A physical education teacher's approach to orchestrating individual and group learning is described. Cognitive and affective learning are stressed in addition to physical skill development. Creative use of learning resources--milk cartons, "direction boxes," and newspapers--is illustrated. (PP)

Diekhoff argues that you must teach trainees how to learn. He recommends pretraining in learning strategies, including self-pacing, concentration, and reading comprehension. (CT)

Describes an integrated, holistic approach to vocabulary development. (AEA)

Recommends an approach to basic skills instruction which takes poetry as its focus to study grammar, style, and ideas. Reports three benefits: poetry gives students something significant to read, utilizes professionals' grammar and usage to teach these areas, and generates readable topics for writing. Provides two typical assignments. (DMM)

Describes a social studies unit for teaching high school students about energy. Entitled "Energy Tradeoffs in the Marketplace," the unit focuses on economic aspects of energy, economic-related educational games, social decision making with regard to energy, and social studies skill development. (DB)

Describes two classroom experiences which can be useful to high school social studies classroom teachers as they teach students about global interdependence. Lessons involve energy production and use, and relatinships between energy and environmental issues. Students are involved in group discussion, map work, reading newspapers, and analyzing…

Offers tips to teachers on presenting the concept of due process in the classroom. Activities involve students in a variety of activities, including recognition and definition exercises, case studies, legislative drafting, and a mock administrative hearing. (DB)

Suggests techniques for helping students to recognize emotional content in books or television programs and to understand how authors use emotion as a story device. (Author/SJL)

Although traditional instructional methods and textbooks mitigate against it, investigation can be a viable alternative strategy in the geometry classroom. Many theorems in geometry, such as Euclidean space, lend themselves easily to student experimentation. (Author/SJL)

Describes a program of activities for increasing children's skill with oral language, including creative storytelling, questioning, and role exchange. (HTH)

The author recommends allowing elementary students to use pocket calculators, so that they may concentrate on the sense of a math problem without getting bogged down in computation. He presents calculator activities on place value, estimation, and arithmetic operations, suitable for grades 1-6. (SJL)

Reponses to four letters from parents and a teacher of gifted children, relating to truancy in a gifted teenager; development of a regional gifted program; strategies appropriate for a primary gifted program; and instructional activities for a parent to use with her preschool age gifted child. (SBH)

A study was undertaken to determine whether five blind children could learn to use a spatial sensor to enhance their interaction with the environment. The results of the study, in which the teaching occurred in game format, was that four of the Ss were very quickly able to use the sensor. (PHR)

Described is an activity designed to maintain a good working environment during the difficult last week and first week of school. It is a letter-writing unit that has graduating eighth graders recall their feelings about junior high school for the fall's incoming seventh graders. (KC)

Teaching strategies to involve students in discovering practical applications of the First Amendment are described. Activities include opinion surveys, court simulation, and role playing. (KC)