Free schools are shown in this article to have certain advantages over straight" public schools. They are far more radical and have greater student voice and power. (MR)

Guides for school papers and administrators to keep the school paper relevant. (Author)

A fictional account of the grading practices of a high school faculty. (MF)

Use of direct experiences for children to foster learning and language development is encouraged. Classroom materials and study trips are suggested. (DR)

Description of an experience-oriented methods course in the biological sciences for prospective teachers at Syracuse University. Activities include observing and evaluating teaching experiences, designing biology laboratory experiments, developing test items and learning specific biological techniques. Bibliography. (LC)

Presents a review of creativity principles, a brief discussion of class activities (brainstorming, surrogating, questioning, analyzing, etc.), a short description of nine audiovisual aids with several ordering sources, and a bibliography. (PD)

The purposes of elementary school career education for mildly handicapped students, and specific learning activities and materials, are discussed. Elementary level career education components are identified as the development of social skills, self-understanding, communication and computation abilities, and the exploration of a variety of careers.…

This article offers teachers tips about how to get off to a good start when the new school year begins. Suggestions are given for setting up initial activities, making door signs that help students practice reading, starting group stories, scheduling time, and getting to know students. (PP)

A list of subjects and sources of pictures for a classroom "picture bank" is suggested. Tips are given for the use and conservation of pictures, and a classification scheme and ideas for language and civilization instruction are included. (MSE)

Seven situations are suggested for role playing exercises, with facial and physical movement emphasized as well as oral skill development. Possibilities for improvisation, props, variations, and linguistic objectives are outlined for each situation. (MSE)

Describes how having students draw both their own and a literary character's reality not only introduces students, quite painlessly and concretely, to a large number of literary terms, but also suggests that literature appreciation demands an imaginative extension into the life of another. (MM)

Brief essays discuss (1) a teacher's discovery of the difficulty of the writing process, (2) various methods of writing instruction that are still only a part of the whole, (3) the difference between children's writing at home and at school, (4) a method for teaching poetry, and (5) a fifth-grade book writing project for first-grade students. (HTH)

Three brief articles present ideas for instructional materials and techniques. One idea examines word use in advertising, especially homophones. A second suggests a game to identify and label parts of the Great Pyramid. The third provides a number of mathematical games and exercises in French. (MSE)

Many unexplored possibilities remain for comprehensive and systematic use of popular song in the foreign language classroom. The song is both a pedagogical tool (for listening comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, conversation, composition, culture, and history) and a subject for literary study. (Author/MSE)

Details an approach which involves taking students through the problems of film production while teaching (1) theory; (2) actual tools of production; and (3) practical methods of organizing work. Contends that precise, challenging, technical exercises performed in an interactive social framework maximize skill development. (PD)