Discusses the importance of critical literacy education, and highlights its history in development of education settings. Outlines the steps in critical debate, and describes the three styles of formal debate. Notes that jurisprudential inquiry is a key instructional method for learning to think about social policy, and describes three competency…

Suggests rethinking purposes of the second-language listening lesson, and examines ways the skill can be taught, not just practiced. The approach is based on micro-listening exercises that practice individual subskills of listening. Implications of authentic materials are examined, a case is made for teaching recognition of features of spontaneous…

This article reviews a book, "Teaching Kids and Adults with Autism: Building the Framework for Lifetime Learning," (Kathleen McConnell Fad and L. Rozelle Moulton) designed to provide parents and educators with information concerning some of the numerous options available in educating children and adults with autism. It finds the information…

Discusses an interactive teaching tool, Teaching Anger Control through Teamwork (ACTT), which can be used in promoting character education and safe schools programs. The objectives of ACTT concern the process of anger control and teaching skills for getting along with peers. The tool uses creative and expressive arts as support techniques to…

How and when children acquire the ability to read and write are questions of considerable interest. This essay uses a simple marker that has been closely examined in the historical literature, the ability to sign one's name, to study circumstances of literacy learning in a sample of 782 children that dates from about two centuries ago. Few…

Research demonstrates that most college faculty lack a substantive concept of critical thinking, though they mistakenly think otherwise. This chapter spells out the implications of such a robust concept and emphasizes that success in bringing a substantive concept of critical thinking to college faculty requires well-planned, long-term…

Mathematics and language both involve learning skills, but the letters and sounds of literacy seem distinct from the basic facts of mathematics. In this article, the author explains the connection between language and mathematics. She explains that mathematics and language are interconnected because when one discusses and debates about…

Promoting interactions between preschool children is an important topic because peer social interactions provide a crucial context for children's development. However, many young children experience difficulty with peer relations, particularly children with disabilities. Indeed, children with disabilities have problems with peer interactions…

From a very young age, children actively strive to make sense of their world through constant questioning. The ability to ask questions comes naturally for young children, but such natural inclination does not continue because it teachers who ask most of the questions. Sheena Hervey suggests that teaching students how to pose questions is a…

Most teachers are well aware that verbal questioning can aid student learning. Asking questions can stimulate students to think about the content being studied; connect it to prior knowledge consider its meanings and implications; and explore its applications. A common problem with many teachers' use of verbal questioning is a lack of knowledge…

Children with autism fail to develop joint attention skills appropriate to developmental age. Joint attention is a predictor of ability in several core domains of autism including language, social development, affective sharing, and theory of mind capacity, thus establishing the significance of teaching joint attention. However, there is limited…

At one time, the financial unit of a family and consumer sciences (FCS) curriculum was as simple as looking at budgets and doing checkbook exercises. Today, the FCS financial literacy program is a 6-week unit, designed to meet the Colorado Core Life Management Curriculum Standard II, Managing Your Finances, and the FCS Education National Standard…

This article argues for the adoption of complicated approaches by management educators. The argument rests on the position that if uncertainty and ambiguity are inherent to management, particularly in view of the profound changes that have occurred during recent years in the competitive environments of organizations, there is the need to develop…

In this second part of a two-part series, the authors share informative teaching tips that ensure students will have ample opportunity to learn specific skills and attitudes relative to cooperation. This article describes the purpose of cooperative tasks in the curriculum. Considerations for implementing cooperative tasks in physical education are…

Exposing students to content outside of the classroom encourages them to take control of their learning. This article describes three methods for redesigning courses to create more class time for the development of higher-order skills. The combination of in-and out-of-class activities improves student learning without sacrificing course content.…