When designing lessons to meet the needs of our increasingly diverse population of students, educators need to rethink planning and structuring lessons so that all students achieve better results. Therefore, teacher preparation programmes need to prepare pre-service teachers accordingly. Within this paper, a new lesson planning template is…

The Earthquake Machine (EML), a mechanical model of stick-slip fault systems, can increase student engagement and facilitate opportunities to participate in the scientific process. This article introduces the EML model and an activity that challenges ninth-grade students' misconceptions about earthquakes. The activity emphasizes the role of models…

Acquisition of the host country's language is a basic requirement for the occupational and social inclusion of immigrants. It has been widely acknowledged that both the teaching and the learning of a second language are substantially improved by the communicative approach. A technique employed by the latter is that of role-play. This technique…

SOME CLASSROOM APPLICATIONS OF THE TAPE RECORDER ARE DISCUSSED, WITH SECTIONS ON THE CARE, USE, AND SELECTION OF TAPE RECORDING EQUIPMENT ACCESSORIES. THIS DOCUMENT IS AVAILABLE FROM WOLLENSAK-3M COMPANY ATTENTION--CREATIVE TEACHING WITH TAPE, 2501 HUDSON ROAD, ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA 55119. (MS)

This concluding volume of a five-volume project consists of a case study which is designed to elicit from the teacher a performance based on the experience gained (from the previous volumes) in writing prescriptions. The teacher is furnished with data on a student designated John which include a placement profile, placement test, unit record test,…

This research project studied the effects of an experimental teacher training program designed to help teachers nurture creativity in their pupils during the initial year of a city school desegregation plan. A pretest-posttest control group design was employed. One-half of the teachers participated in an experimental in-service program throughout…

This summary is a condensation of a 119-page major research study. The project studied the effects of an experimental teacher training program designed to help teachers nurture creativity in their pupils during the initial year of a city school desegregation plan. A pretest-posttest control group design was employed. One-half of the teachers…

Explains how Cherry Creek (Colorado) schools effectively used Chapter 2 funds provided thorugh the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act. Because these monies must be spent to supplement, not supplant, a school system's activities, the district devised two kinds of grants (minigrants and "skunk-works" grants) that fulfill Chapter 2…

Teacher poses as visiting celebrity and is interviewed by her 6th Grade Language Arts Class as the beginning of a feature news story writing assignment. (GB)

Describes how to grow a pineapple in a classroom and at the same time use the process for the teaching of history, social studies, and a little chemistry. (RB)

Paper presented at the third meeting of the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, April 15-17, 1971, in Detroit, Michigan. (DS)

The use of tapes and tape recorders in teaching is described. (DB)