Written for students, professionals with limited experience, and professionals who encounter lighting difficulties, this book encourages sensitivity to light in its myriad manifestations: it offers advice in creating memorable images for video, film, and stills through lighting. Chapters in the book are: (1) "Lights of Passage: Basic Theory and…

Defining cooperative learning (CL) as a collection of concepts and techniques for enhancing the value of student-student interaction, this paper describes a workshop presenting key CL concepts. It describes two CL techniques that can be used in the teaching of reading and highlights connections between CL concepts and these two techniques. The…

This teaching guide packet is designed to accompany a 3-part television series, "Poetry Heaven," which captures many of the brightest and most memorable moments of the 1996 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. The series presented in the packet features 18 poets whose personalities, voices, and points of view reflect the power and…

These two teaching guides, one for the novel "Summer Song," (appropriate for grades 5 through 8) and one for the novel "Libby Bloom" (appropriate for grades 3 through 6) are designed to help teachers use these children's books in interdisciplinary classroom settings. The "Summer Song" guide offers thematic links on…

Like Amy Benjamin's other books, this one is easy to read and simple to implement. It demonstrates that you can manage the complexities of differentiated instruction n and save time--by using technology as you teach. It showcases classroom-tested activities and strategies which are easy to apply in your own classroom.

The author discusses the use of the open-ended discussion as a teaching strategy. The intended outcomes for students are listed along with a brief delineation of the teacher's role, including focus setting, structuring, accepting, and clarifying. (RP)

Presents three a three step technique for drama reading in the classroom: read the play silently, read the play orally, and read the play orally, acting it out with the script in hand. (RB)

Presents a rationale for teaching creative dramatics, including objectives, techniques, and activities. (RB)

This is a description of the TWC (Teachers and Writers Collaborative) workshops and projects which send poets (such as Kenneth Koch), actors, dancers and artists into the classroom. (JA)

Discusses proper procedures and mechanics for carrying out individualized instruction in the elementary classroom which will provide the children with a new view of their individual competencies. (RB)

Article contains class activities based on the entire consumer economics series. (GB)

Describes a class project where children found ways to adapt to routines, situations, and events of a real community to a simulated society in the classroom. (GB)

Describes several well documented cases of Extra Sensory Perception (ESP), and discusses ways in which ESP experiments can be conducted in the science classroom to investigate telepathy, pyschokinesis, and clairvoyance. (JR)

The teaching procedures and class activities used in a consumer economics and law course at Taft High School, Los Angeles, California, are briefly discussed. The relevance of consumer education is commented on. A bibliography of resource materials is provided. (RM)

An introductory lesson on minority rights utilizes simple case studies based on decision-making experiences common to junior and senior high school students. (KM)