The booklet describes approaches to teaching a large group of severely developmentally disabled students. The book begins with a review of the circle time format intended to foster motivation through a sense of playfulness, novel items, and opportunities for student participation and response. A theme approach to planning is advocated, and…

Through this article, the significance of motivation, whether extrinsic or intrinsic in the teaching and learning process is focused. Various simple methods to enhance motivation among students are highlighted in an effort towards quality teaching and inculcating a love for learning.

An activity providing practice with whole number addition and subtraction, as well as enlarging on the idea of numeration systems, is described. (DT)

Discusses the use of small-group inquiry techniques and discovery exercises within the traditional lecture setting to teach chemistry to large nonscience classes. Included are descriptions of classroom activities, student assignments, and program effectiveness. (CC)

Addressed to the health occupations education teacher, this guide is intended to provide appropriate information, viewpoints, and attitudes regarding the metric system and to make suggestions regarding presentation of the material in the classroom. An introductory section on teaching suggestions emphasizes the need for a "think metric" approach…

Addressed to the business education teacher, this guide is intended to provide appropriate information, viewpoints, and attitudes regarding the metric system and to make suggestions regarding presentation of the material in the classroom. An introductory section on teaching suggestions emphasizes the need for a "think metric" approach made up of…

On the premise that the aim of high school and college English teachers is to intensify students' powers of thinking and feeling and to keep themselves alive while doing so, this paper suggests numerous imaginative activities for use in the classroom. The activities include a Victorian panel discussion, a presentation of early English ballads,…

Describes ways to vary instructional activities in the French language classroom so as to emphasize the communicative function of language. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Intended for use with students at all grade levels, this booklet contains activities for incorporating newspaper study into the classroom. The first section of the booklet contains a week-long teaching unit designed to familiarize students with the format and style of newspapers. The remaining sections of the booklet contain activities designed to…

The manual presents activities designed to allow individuals to experience the sensations, feelings, attitudes, limitations, and perspectives of handicapped persons. The first section details aspects of workshop planning, including a review of experiential learning theory; information on group structure, group size, physical setting, workshop…

The author discusses complexity, environmental education, and learning strategies. Using the concept of time, complexity is divided into two main types: (1) substantive and (2) structural. The author asserts that there exists a principle of tradeoff between these two types where one of the types can be increased while the other is decreased until…

Four activities are suggested to develop student appreciation for the relationships between listening and the other language arts. The activities are designed to improve on present classroom instruction, which usually provides little time for formal oral language instruction. Each activity begins with some aspect of oral language training and…

This discussion of games--particularly computerized games--and their potential in schools addresses several topics: what games are, types of games (free-form, rigid-form, or open-form) and their educational applications, the role of games in learning, student participation in adapting existing games for computer presentation, and special classroom…

As part of the "Educating Gifted and Talented Students" series, the booklet offers the teacher guidelines for facilitating communication abilities in gifted children. Following an introduction, a first chapter lists characteristics of students gifted in speech communication and leadership. The essence of giftedness in speech communication and…