Presents basic rules for conducting acting classes, including suggestions for format and presentation of class activities. (PA)

Discusses bringing local writers into the classroom--how to locate such writers and how to prepare for and organize the visit. (SR)

Discusses using index card improvisations to review story structure and characterization with eighth-grade students. Notes that students were quickly able to construct a story that their peers enjoyed. (RS)

Offers a practical demonstration of the conventions of children's literature. Discusses dragon lore and their parodies. Presents class activities related to such lore. (RS)

Describes the development and use of a cultural palette (a five-step method of visual analysis that can be used for cross-cultural visual communication) for a student graphic design project. (SR)

Classroom modifications used successfully by teachers of mainstreamed students with handicaps are described. General guidelines for dealing with daily assignments and activities are outlined, followed by specific guidelines concerning worksheets, textbook/end of chapter questions, study guides, notetaking, tests, and grading. (JDD)

Offers guidance on integrating peace studies into the secondary school geography curriculum. Defines negative and positive peace, welfare geography and radical geography, and positive peace through empowerment. Presents an education for peace learning activity focusing on land rights for Australia's aboriginal people. Suggests other appropriate…

Describes how a teacher used a computer lab to encourage her students to explore cultural issues and racial newspaper coverage that often probed highly sensitive and potentially explosive concerns. (PRA)

Explains how using the term "Family English" to identify nonstandard English with adults in developmental classes at the junior college level keeps communications open without negatively labeling their language and without producing hostility. (SR)

Maintains that teachers must encourage the lifetime reading habit at school in independent reading. Discusses several ways to do so, including cluttering up the classroom with reading materials, providing time for reading, and encouraging the reading habit throughout the year. (SR)

Offers five steps to prompt students' engagement with a short story and their enhanced understanding as well as enjoyment of writing. Lists short stories useful for this activity. (SR)

Strategies to help students transition to a new school year include emphasizing that everyone is in it together, discussing everyone's progress, visiting next year's classrooms, meeting students individually, discussing change, maintaining an open-door policy, reviewing the year's plan book, making memory books, and planning to visit old teachers.…

Challenges the concept of mathematical certainty and questions whether it is a useful concept for elementary and secondary mathematics curriculum. Encourages teachers to bring this issue into the classroom and ask students to think about it critically. (HB)

Describes how network television can be used to teach visual literacy in the composition classroom. Claims that television's "look" is pervasive and rhetorically powerful. Analyzes the program "Twin Peaks" as it relates to the medium's codes. Suggests how the program might be used to teach students about these codes. (HB)

Argues that a primary goal of foreign language instruction should be acquainting students with foreign culture. Discusses how language teachers might facilitate student encounters with foreign cultures. Presents an eight-step process for developing reading skills in a foreign language. (HB)