A faculty member's suggestions for maximizing the educational value and pleasure of field trips to the theater are presented, based on his experience teaching a required reading and writing course in an adult education program. (MSE)

A series of classroom microcomputer-assisted games based on an approach to understanding through mythological symbolism is described and discussed. (MSE)

Surveyed broadcasting departments to determine the kinds of on-air training they provide students. Found that 68 (or 48 percent) of the responding institutions broadcast or cablecast a student-run television news program. (PD)

Explains how Venn diagrams can be used to teach children about animals. Provides examples of four types of diagrams and suggests how activities can be designed to address topics as endangered, domestic, and wild animals. (ML)

High school students analyze real-life case studies, taken from the files of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, to learn about the effects of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination with regard to native people in Canada. (RM)

Describes how a teacher with little background in science helped her students write puppet plays as part of their learning about the science of rainbows. (FL)

Describes the adult's primary responsibility in facilitating toddler play as being a supportive participant. Includes guidelines for supporting play and planning play activities. (AS)

Describes a reporting exercise that yields a publishable story from a company's annual report. (HTH)

Describes a method for helping students see the importance of a topic sentence to achieve unity in written paragraphs. Students note all red items in the classroom. Parallels are then drawn between the way concentrating on red limits notice of other details and the way topic sentences limit and focus the details in a paragraph. (HTH)

Proposes guidelines for low cost or no cost field trips, and discusses trip activities. Also gives ideas for incorporating lessons in reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills into trip activities. (EKN)

The limitations of the particular communicative situation in the foreign language classroom, in which students spend much of their time silent while the teacher speaks, need to be recognized before applying new teaching techniques. The profession must find new ways to promote the need, the desire, and the pleasure of communicating. (MSE)

Offers eleven examples of games for the French class which can be conducted without special materials. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Keeping the pupils' interest up throughout the year in a compulsory language class is a major problem and therefore, language-teaching games are very important. Some new suggestions for games to be used in the elementary school are: (1) The Parrot; (2) The Robot; (3) Ping-Pong; and (4) Telephone. Card games such as Happy Families can be played…

Discusses the role of games in the French class, and gives examples of some possible approaches. (Text is in French.) (AM)

A classroom game is described in which students are asked to guess the rule relating a series of three given numbers. (DT)