Presents 10 innovative video-centered activities that have been successfully used by teachers and at-risk students. (SR)

Presents a collection of holiday-related winter activities for elementary students. November activities celebrate the Great American Smokeout, National Children's Book Week, National Geography Awareness Week, and Thanksgiving. December activities celebrate Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and the coming of snow. Hands-on activities include cooking,…

Argues that focusing on film adaptations helps students view literature from an interdisciplinary perspective and gain insight into narrative technique. (PRA)

Describes the use of the W. D. Snodgrass' poem "The Campus on the Hill" and the last segment of James Burke's BBC television production "The Day the Universe Changed" in a public relations class to facilitate the development of critical thinking skills and to provide a context within which students examine their understanding of public relations.…

Examines the nature of imagination and creativity in the acting process. Argues that successful acting is the ability to extend the imagination into the creative act of developing a role and building a character. Discusses specific ways a theater educator inspires creativity in actors. (RS)

Considers the new organic intellectual as rhetoric teacher, working out the ways in which this teacher is uniquely placed to encourage the counter-hegemonic efforts to subordinate groups. Offers concrete classroom activities as well as theoretical elaboration of their genesis. (RS)

This template for use in managing student team assignments includes activities for an introduction to teamwork, development of team member expectations, and preparation of an assessment instrument with team member input. (SK)

Identifies four postmodern themes: complicated identities, the demise of the individual as expert, constraints on individual actions, and postmodern organizations as dream and nightmare. Outlines management-class exercises that illustrate ambiguities and paradoxes in the themes. (SK)

Describes working out an exercise in creating a character using objects bought at a rummage sale. States that the high school students used the objects creatively as a final class project. (PA)

Describes how to set up a classroom climate that encourages children to express their ideas openly. (Author/CCM))

While projects and activities have a legitimate place in the classroom, activities enthusiasts often substitute ersatz activity and shallow content for hard, serious work of the mind. Successful projects and activities require more planning, care, and work from teachers than standard lessons. No substitute exists for the foundations of education,…

Children now play more solitary games, perhaps missing benefits of traditional games such as jacks, marbles, and dominoes. Such games offer children of all backgrounds the opportunity to consolidate knowledge and skills, develop a more orderly way of thinking, and establish themselves with peers. By making these games available in classrooms,…

Argues that journalism advisers need to help student journalists cultivate an informed journalistic conscience as well as some procedures in order to justify their decisions. Discusses examples that can help students understand and apply issues in journalism ethics of: law versus ethics; informed journalistic conscience; and justification…

Presents overview of classroom rule establishment and implementation within a proactive management strategy. Characteristics of classroom rules (wording, means of presentation) are included, and the intended nature and function of rules are discussed. Concludes rules do not work in isolation and should be used in conjunction with a classroom…

Presents five brief descriptions from two-year college teachers of writing activities that they have found to work well in their classrooms. (SR)