Suggests that the business teacher develop interaction with local businesses to supplement and reinforce classroom activities, particularly the study of local office systems. Teaching suggestions are included along with advantages of cooperating with local businesses, e.g., keeping teachers abreast of innovations and changes in the business world…

Constructing a miniature city motivates students to participate in a variety of learning experiences. (RL)

Provides excerpts from scripts and students' self-reports on their participation in a class project that taught communication skills through playwriting and performing. (RL)

Several foreign language classroom activities that either allow for students' individual differences or aim to give value to students' personal identities are described. (MSE)

One approach to foreign language literature appreciation focuses on demystifying literature and encouraging and maintaining active student motivation and interest in the creative process. The literature lesson is divided and presented in four parts: directed observation; active analysis by discussion groups; re-creation of characters; and creative…

Describes the Guidance Shorts program which was developed to meet the needs of children in a specific school setting. Discusses implementation of the weekly classroom activities and presents a sample Guidance Short lesson. (ABB)

Teachers can help rechannel student anxieties by identifying areas of anxiety and then using such activities as pictorial displays to initiate conversations, "dialogue" notebooks (unrestricted, uncorrected writing on topics of students' choice), and classroom speakers (e.g., doctors) who can address topics which cause anxiety in…

Games for use in the second-language classroom are suggested, including variations on tic-tac-toe and snakes and ladders, races, board games based on American television programs, math activities, and a classroom mystery. (MSE)

This primary unit uses rainbows to provide young children inspiration for learning in the areas of language arts, science, art, social studies, and math. (MT)

Presents an exercise, for use in college-level economic geography courses, which teaches the concept of nodal and network accessibility with an application to manufacturing locations. Intended to guide students to think spatially and to generalize from numeric data, this out-of-class activity teaches students to discover results, to do simple…

Describes an English language course for four- and five-year-old Italian children in a preschool in Padua, Italy. Twice weekly, during 40-minute periods, children participate in games and activities designed to teach them names of objects in the classroom, colors, numbers, animals, family members, clothing, food, body parts, and possessives. (CFM)

Describes the efforts of an inner-city elementary school teacher to create a functionally literate environment in the classroom by linking written language to classroom routines, giving children many opportunities to write and receive written communication, and encouraging group learning. Explains the teacher's role in creating a print-rich…

Suggests clustering can help students of any ability level draw upon latent images and ideas, generate more original sentences, and experiment with metaphor and simile. (MS)

Reviews the growing literature on the forecasting of elections, providing an example in the form of 1988 congressional election predictions. Briefly discusses the history of election outcome prediction and outlines two scientific forecasting models which, the authors state, are appropriate for use in the classroom. (GEA)