Without careful attention to learning-disabled students' strengths and weaknesses, learning styles, language processing abilities, and reading levels, these students can fail to master content and essential knowledge about the Civil War and other subjects. Alternative approaches include providing in-class readings for group discussion and outside…

Discusses the interpretation of weather for children and shares program ideas to interpret the water cycle, thunderstorms (including fear of thunderstorms), and rainbows (including the colors of the rainbow). (MKR)

Presents activities designed to help students bridge the gap between the graphical representation of a function and a verbal description. Includes a number of nonstandard graphs and reproducible student worksheets. (MKR)

Offers a detailed lesson plan for a computer-equipped writing class, featuring the Daedalus Interchange program and a set of goals and activities for teaching synthesis, generalization, and the value of multiple "voices." (SR)

Discusses a teacher's perspective on the whole language approach to reading instruction, based on her observations of Australian students. Examines the theoretical frameworks, the materials used for instruction, the time allotted for instruction, the role of the teacher, the lesson format, and student motivation. (PRA)

Presents lesson plan to be used after introductory lessons on realizing similarities and differences in people. Plan was designed after request from teacher to help deal with children who were putting down others because their physical characteristics were "different." Lesson demonstrates to children that being different is desirable and that…

Contains excerpts from holistic, second grade drama lessons based on a motif common to young children--"A Journey from Home to Confront a Monster." Asserts that this motif can be examined from a fantasy viewpoint with as much power and relevance as from a reality base. Encourages working with others to overcome "monsters" of…

Describes step-by-step procedures for taking apart a disk drive on an Apple microcomputer for a student demonstration. Lesson preparation is discussed, the use of small groups of students is recommended, and suggestions for teaching the lesson are given. (LRW)

Discusses how a secondary school English teacher focuses not on the carefully plotted beginnings and endings of lessons but the middle moments, which surrender first and last things to concentrate on expressions of creative power. (RS)

Examines what is happening in teacher education regarding teaching instructional planning processes, sharing one novice teacher's experiences with instructional planning in the context of secondary-level social-studies student teaching. The story illustrates the complexities involved as student teachers plan for classroom instruction. Four…

Discussion of how student teachers build concrete concepts and defined concepts in telecommunication environments focuses on a study that used the AskERIC database to demonstrate the role of intellectual skills in developing conceptualizations, to compare and contrast elements of a lesson plan, and to define the role of telecommunication in…

Summarizes the victories and hardships in the life of Charles White, an African-American artist who overcame racism in a time embedded with it. Provides a copy of White's drawing "Children Games # 1" along with six lesson plans for grades ranging from 2 through 12. Includes subjects such as visual arts and social studies. (CMK)

Describes a doctoral assignment that uses a genogram format to tract academic lineage and uncover historical themes that continue to influence the student's professional development. Explains how this method can be modified for use with master's level students. Discusses how time consuming the genogram can be and suggests ways faculty can shorten…

Describes The Learning Space, a Seattle-based organization that provides support for classroom teachers by providing a means of communicating and collaborating with other teachers via the World Wide Web. Discusses the Web site that includes classroom lessons and considers growth of the organization to expand to other states. (LRW)

The implications for physical education of the trend toward block scheduling at the middle and high school levels are discussed. Physical educators are urged to see block scheduling as an opportunity. Suggestions for implementing the block schedule include a sample schedule for a 90-minute physical education class. Positive results of block…