Makes a case for adventure and fantasy computer games as encouraging development of problem-solving skills and organizational abilities and for fostering reading comprehension. Suggests ways of incorporating these games into classroom activities. (RBW)

Contributors offer suggestions for teaching "David Copperfield," a vocabulary unit built around the theme of love, and a vocabulary guessing game. (HOD)

Discusses word games and activities that encourage students to use dictionaries and alternate forms in their writing. (HTH)

Suggests that films can enrich students' understanding of the literature on which they are based and can strengthen the same academic competencies students are expected to develop through reading. (MM)

The author advocates the use of questions whose relevance to the topic being studied as not immediately apparent, as a method of broadening students' facility and interest in their mathematics classes. (SD)

After comparing the continental schools of Europe with those of the United States, this paper deals with the disabilities of universities here and the possible ways of reducing or removing them. (Author/RK)

Offers eleven examples of games for the French class which can be conducted without special materials. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Five steps helpful to teachers in implementing a seminar (used as a teaching method with vocational students) are identified and discussed: (1) Topic selection, (2) identification of subtopics, (3) student research of subtopics, (4) reporting of information, and (5) concluding and evaluating. (TA)

Discusses roles for improvised role-playing as a language exercise in the French class. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Proposes French language learning activities based on dramatic techniques. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Proposes a technique for guiding French language students in creative writing exercises. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Discusses the role of games in the French class, and gives examples of some possible approaches. (Text is in French.) (AM)

In three college level psychology courses the author has used a "media project" technique to relate course content to popular media. Students search popular media for items applicable to the course and then rate them for relevance, centrality, and degree of misrepresentation. (AV)

This manual is intended to provide both practical skills for engaging in nonformal education (NFE) and some underlying theory to help you define and develop your own approach to NFE. Based on two previously published Peace Corps resources, "Nonformal Education Manual" (ICE No. M0042) and "Nonformal Education Training Module" (ICE No. T0064), this…

This document contains materials from a half day workshop held at Petit Secondary School for mathematics teachers at Petit Bordel and Troumaca Ontario Secondary School on the island of St. Vincent in the Caribbean. This book advocates the use of activity-based mathematics as a teaching methodology in secondary schools and demonstrates the use of…