Special edition devoted to media in modern language instruction. (RS)

Special edition devoted to media in modern language instruction. (RS)

A cycling course can take advantage of students' interests, teach safe cycling, and give students a fuller appreciation of a lifetime sport. Suggestions for planning and scheduling a cycling course, covering safety procedures, and considering other elements necessary for a successful course are given. (PP)

Offers arguments for the use of published textbook material as a basis on which to mold the unpredictable interactions necessary to classroom language learning. Suggests that textbooks are useful for orientation and independent study and describes the gradual process of replacement by which new textbook materials evolve. (Author/MES)

Describes a successful approach to teaching poetry to reluctant students. (HTH)

Reports on a teaching technique that emphasizes the logical, sequential developments involved in business report writing by having students follow a model business report as they work on their own research projects. (RL)

Four main areas of concern in team teaching are organizing course material, managing time, remaining in contact with students, and establishing good relationships among team members. (LH)

Presents concerns expressed by instructors teaching university courses on women in politics: course organization, interdepartmental communication between instructors of women's courses, field focus of course, question of role of sex in politics, instructor's pedagogical style, consciousness-raising, and methodological implications. (ND)

Addresses the effects of a modularly assessed course on teaching style. Reviews the types of learning activities and the frequency of their use by using the data gathered as part of the A-Level Information System. Concludes that most modular courses were found to be taught in more didactic fashion than linearly assessed courses. (Author/ASK)

Ten years ago, after 20 years as a university professor, I was asked to direct the teaching and learning support center at my university. I quickly realized I had almost no knowledge of the published scholarship on this subject. From my reading of this literature, I found the research on the predictors of student learning particularly informative.…

Undergraduate geography field courses are relatively rare at American universities, though they can exemplify well the fundamental tenets of learner-centered education. This article reports on an intensive three-week field analysis course taught at Northern Arizona University at Flagstaff, within the Department of Geography, Planning, and…

Based on the assumption that good teaching helps students understand how to actively acquire, use, and extend knowledge in an ongoing learning process, this guide presents strategies for constructing learning-centered course syllabi. Following prefatory materials, part 1 reviews implications of shifting from traditional syllabi, which focus on…

This volume of an annual collection of essays relating to instruction in the basic communication course is presented in five sections: (1) Six Approaches to the Introductory Course: A Forum; (2) 1990 Basic Course Committee Award Winning Papers; (3) Instruction in the Introductory Communication Course; (4) Research on the Introductory Communication…