These classroom guides, designed to accompany the daily CNN (Cable News Network) Newsroom broadcasts for the month of January 2002, provide program rundowns, suggestions for class activities and discussion, student handouts, and a list of related news terms. Top stories include: tensions escalate between Pakistan and India, (January 3-4); the…

This study addressed how to maintain "use or lose" language skills among Department of Defense linguists. The study, which involved over 300 linguists at 61 installations worldwide, supported the Air Force strategy of global engagement by regularly providing pedagogically sound language maintenance materials in small doses and…

The teacher's role in supporting students as they shifted from teacher-led discussions to student-led discussions was studied as part of an ethnographic study of teacher-student interactions in a third grade classroom serving 29 students. Field notes, video recordings, transcripts of classroom sessions, and teacher interviews were used to collect…

This paper describes one teacher's experiences teaching English to Mexican university students at the Instituto Technologico y de Estudios Superiores de Mexico (ITESM), which is considered Mexico's top private university. The author taught two levels of English as a Second Language: English 2 and advanced English. The entire ITESM system used the…

The purpose of this study was to examine the discourse in two different group-work contexts in a diverse Algebra 1 class to better understand what and how students working in small groups learn through talking about mathematics. The researcher gathered data in four categories: participant observation, interviews, collection of artifacts, and…

Two special classes, each containing eight educable mentally retarded students, 9 and 10 years of age, respectively, played a group discussion game twice a week for 3 consecutive weeks in which the teachers presented a discussion topic and reinforced specified good discussion behaviors with high points. (MC)

Self-contained classrooms for emotionally distrubed children provide an ideal setting for teachers to deal with students' behaviors, feelings and attitudes as these factors relate to their membership in a unique group. This paper gives ideas which teachers may find helpful in dealing with pupils' feelings about themselves and others through the…

Study compares the effect of three teaching methods on recall of facts, understanding of content, and application of principles. (Author)

After a description of the kinds of group experience which lead to greater personal awareness, the author concludes that through the humanistic approach to teaching in sex and sexuality, students are more able to relate their subjective responses regarding how they feel about themselves as sexual persons. (Author/BY)

Describes how the traditional activity of Show and Tell'' needs to be re-examined and re-directed so that it becomes a worthwhile and meaningful experience for young children. (Author/NL)

First part of article, a resource unit, suggests class activities and books to broaden students' of the stereotyped perception of women in our society and of feminist goals. Second section lists films for consciousness raising" available from various sources. (PD)

A fourth grade teacher describes a first-day lesson on self-concept, which enabled her and her students to learn more about each other. (SP)