, and self-care skills. Interaction with other adults with visual impairments and…
Descriptors: Adults, Coping, Daily Living Skills, Decision Making
Newman, Judith M. – 1991
This volume examines learning, teaching, and reflective practice. It is a personal account of a summer institute held in 1989 during which 21 teachers engaged in an exploration of writing and reading. Among metaphors discussed at the institute, one of the most powerful was the notion of teaching/learning being created from a fabric of interwoven…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education