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McGrath, David – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1990
A teacher at Chicago Vocational High School describes how he interested a group of urban high school students in American poetry. Emphasizes anticipating the reasons for student resistance and drawing on students' likes and interests. (FMW)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Learning Motivation, Personal Narratives, Poetry
Meighan, Shirley – American School Board Journal, 1985
Adapting teaching materials and strategies to the learning preferences of each child can make a difference in how well and how much students learn. Steps in introducing strategies based on learning styles into an elementary school are described, and recommendations are provided for initiating a learning styles program. (TE)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style, Educational Strategies, Elementary Education
Swett, Sheila – Electronic Learning, 1986
Discusses how and why three schools are using computers to teach bilingual students and describes the CHIPS Project, West New York; Computer Education Language Learning Program, Irvine School District; and Applied Computer Technology in Education Project, Compton Unified School District. Six bilingual education computer-using demonstration…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Software
Download full textFarris, Pamela J. – 1992
Leaders in business and industry are demanding workers who not only can read and write but can think creatively and critically and solve problems. Federal- and state-funded programs and volunteer organizations are involved with adult literacy. Increasingly, corporations are funding adult literacy projects. Adults read for different reasons than…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Educational Objectives
Apps, Jerold W. – 1992
The adults who participate in classes, workshops, and other learning opportunities are as diverse as the kinds of programs in which they enroll and the reasons for which they enroll. Adult learners are multifaceted, appreciate flexibility in teaching strategies, and want a say in what they will learn. These purposes for adult education are…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Delivery Systems
Gaffney, Maureen, Ed. – Young Viewers Magazine, 1980
Designed for media specialists and educators, this issue includes five articles exploring the contributions of children's films to museum programs. Following a brief editorial encouraging the use of films in museums, the first article outlines a picture storybook model for evaluating children's films. Several storybook models are identified, and a…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Family Involvement
Ihde, Thomas W., Ed.; Stenson, Nancy, Ed. – Journal of Celtic Language Learning, 1996
The journal for teachers of Celtic languages in the United States and Canada contains six articles. "Motivation and Gender: A Welsh Case Study" (Christine M. Jones) examines data on characteristics of one group of students of Welsh, focusing on gender-related motivational differences. "Morphological Objects" (Annette…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, College Second Language Programs, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational History
