Reviews the rationale for the use of simulation and game exercises as part of counselor education programs. Counselor competencies in the areas of knowledge, skills, and self-awareness are discussed; and the use of experience-based learning activities is explained, including the debriefing stage. (Contains three references.) (LRW)

Improvisation teaches students that they have the power to create. Drama can be a rehearsal for life, where students learn from successes and mistakes. Topics for improvisation can relate directly to class work or stimulate discussion of new topics. The article examines three steps for teaching improvisation (verbalization, visualization, and…

The first part describes Project HIP-HOP (Highways into the Past: Organizing and Power), in which Boston students visited key sites of the civil rights movement and learned about nonviolence from participants. In the second part, a student describes what he learned about racism and activism. (SK)

Examined the effects of tutoring on college students' ability to learn a computer programming language in order to characterize effective tutor behaviors. Found that successful tutors took a very active role in leading problem-solving by offering confirmatory feedback and additional guidance while students were on profitable paths and error…

The emphasis of this field study is on the management of natural resources with the specific goal of multiple-use management for a selected woodlot. Working in small groups, students observe, identify, and measure various characteristics of the forest in order to generate a management plan. (LZ)

This paper describes techniques for helping business administration students to explore their creative unknowns by rewarding them for creative thinking and risk-taking in the development of a real business, even if the business failed. The role of trial and error in learning and creativity is explored, along with the importance of sustaining…

The University of Arizona Medical School focuses on occupational health issues in a five-week interdisciplinary summer institute for medical students and in a portion of a required course on clinical medicine. Students learn about occupational health issues through lectures, seminars, and visits to local workplace settings. (DB)

Presents a description of the Rivers Project, cited as an integrated, multidimensional science, technology, and society project developed to introduce water quality dimensions into high school curricula. Discusses the telecommunications network that connects all the participating schools, individual school projects, and the national recognition…

Seven theme articles discuss the importance for vocational agricultural teachers to allow students to work through the solution to problems posed in classroom situations, learning and teaching styles, the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills report, the use of experimentation as experiential learning, and problem solving as the key…

Presents helpful suggestions for counseling handicapped children. Includes brief review of the literature, then presents rationale for basing counseling model on environmental-experiential approach to developing personal and social growth. Provides three sets of directions for establishing and maintaining environment and two sets of instructions…

A study of paramedics revealed the following modes of informal learning: during task performance, from performance mistakes, through reflection while documenting performance, and from the experience of others. Routine and nonroutine partnerships played an important part. (SK)

"Performance assessment" is a broad term covering many types of testing methods that requires students to demonstrate their competencies or knowledge by creating an answer or a product. Seven common forms of performance assessment are constructed-response items, writing, essay responses, oral discourse, exhibitions, experiments, and portfolios.…

Reviews current elements of administrative thought and practice, aiming to provide a comprehensive outline for new programmatic ventures in educating future principals. Describes an existing nontraditional leadership preparation program at Butler University that allows students to work cooperatively on projects, learn through self-direction,…

In a study of oddity performance, subjects were required to choose one distinct bimodal stimulus from a display that included other stimuli that did not differ from each other. Oddity performance was evaluated with both reversal assessments and assessments with new stimuli. The usefulness of bimodal training in oddity learning was demonstrated.…

Reported are the results of a questionnaire administered to 135 teachers in Alabama to determine the effects of encouragement on their use of hands-on science activities. The effect of personal success on teaching style is also discussed. A copy of the questionnaire is included. (CW)