The language classroom activities described include work with TV programs (interviews, cooking demonstrations, scenes without soundtrack); exercises with passe compose and passe simple verb tenses; descriptions of available French cassette programs; and use of texts on scientific subjects to build reading for meaning. (CNP)

Presents simple recycling activities for grades K-12 divided by class level and subject matter to enable easy curriculum integration. (MCO)

Overviews the current state of writing instruction in elementary and secondary schools. Presents specific examples from real classrooms of misguided instruction and ill-advised assignments. Suggests specific ways of improving classroom instructions of writing at all levels in the future. (HB)

Presents a number of class activities and methods for the writing classroom that center on how students experience violence and what they think about it. Shows how the teacher can help students be heard, help them identify forms of violence, and personalize violence. Leads to asking students to design a plan of action to undercut violence. (HB)

Describes and provides a worksheet for a class activity in which student groups conceptualize, plan, and produce a 30-second television commercial for a topic of their own choosing. (HB)

Provides a framework for examining classroom practice to see how technology is used to support democratic participation in Canadian education. Six examples are given of the use of computers in elementary and secondary schools that promote fuller participation; and information technology, democracy, and education are discussed. (nine references)…

Discusses how to create a profile of students' abilities to apply document strategies (locate, cycle, and integrate strategies). (SR)

Argues for journalism education that supports a pedagogy advocated by feminist and critical scholars who resist subservience to economically determined control. Offers suggestions for classroom strategies that encourage students to be independent, intelligent, and critical thinkers. (SR)

The article describes how to use a word processing program and add-on story starters for different genres to enhance elementary students' creative writing skills. Teachers input story starters, then students select a genre and add on a story version in that genre. Students can also develop their own story starters. (SM)

Presents descriptions of the most commonly taught thinking skills and information on how to present, model, and practice those skills in class. The guide also includes a quiz designed to help the teacher take advantage of everyday opportunities to promote thinking skills, and 10 critical thinking skills strategies. (GLR)

Examines the reasons why a child's writing gets bogged down and discusses ways in which the child can be gently encouraged to take writing risks. Also included are descriptions of writing exercises designed to stretch student creativity. (GLR)

Describes the "shrinklit," a rhyming summary of a literary work which serves as an alternative to student book reporting. Suggests that shrinklits are enjoyable because they contain relatively sophisticated humor and are easy for secondary students to mimic. Provides examples of shrinklits written by students. (SG)

Extends a previous article which describes an assignment (integrating many concepts taught in a technical writing course) in which students write an employee handbook. Describes the employment-at-will doctrine and discusses some recent legal cases surrounding employee handbooks. Offers exercises on defining audience, classifying and partitioning,…

One college math anxiety reduction clinic uses various techniques to change student attitudes toward math, including publicity and consciousness raising about the problem, having students write their "math autobiographies," group discussion and support, a divided-page exercise for recording feelings of anxiety, and assertiveness training for math…

Presents math, language arts and movement, and arts and crafts activities (poetry, crafts, artwork, and a song) for kindergarteners and other young students. The article features learning centers that explore the past, the present, and the future using dinosaur, caterpillar, and community helper projects. (SM)