Semistructured interviews with 14 high school students who had lost parents to death or divorce disclosed some important findings. School was deemed a place of security and safety. Students with divorced parents received more teacher support than those who had lost parents to death. Students basically wanted to be accepted and considered no…

Faced with an outbreak of meningococcal disease, an upstate New York school system swung into action. The district's plan included informing proper medical authorities, calling a planning meeting of key administrators and health officials, communicating with parents, keeping area districts informed, issuing daily updates for staff, designating…

Describes a suburban Wisconsin high school's crisis-management plan as applied to the accidental deaths of four sophomore boys. The school community survived this crisis because the school had a plan, improvised appropriately, and communicated well with the community and each other; because outside support people acted effectively; and because…

Offers 10 "Golden Rules" to make electronic mail a positive experience for both business communication teachers and their students. Suggests that electronic mail can be a motivating factor in the classroom. (RS)

The behavior of special education students (age 12 and 16) was evaluated as they were presented with 2 academic response alternatives on concurrent reinforcement schedules. Both subjects allocated higher rates of responses to the richer schedule of reinforcement, although only 1 responded exclusively to the richer schedule. (Author/JDD)

Discusses 10 works of children's literature that inspired powerful responses and conversations among students in children's literature classes. Notes a myriad of responses (not only as to content but to levels of meaning as well) among the students. (RS)

Presents a discussion of teaching May Swenson poems. Notes that what students receive from May Swenson's work is a "consciousness of looking at writing in a physical way." (SG)

Asserts that North American medical education favors an explicit commitment to traditional values of doctoring--empathy, compassion, and altruism--but a tacit commitment to behaviors grounded in an ethic of detachment, self-interest, and objectivity. Explores differing ways (conflation, deflation, and maintaining of values) that students respond…

Examines types and frequency of coaching of learning at the middle school level and its relation to students' strategic-learning. Results reveal that instances of teachers' coaching of learning occurred in only 9% of the instruction segments and that students' strategic-learning activity was significantly related to teachers' coaching of learning.…

Presents student responses to nonfiction literature of the Vietnam War. Describes reasons for teaching the nonfiction literature of the Vietnam War. Concludes that this literature is accessible and engaging to students, and it deals with issues that speak to students in powerful ways. (SG)

Features five poems written by children in five different classrooms in central Illinois. Describes how each class approached their writing assignments in response the attacks of September 11, 2001. (SG)

Describes how as part of a nine-week unit on tolerance and prejudice, the author's middle school students became immersed in Holocaust literature. Notes that the theme of bearing witness, of never forgetting, which runs through the literature, is the central driving force of work in the classroom. (SG)

This article presents a picture of how unique, varied and valuable the AECT intern experience can be. While some of the reflections are very broad and others very specific in focus, the authors have discussed as a group their shared conviction that these experiences are not limited only to the AECT interns. The possibilities for similar…

A new club in Rhode Island invited every Rhode Islander to read the same book and participate in the conversation on importance of reading. Narrative, analytical and various responses of students on reading "Wish You Well" are mentioned.

This study analyses some of the consequences of adopting a functional/modelling approach to the teaching of algebra. The teaching of one class of 17 students was observed over five weeks, with 15 students undertaking both pre- and post-tests and 6 students and the teacher being interviewed individually. Use of graphics calculators made the…