Reviews "Association for Specialists in Group Work" training standards and describes suggestions for group work training to meet these standards, including in-class activities, internship experiences, and continuing education. (KW)

Describes a two-week unit about Benjamin Franklin, and discusses what happens when 9- and 10-year olds use their own language and life experiences to learn new content. (SR)

Discusses alternative assessment in the language classroom, provides examples of seven cooperative assessment activities: correcting individual quizzes and homework, observing students at work, interviews, peer composition, oral presentations, group projects, and group processing. (Author/VWL)

Discusses reasons for teaching international business ethics and suggests several classroom applications. (Author/VWL)

Describes a classroom game that demonstrates to students that equilibria can occur naturally in order to encourage students to take unreasonable equilibria more seriously. Discusses the game, how to organize it in the classroom for a game theory course, and the results. (CMK)

Describes how the author uses Franz Kafka's "A Little Fable" with his mainstream class of high school juniors. Considers how it is essential to show students how to stop reading when they don't understand something--to go back and reread it and begin making sense of it. Uses writing lists, student opinions, and classroom discussion. (SG)

Focuses on an adapted version of the classic deviance exercise used in a criminology course taught from 1992 to 2000. Describes how the exercise typically worked, but also discusses a time when the exercise went wrong. Addresses what lessons were learned from that experience. (CMK)

Elicits end-of-term written evaluations of debate-like activities in a 70-student class on rhetorical traditions. Indicates that, while a few students expressed discomfort with the competitiveness of the activities, most were laudatory. Shows the value of debate-across-the-curriculum for promoting small group communication and for fostering…

Notes that through trial and error, one of the most effective activities the author and her first grade gifted reading students discovered was an Internet Inquiry method. Concludes that with the rapidly changing world, children's literacy futures will include new technology. Considers how the new technologies should support and not replace…

Contends that providing vocabulary instruction is one of the most significant ways in which teachers can improve students' reading and listening comprehension. Describes a 16-week intervention in which the comprehension of middle and high school students reading below grade level was improved significantly by instruction that developed their…

Describes an interactive in-class learning activity where students learn about social movement theories. Provides background information about the exercise; discusses the process of preparing and implementing the assignment; and explores the student responses. Includes an appendix and references. (CMK)

Highlights a webquest, or an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the Internet. Highlights the structure of a webquest, discusses producing a webquest, and provides sample webquests. (Author/VWL)

Studies the students in the author's classroom to search for the personal connections to the stories they read. Hopes to discover how students' connections revealed themselves to show story's importance in their developing lives. Concludes that students do connect with stories. Suggests stories bond students with one another in a way they might…

Presents an example illustrating how teachers can create reading and writing activities that emphasize how words work through grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and usage. Describes a workshop that highlights a single punctuation mark: the semicolon. Notes that the semicolon defies rigid rules for use and is therefore ideally suited for instruction…

Presents a point, counterpoint strategy which helps students build a repertoire of interpretive strategies that can be enlisted when dealing with complex short stories. Notes that the key to the strategy is that students begin with their personal responses and move toward more public and generalized interpretations. (RS)