Presented is a collection of teacher developed materials and techniques for instruction of visually impaired children. Included are ideas for general instruction, specific suggestions for teaching ways to fasten things, a visual acuity testing method, and educational planning aides (a sample chart and parent questionnaire). (IM)

How can the content teacher improve his student's learning of history or math and give them practice in writing at the same time? SSSW (Sustained Student Summary Writing) is one resolution of this issue. (Author)

It was found that those doing copying practice exercises achieved significantly higher posttest scores than those doing tracing practice exercises. (PCB)

A number of exercises for promoting communication and self-expression in the classroom are described. (RM)

Advocates the use of peer and cross-age teaching in the elementary grades. Play as a method for peer teaching is emphasized. (CM)

Secondary students examine a letter of appeal written during the Depression to President Franklin Roosevelt. The letter is from an attorney concerned with his unemployed father and his ill mother. Suggested exercises include discussion of the letter as an historical document and writing a similar letter. (KC)

This article presents an eclectic approach to spelling instruction, combining ideas from two basic methods: phonetic and memorization. Teaching procedures, student activities, and materials are suggested. A chart of the most basic reading/spelling generalizations is included. (SJL)

Describes how foreign stamps can be collected, catalogued, photographed, and arranged in thematic areas in order to be incorporated into a language curriculum or culture cluster. (Author/AM)

A teacher describes a banking unit used in a sixth-grade mathematics class. Students learned the value of money by receiving a pretend paycheck for their chosen occupation and paying weekly, monthly, and annual bills. (MP)

By using songs, famous quotations, poems, and a questionnaire with each day's or week's new group of students, a substitute teacher quickly establishes rapport with her students. (Author/RK)

Brief descriptions are offered of activities relevant to teaching the history of psychology. Suggestions range from simple demonstrations requiring no materials to more extensive projects. Reconstruction of early laboratory instruments such as the projection lantern, demonstrations of psychological concepts, and studies of associative processes…

The article describes the development of a unit for deaf children using a hands-on media approach to facilitate the acquisition of various English language structures and to initiate the development of predicting meaningful language, given a visual stimulus. (SBH)

Discusses the use of "creativity seminars" for releasing the creative senses necessary to language learning. (AM)

Presents ideas for teaching basic skills. Includes strategies for teaching about human rights, directions for making an adding machine to use in addition and subtraction drill, activities for developing effective discussion skills, and suggestions for teaching place-name geography. (JMB)