Although many teachers hold generally positive views of using disability literature with children to support the development of more inclusive communities and schools (Beneke & Cheatham, 2020), little is known about how teachers work with families and address concerns families may have about using such literature. What follows are three…

In October 2014, an interesting new app became freely available in the Apple Store®. It is called PhotoMath®: (1) Hold a phone or tablet up to a mathematics problem in a textbook; (2) The app shows the answer to the problem; and (3) Select Steps to see the step-by-step process for getting from the problem to the solution. The app works for simple…

Reviews various approaches to critical response/evaluation, including New Criticism and belletrism, and discusses the relationship between grading and responding. Asserts that a teacher's response to students' written efforts offers the student a repertoire of critical values and a model of critical reading. (MM)

Discusses the importance of maintaining a dialog between teachers and students about each writing assignment. Explores ways of keeping the dialog going, even after an assignment has been graded. (JAD)

Describes how having students evaluate their teacher's writing can develop the teacher's sensitivity when responding to student compositions. Suggests ways which help clarify teacher responses to student writing. (MM)

Points out errors in instructor's written feedback, suggests alternatives, and illustrates how effective commentary results in improved student writing. (PD)

Discusses guidelines (developed by the Oregon State University Early Childhood Sex Education Project) for developing teacher-parent cooperation in providing sex education to young children. The guidelines concern how to talk about body differences and body functions; how to deal with masturbation, sex play and obscene language; and how to involve…

Not overreacting to disruptive behavior can be an effective way of maintaining classroom discipline. (JD)

The article lists 25 management procedures for teachers who might encounter children having uncontrolled or partially controlled seizure disorders. (DB)

Guidelines and suggestions for teachers for giving feedback to increase a child's self-concept are presented. Feedback should be positive, immediate, and frequent. Activities with immediate feedback features include the use of invisible pens for teacher-prepared questions in which the student, using a pen which makes the answer visible, knows…

Describes the underlying irony felt by a teacher of a multicultural business communication class. Describes six surprises or false assumptions experienced by the teacher. (RS)

Presents responses of eight teachers concerning the effects of mandated testing. Describes how the teachers cope with the problems raised by mandated tests. (RS)

Describes a method of providing students with oral feedback to their written assignments on cassette tapes in a business communication class. (SR)

Describes the "correction process" developed by one writing teacher by which students are asked to address comments to graded written assignments. Advocates allowing students to enter into a useful dialog with their instructor over the content and quality of their written work. (HB)

Discusses common-sense and immediate measures (and attendant difficulties) to deal with ethical issues raised by students' personal writing. Advocates giving more attention to the increasing complexities of teachers' roles; to the complicated and thoroughly nontraditional lives led by most students; to the increasingly personal interaction that…