A study skills course at the University of Minnesota Technical College Reading Center involves students by having them determine how study skills work for their situation, by using materials relevant to their academic classes, and by getting them to apply critical thinking to the learning process. Students conduct surveys, develop programs on good…

The subject of this booklet is cross-age helping. It begins with a discussion of what cross-age helping is and why it is effective. Cross-age helping is described as a program where children teach or help other children. The older children help the younger children learn what the younger children want to know, and the younger children help the…

This booklet on fishing is part of a series developed to encourage youth to pursue outdoor projects. Fish anatomy, equipment, casting techniques, knot and leader tying, hooks, fishing areas, cleaning and cooking fish, types of bait, lures, and regulations are discussed and illustrated. Suggested activities and field trips are listed. (MR)

One of a series prepared by the Hawaii Newspaper Agency, this teaching guide suggests ways of publishing a paper and discusses the skills the youngsters learn in the process. Emphasis is placed on developing the right setting, learning the history of the paper, and acquiring some background in writing. Such sections of the paper as the front page…

Shifts in student life styles and the phenomenon of empty dormitory rooms notwithstanding, many colleges and universities still face the problem of providing adequate housing for their students or helping them to find such housing. An interesting, if little publicized option--one to be exercised more by students than by institutions--is…

VISUALIZE is a course in visual language that can be used as a part of any course where communication and self-expression are among the goals--in religion, art, photography, filmmaking or social studies classes. This instructor manual gives a step-by-step approach to four two-hour seminars and three out-of-class projects. During the course…

On August 15, 1970 the Board of Regents adopted a resolution favoring incorporation of student publications so that the University of Maryland would no longer be the publisher, and recommended that a study be undertaken of the ways the separation could be implemented. In cooperation with the Department of Journalism, the Commission conducted a…

In the present document the effectiveness of a student team teaching technique is evaluated in comparison with the lecture method. The team teaching technique, previously used for upper division and graduate physics courses, was, for this study, used in a sophomore physics, electricity and magnetism course for engineers, mathematicians, chemists,…

The Independent Study course at Waubonsee Community College is offered for two semester hours of credit, accumulative to a maximum of four semester hours. Students not completing their independent study project in one semester may receive an extension for an additional semester. Analysis of the records of 9l Independent Study enrollees in the…

Discusses in cost/benefit terms an approach to teaching the sociology of religion which involves students in writing their religious autobiographies. Considers the nature of the assignment, level of methodological sophistication, difficulties in grading, and justification of the exercise. Concludes that the biographical approach has wide…

The helping students completed a training course dealing with topics of communication, sensitivity, and resources. They had definite objectives for both themselves and the program. In implementation, the students tutored, oriented, ran projects, helped counselors and the administrative staff, answered student questions, and provided various other…

Presents a brief description of community projects undertaken by graduate students of early childbood at West Georgia College, Carrolton, Ga. (CM)

This paper suggests some of the more important implications of classroom oral history projects based on the example of Foxfire. (Author)

Illustrates, in words and pictures, a method for capturing the writer's stream of consciousness with self and for melding it with photographic expression. (KS)

The article describes a ten-day simulation project in the correspondence unit of business communications. The students learn to recognize that the previous weeks of letter writing and punctuation practice are required duties in their future careers. At the end of the project the students are shown how they were rated on daily activities in their…