Guidelines are offered for modifying the classroom environment to develop better listening skills in children with poor listening skills. Included are general considerations about the characteristics and needs of children with poor listening skills, specific activities in the classroom to enhance skills in these children, and whole-class listening…

Discusses and describes incrementally organized instructional strategies for teaching students of French how to hypothesize. The method uses the naturally occurring phenomenon in "La Vie Conjugale," a French short story by Michelle Maurois. Instructional activities designed to help students master this function are described. (MSE)

Four steps in facilitating pragmatic language development in young hearing-impaired students are discussed, including identifying communication behaviors, coding a child's conversation, putting the school environment to work, and charting progress. A pragmatic communication skills taxonomy and a grid of age-linked pragmatic communication skills…

As an orientation to the actual composition process, learning-disabled students should be taught methods for the development and organization of ideas. Strategies are presented for helping learning-disabled students improve composition skills by improving flexibility in vocabulary and sentence structure and by planning and sequencing ideas and/or…

A strategy designed to improve listening skills of secondary-level students with attention deficit disorder involves tape recording a news broadcast, giving students an outline frame to follow as they listen to the broadcast, having students reconstruct the broadcast from memory, and quizzing students on the broadcast's main ideas. (JDD)

Discusses an article written by three Soviet teachers who analyze studies conducted in the area of foreign language teaching, particularly the teaching of Russian. Their focus is on the methodological principles of an approach that integrates the teaching of the four skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing). (CFM)

Eleven students of novice paddling ability were divided into two groups, one group receiving verbal, the other nonverbal, instructions on using the kayak stern rudder. The verbal group was significantly better at performing the correct sequence of movements. Results support existing research showing that observation alone does not enable the…

This paper outlines six speech training guidelines to enhance oral communication development in children wearing cochlear implants. Specific teaching activities are presented to illustrate each guideline and recommended therapy tools are described. (Author)

This article describes strategies to assist toddlers with special needs in inclusive settings to acquire social interaction skills. Strategies include: (1) arranging the environment; (2) group affection activities; (3) imitation of peers; (4) teacher prompts; (5) teacher reinforcement; (6) correspondence training; and (7) peer-mediated…

Stimulus control technology was used to instruct seven students in grades five and six who demonstrated difficulty with fraction ratio and decimal relations. Students were trained to match pictorial representations of fractions to printed counterpart fraction ratios and to match printed decimals to pictorial representations of counterpart…

This study, involving four primary-aged students with moderate handicaps, found that the system of least prompts procedure was effective in teaching food words on a menu to students in a small-group instructional arrangement and that each student also acquired some secondary nontarget stimuli (such as food's approximate cost). (Author/JDD)

A five-session class called "Parenting Bright Children" was designed to help parents of school-aged children assist in their children's education. The class involved discussions of learning theory and practice, as well as hands-on applications of the theory presented. Topics discussed in the class included creativity, perfectionism, learning…

Discusses setting up conversation tables on campus in cross-cultural interaction among native and nonnative speakers, presents ways to teach proverbs in the advanced classroom, describes how to use Aesop's fables to integrate all learning skills, tells how to teach make/do, and suggests ways to improve communicative skills for better accuracy and…

Drawing on two case studies from a larger qualitative study of four public high school teachers modeling conflict-management approaches in their social-studies classrooms, this article focuses on teachers' treatment of a key concept (the idea of rights) that captures the individual's confrontation with the political society. Tolerance and…

Discusses the contribution of Zoltan Kodaly to music lesson planning. Emphasizes preparation, presentation, and practice as the three important strategies in teaching concepts and skills to be included in a lesson plan. Includes a sample lesson plan covering a semester and advice on choosing song material. (DK)