Author developed a metric olympics in order to provide students with exercise, fun and practice with metric measurement. (Author/RK)

The Western Region AMIDS Evaluation Team examined a variety of approaches to leadership development which would make it possible for adult, business, technical and vocational educators to become knowledgeable in evaluation. The following three intents were specified for the leadership development project: (1) to provide participants with an…

This paper reports on a ten-week course, taught twice since the 1972 fall quarter, at the University of California, Irvine, where the computer served extensively as a teaching device. The primary intent of the course was to use the computer not as a resource for learning but rather as a resources for learning about learning. (Author)

Includes learning activities that will help motivate students to ask questions and seek alternative solutions to problems. Children will better understand themselves and the world around them when they begin to relate to time and space, develop such thinking skills as classifying and ordering and make connections between objects and events.…

It is noted that the Montessori Approach which involves programed instruction can be useful in teaching practical living skills to retarded and other handicapped children. (SBH)

Discusses the concept "situation," as distinct from "context," distinguishing also between real and fictious situations. Types of situations are discussed, and methodological suggestions are offered as to which types to introduce at which stages of instruction. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Five teachers describe games and methods they use to interest children in spelling. (SB)

Ideas, suggestions and activities for preschool through the early primary grades. (Editor)

Includes suggestions for how to read manuscripts correctly (what parts should be checked) and ways in which teachers can use visual aids to help students learn proofreading marks. (SH)

Describes such Story Workshop activities as beginning recall exercises, word exercises, oral readings, writing assignments, and tutorial conferences. (DD)

Presents ten activity cards which can be used in developing students' defining skills. (DD)

Explained is a step-by-step approach for using chalkboard exercises to teach cursive writing to elementary level learning disabled students. (CL)

Presents four teaching activities suitable for students in early elementary grades. The activities focus on creating a database for student use, a bulletin board which uses a visual diagram of modular programing, a program (with listing) which uses graphics to present a birthday greeting, and a random number program. (JN)

How the strategy of uninterrupted sustained silent reading, can be adapted as uninterrupted sustained arithmetic for use in mathematics classes and clinics is discussed. Several activities are described and illustrated. (MNS)