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McLeod, Rona Leach – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2011
"Diversity Awareness for K-6 Teachers: The Impact on Student Learning" is a resource guide for elementary teachers and college-level student teachers for teaching diversity awareness across the various areas of content. It contains many exciting activities teachers can use to enhance learning while making learning and teaching fun and exciting.…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Cultural Pluralism, Resource Materials, Elementary School Teachers
Langer, Judith A. – Teachers College Press, 2010
This book by Judith Langer--internationally known scholar in literacy learning--examines how people gain knowledge and become academically literate in the core subjects of English, mathematics, science, and social studies/history. Based on extensive research, it offers a new framework for conceptualizing knowledge development (rather than…
Descriptors: Literacy, High Stakes Tests, Creative Thinking, Learning Processes

Thomas, Sally; Oldfather, Penny – Reading Teacher, 1995
Shows how, through shared inquiry into literacy processes, both the teachers and students become learners. Describes the shared inquiry that took place in a classroom of 10- and 11-year olds in which teachers and students explored the meanings, purposes, and outcomes of their literacy curriculum. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Learning Processes

Stassen-McLaughlin, Marilyn – English Journal, 1991
Discusses collaborative learning and group work. Asserts that teachers often put pressure on a group so that students cannot communicate freely. Suggests changing evaluative markers from good and bad to most outrageous, most thought provoking, and most humorous, so that students' creative energy can flow. Includes transcripts of student…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Group Discussion, Learning Processes

Bryan, Jan – Reading Teacher, 1998
Offers a suggestion to extend the K-W-L instructional activity (which helps young learners develop appropriate questions for research and organizing what they know) by adding another column: the "where" column, which helps young learners focus on where specific information can be located. Offers an example drawn from work with nine-year…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Learning Processes, Questioning Techniques

Lloyd, Carol V. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 1998
Suggests that the brightest students in high school classes often suffer from a lack of engagement in the learning process. Reviews four theories of learning and reading. Describes five classroom practices that come from reading education and from units developed by secondary teachers that engage high-ability, low-performing students. Discusses…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, High Schools

Koehnecke, Dianne Swenson – Children's Literature in Education, 1995
Explores using Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences for folklore analysis. States that when listening to folktales, linguistic intelligence was used, as opposed to drawing pictures of the stories, which used spatial intelligence. Provides some ideas on how to bring folklore studies and the use of multiple intelligences into the classroom. (PA)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Cognitive Style, Folk Culture
Stokes-Eley, Stephanie – Communication Teacher, 2007
Student-led chapter presentations provide an excellent opportunity for instructors to evaluate a student's comprehension of the assigned chapter, as well as the student's ability to present and convey information in a public forum. Although several instructors realize the benefits of requiring students to complete chapter presentations either as…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Audiences, Experiential Learning, Learning Processes
Langrehr, John – 1988
Intended for practitioners, this book provides a valuable resource by offering teachers a volume of practical exercises for introducing and reinforcing a variety of fundamental thinking skills. Each exercise allows teachers and students in grades six through nine to focus on a selected thinking skill while serving as a stimulant for thoughtful…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Instructional Materials

Commander, Nannette Evans; Smith, Brenda D. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 1996
Describes learning log assignments for college students in a developmental studies program. Notes that the assignments call for students to reflect on specific cognitive aspects of learning giving them the opportunity to explore their own thinking, evaluate their own progress, and promote metacognitive awareness. Describes learning log assignments…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Course Descriptions, Developmental Studies Programs, Higher Education

Gage, Richard – English Journal, 1995
Suggests that accommodating students' learning styles will bring English classrooms alive. Discusses various learning styles. Describes five strategies for kinesthetic learners. (RS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cognitive Style, English Instruction, Individual Differences

Simeone, Wendy F. – English Journal, 1995
Describes several activities for the kinesthetic learner that were developed for a high-school World Literature curriculum. (RS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cognitive Style, English Instruction, High Schools

Rooks, Debra Baird – Reading Improvement, 1988
Describes a rationale which suggests that repetitious activities and motivational techniques should be integrated to produce successful achievement, enhanced perseverance, and positive self-concept. (RS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Learning Processes, Retention (Psychology)

Pearson, Jenny Watson; Santa, Carol M. – Journal of Reading, 1995
Describes how a high school English teacher helped her students learn about background knowledge, organization, metacognition, discussion, and writing by experimentally investigating their own learning. Notes that this approach helped students feel more ownership in their work and in their own knowledge about learning. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Research, English Instruction, Learning Processes

Ball, Wesley – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 1995
Notes that musical aptitude is not developed or nurtured through mere "exposure" to music but through active participation in singing and moving to music. Provides a rationale and suggestions for teaching singing in early childhood classrooms. (HTH)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Developmental Stages, Early Childhood Education, Learning Processes