This article explores the implications for the "Nacherzahlung" (free adaptation) of two distinctions from narrative theory. It suggests an explanation of students' difficulty writing about literary texts in second-year German courses and describes an approach to enhancing writing skills based on the interpretive summary. (Author)

Asks program administrators to determine the status of two aspects of journalism and mass communication education that have been widely debated: The relative weight of skills development and conceptual content; and the extent to which students study the liberal arts and sciences in their courses. Concludes the administrators think their programs…

Discusses the implementation of a writing improvement model for students in Crete Public Schools (Nebraska). Students who completed courses with the six-trait analytical model were given writing self-perception scales. The results showed that they felt they had made much progress in their writing abilities, both in their own eyes and in the eyes…

Meal preparation skills and recipes for students with disabilities are organized into four types: foods requiring no cooking, stovetop use, baking, and microwave oven use. Templates for each type present frequently occurring words and procedures that can be used to prepare a number of foods, and recipes are presented involving the same set of…

Tomorrow's "digital" classrooms will still have to develop analogal reading and thinking skills, keep kids grounded in the real world, distinguish style from substance, impart knowledge via lectures, promote linear and synthetic thinking, stress meaningful over fun-filled learning, and provide essential human contact. (MLH)

Examined the effects of both general and task-specific writing experiences on college students' writing-skill development. As predicted, repeated practice was associated with superior writing skills and after controlling for repeated practice, writing within a specific test domain was associated with superior writing skills. Implications for…

Reviews research on the Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) approach in physical education, noting that many discussions of TGfU have focused on cognitive and psychomotor learning outcomes and neglected the affective domain. An extended TGfU model is presented, suggesting new avenues for future research and practice (e.g., consideration of…

Presents a new version of the Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) model in physical education which draws on a situated learning perspective, describing the TGfU approach, reviewing recent research on TGfU, discussing constructs for conceptualizing learning in games, and outlining a situated learning perspective. This perspective is applied to…

Examines the task of teaching writing in a second language. Examines the skills specific to writing beyond vocabulary and language structure, including transcribing using the language of writing, and composing. Looks at writing in relation to other skills, approaches to teaching writing, and successful writing instruction. (Author/VWL)

An exercise to help improve the geographic skills of preservice teachers was developed and tested during a six year period on over 500 students. The exercise required these students to map two arrangements of roads and facilities within a small neighborhood. A set of special-temporal primitives (place, size, shape, distance, direction,…

Young people are growing up at a time when issues of domestic and international conflict and a myriad of problems are increasingly intertwined. Rather than resorting to threats of retaliatory violent action, schools need to find ways to resolve conflicts peaceably. This article proposes that students be given specific opportunities to a)…

This article describes six instructional techniques that support emerging or struggling writers. The techniques are first modeled in a vignette of a kindergarten writing conference and then explicitly defined. A writing scale is presented for tracking the development of emerging writers with suggestions for the type and timing of instruction…

Literacy has traditionally been associated with the printed word. But today, print literacy is not enough. Children and youth need to learn to "read" and interpret visual images as well. Film, television, videos, DVDs, computer games, and the Internet all hold a prominent and pervasive place in one's culture. Its presence in people's lives is only…

Trying to implement the National Standards for Music Education the author has led her to the important conclusion that improvisation is a valuable teaching tool. Rather than thinking about it as yet another thing to teach in the already too-short music lesson, she has started using improvisation activities to reinforce music learning. By doing…

Every curriculum document mentions critical thinking. There are three reasons which are especially influential in relegating critical thinking to a sideshow on the educational agenda: (1) proliferation of thinking "skills"; (2) the ranking of thinking skills; and (3) separation of "skills" from content. Critical teaching can assume a rightfully…