Describes how one eighth-grade teacher, disturbed by students' ignorance of the variety of poetry available to them, developed a poetry anthology assignment, in which students immersed themselves in poetry for three weeks, each one choosing and creating a poetry anthology comprised of 20 poems. Notes students' enthusiasm for the project and pride…

Describes a communication audit project used in a graduate-level management communication course. Reviews literature concerning communication audits, explains why and how an audit project is used in the author's classes, and describes specific audit-related assignments. Concludes that, although a challenging assignment, the audit is worthwhile.…

Describes how the case method can be used in business communication classes to help students develop crucial abilities. Notes that it is most productive when students are actively involved in individual analysis, group and class discussions, and group report writing. Defines criteria for selecting a case, and outlines a step-by-step approach to…

Offers a plan for using a modified reading/study guide, called the 3-Level Reading Guide, in mathematics class to help students comprehend and solve word problems. Suggests that the guide can help students become independent problem solvers. (SR)

Opines that depth of characterization is most important for a book to be considered a classic. Discusses "The Human Comedy" and "The Cat Ate My Gymsuit" and why they resonate with readers. Provides 10 questions for stimulating student response to these novels. (PA)

Describes methods of teaching summarizing skills to seventh graders. Notes that the English teachers at the middle school were quite surprised that their students did not know how to summarize effectively. (RS)

Explores the meaning of honest numbers and their relationship to arbitrarily chosen nonnegative integers. Promotes the pursuit of honest numbers in various languages. Argues that honest numbers afford a rich context in which students can capitalize on their familiarity with languages, and information about diverse cultures can be shared among…

Presents the classroom activity of finding a Hamiltonian circuit that helps students understand the properties of geometric shapes and symmetry. (ASK)

Discusses how students fail to recognize the underlying equivalence when the same set of points is represented by a graph or an equation or a table. Presents activities in which more than one form of representations of the same information are included. (ASK)

Presents an assignment given to students to produce a report on perfect numbers and their properties. Summarizes the history of perfect numbers and their features. Recommends spreadsheet, theoretical, and programming activities on perfect numbers. (ASK)

Describes having ninth-grade English students work on independent studies units for the final six weeks of class, in which students choose, plan, and schedule their topic, assignments, and evaluation. Describes implementation, and notes pitfalls and how to avoid them. (SR)

Presents a dialog among three English teachers concerning teaching performance poetry to ninth graders. (RS)

Focuses on the current enchantment of educators and students with audiovisual materials and emphasizes that this genre is destined to have a permanent place in modern education. The article points out the good qualities of this genre: variety, utility, and pleasure. (Author/CK)

Describes a way students can get to know their textbook, not feel threatened by it, and get to know its many study aids by approaching the text as they would a new class member and by generating and then answering a list of questions about the textbook. (SR)

Describes a six-month project in a second grade classroom in which students wrote descriptive sentences to accompany the pictures in wordless picture books. Describes how this was done first as a whole class, then with partners, and finally individually. Notes that each story created in this fashion was read to someone. (SR)