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Miller, Harry B. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2012
Teaching vocabulary often began as a poorly organized, extensive list of new terms presented to students each week. Students recorded a selected list of words and sought their meanings. With time devoted to study and review of the new terms, students were considered prepared for a test on mastery by the final class session of the week. The…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Vocabulary Development, Academic Achievement, Verbal Development
Schwartz, John Pedro – College English, 2008
The author calls for incorporating into English classes what he calls museum-based pedagogy, arguing that it enables the teaching of multiple literacies: verbal, visual, technological, social, and critical. In part, this pedagogy consists of classroom instruction that enables students to understand the persuasive nature of museum displays--the…
Descriptors: Museums, Educational Technology, Information Literacy, Computer Literacy
Mendiola, Rosalinda; Bahar, Cheryl; Brody, Jill; Slott, Gayle L. – Blind Childrens Center, 2005
This booklet was inspired by the need of educators and therapists of preschool students who are blind and visually impaired to share their observations of children with Optic Nerve Hypoplasia (ONH) and the therapies found to be helpful when working with these children. The work done at the Blind Childrens Center is very rewarding, and these…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Young Children, Preschool Children, Teaching Methods
Cole, Martha – 1979
Language training for the non-verbal or language delayed child should utilize feedback to reinforce correct responses and should closely follow the syntactical development of normal children. The two basic areas of language training are receptive and expressive. Receptive language training includes attending and responding, following single phase…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Expressive Language, Feedback, Language Handicaps

Soundy, Cathleen S.; Genisio, Margaret Humadi – Childhood Education, 1994
Describes an instructional approach that encourages teachers to guide children in narrating stories based on actual or imagined experiences, particularly those that transpire in the classroom. Discusses ways of incorporating events from dramatic play and everyday occurrences into storytelling activities and offers a story sampler that exemplifies…
Descriptors: Dramatic Play, Emergent Literacy, Imagination, Language Acquisition

Dunn, James R. – American Biology Teacher, 1989
Outlined are strategies for dealing with the problem of students' lack of ability to verbalize multi-syllable vocabulary words in the sciences. A pronunciation examination, the development of corollary writing skills, vocabulary development, student journals, writing exercises, and microthemes are discussed. (RT)
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, College Science, Interdisciplinary Approach, Sciences
Bossone, Richard M., Ed. – 1982
This booklet contains proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the University/Urban Schools National Task Force. The conference was held to present information about four programs designed to help high school students to sharpen their reasoning skills. Criteria for program development state that: (1) the program can be taught to teachers in a…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, College Bound Students, Courses

Cook, Guy – ELT Journal, 1997
Challenges the belief in contemporary English language teaching that students should be exposed to authentic or natural language focused on achieving practical purposes, and draws some lessons from the classroom from the way young children play with language. (15 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Childrens Games, Course Content

Englert, Carol Sue; Mariage, Troy V. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1996
The activities of a literacy project are described as examples of social constructivism. The role of social and dialogic interactions of teachers and students in literacy communities in which the production, rather than the reproduction, of knowledge is the goal of the instruction is emphasized. Examples of teacher and student dialog are provided.…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities

Ciochine, John G.; Polivka, Grace – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 1997
Describes the use of writing activities as tools for teaching mathematics while helping students develop communication and reasoning skills. Writing takes the form of formal essays about mathematical problems, writing to prompts, or focused journal writing. Students learn to clarify, refine, and consolidate thinking. Children learn mathematics…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Content Area Writing, Cues, Instructional Innovation

Enright, D. Scott; McCloskey, Mary Lou – TESOL Quarterly, 1985
Summarizes the central assumptions of the communicative language teaching model and the potential difficulties that regular classroom teachers may face in implementing it. Seven criteria for use in organizing communicative classrooms are presented, and applications of these criteria to decisions about organizing classroom interaction and the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Class Organization, Classroom Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages)