Touts the benefits of field trips, noting that exposing students to new environments increases the amount they learn. Places such as zoos, aquariums, and museums are appropriate contexts for topics being studied, increasing the likelihood of learning. Advance preparation for the trip is crucial, and how the trip is designed is critical to what…

Discusses Bloom's Taxonomy of Cognitive Skills and presents a table that outlines and defines its six skill levels. Introduces articles in this journal describing assignments for business communications which involve the these higher-order thinking skills. (SR)

Describes helping business students prepare for job interviews and other business events by learning and practicing business etiquette at a dinner set up by business-communication instructors and the university food service. (SR)

Suggests 10 classroom activities that use music to teach reading, writing, and content materials to primary children. (RS)

Provides fun ideas for filling in time gaps in the English-as-a-foreign language classroom. (Author/VWL)

Describes the Integrative Business Seminar in the College of Business Administration at Northeast Louisiana University in which the principal courses in business communication, management, marketing, and finance as well as a segment in problem solving, are taught as one 15-credit hour block in which subject areas are treated as an integrated…

Argues for using a variety of dictionaries in the second-language classroom, identifies some criteria to consider when selecting a dictionary, and suggests activities that teachers may use in their second-language classes. (Author/VWL)

Suggests guidelines, taken from adult reading groups, for teachers to use when establishing reading club groups in the classroom which include discussing the purpose for reading clubs, demonstrating how to choose a book to read, and establishing rules for the reading club groups. (NH)

Argues that literature provides a vehicle for inquiry-based teaching that can encourage reflective thinking and help students to learn to make informed decisions by carefully thinking through ill-structured, realistic dilemmas that have no right or wrong answer. Describes strategies that promote carefully structured investigation of such dilemmas,…

Discusses the author's experience of using a popular movie, portraying a counseling relationship, as a teaching tool. Documents the students' improved comprehension and application of course concepts from classroom discussions generated by the film. Improved rapport between teacher and students was also noted. (Author/JDM)

Discusses six books written for professional educators, discussing them in two groups; those that tell educators about a particular type of children's literature, and books that show how to engage children in literature study. (SR)

Outlines the Associated Press' revised guidelines regarding the use of courtesy titles, making them uniform for men and women. Offers an editing exercise for students to practice the new guidelines. (SR)

Suggests that teachers can help students to use the Internet wisely by using what they already know as reading teachers: help them to read with a purpose. Notes that students should have a purpose for their searches of the Internet. Lists "plusses" for teachers and learners (as well as cautions) regarding using the Internet in the…

Describes how the author devised a simple table that allows him not only to monitor his first-grade class's spelling development but also to use the information from the table to plan spelling instruction. (SR)

Describes radio as a medium with a special power of intimacy, and notes its different eras. Describes briefly eight different classroom assignments using the radio, which can be used as stand-alone exercises, as enrichment for a variety of fields of study, or as a major unit of study on radio. (SR)