Focus group research methodology was used to identify professional skills regarded by educational team members (N=30) as necessary to support students who used augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) in general education classrooms. All valued five skills, including the ability to work together collaboratively and to maintain and operate…

Introduces the course Javametrics 101: Mastering the Art and Science of Good Coffee which is designed for nonmajor science students. Emphasizes the scientific method in an integrated curriculum. (Contains 15 references.) (YDS)

Demonstrates a model system that recreates seasonal processes on Mars. Lists necessary materials and explains the construction of the demonstration. Provides discussion questions. (Contains 11 references.) (YDS)

Discusses assessment in a standards-based setting, focusing on the importance of assessing subject content in social studies and the tensions teachers experience when incorporating standards and assessment. Describes a personal retrospective assignment on the civil rights movement, provides scoring guides for the assignment, and includes a student…

Draws on emerging trends in British universities to examine arguments concerning the continued specialization of comparative and international education versus its integration into other disciplines. Argues that there is an urgent need for comparativists to become active change agents in the broader transformation of their institutions into…

Discusses the use of analog drawing in an undergraduate interdisciplinary arts course. States that analog drawing uses lines as representation of portraits, problems, or emotions. Explains how analog drawing was used to depict social issues and reports on the interpretations of student drawings. (CMK)

Asserts that all children can draw, but as children get older, a feeling of inadequacy may surface. Explores different drawings done by children and addresses the benefits of drawing for children. Discusses the author's teaching manuals "Drawing is Basic" that encourage children's confidence in their drawing abilities. (CMK)

Presents an activity that used the book "The Rainbow Fish" by Marcus Pfister as a means to introducing the project in which first-grade students created a picture of a fish. Explains how the students practice following step-by-step directions by the teacher. (CMK)

Discusses musical activities that foster early literacy development according to six different early literacy instructional goals: (1) children's learning of concepts of print; (2) a sense of story and sequence; (3) phonemic awareness and phonics; (4) background knowledge and vocabulary; (5) basic spelling patterns; and (6) early writing…

Describes an interdisciplinary art and music lesson for third- and fourth-grade students where students learned about maracas from the music teacher and then created their own maracas. Explains the process for creating the maracas in detail and includes a list of materials needed, the learning objectives, and a bibliography. (CMK)

Shows how participation in a program that emphasizes international economics and culture and thus study abroad and double majors has strengthened the language department at one university. Author/VWL)

Describes a multifaceted program at Wagner College in New York which connects students, student affairs administrators, and faculty to build a comprehensive approach that prepares students for participation in a democracy. (EV)

Describes an introductory course that is part of one university's efforts to prepare human service workers to function more effectively in an integrated-services environment. According to student reports, the course is beneficial. (MKA)

This paper provides an overview of interdisciplinary assessment procedures and criteria for diagnosis of central auditory processing (CAP) disorders. It describes use of a CAP test battery consisting of four measures with results integrated with a comprehensive speech-language pathology assessment. Practical strategies for classroom utilization…

Reports on an experience using a science theme to achieve literacy targets in an elementary classroom. (WRM)