Explains how to create a file of useful student-centered language learning modules with four-by-six cards. Modules can focus on vocabulary development, completion drills, or sequential arrangement of information, can be adapted to any age level, and can be inexpensively augmented, or discarded after use. (Author/DJD)

Discusses how one teacher used word play to turn writing into an entertaining and imaginative sport. (ARH)

Author discusses teaching as an art and as such its becoming a self-fulfilling activity. (GB)

A psychology professor at the University of Utah maintains that every student will be better than average in some category if schools can find the right categories. In a question and answer format, guidelines are provided for school administrators pursuing this approach. (Author/JF)

All curriculum materials, packaged or otherwise, should be evaluated on the basis of the objectives of a given school district. (CK)

Suggest that if teachers select poems they enjoy, memorize them, say them aloud every day, invite children to recite them also, set up a special place to display poems and poetry books, and do not rush children, they will make poetry come alive for students. (JL)

Discusses ideas for the teaching of Latin and Greek such as integrating the study of language and culture, using a natural approach to teaching oral skills, using multiple approaches to maintain student interest, and correlating Latin with other subjects. These ideas were promoted by Francis Parker and John Dewey a century ago and are still…

The construction of the double dactyl form of poetry, the value of creating double dactyls as a learning experience, and guidelines for instructing students in writing double dactyls are discussed. (RW)

Asserts that arts can be catalysts for learning and should be a basic part of students' education, describing the traditional school as factory model of education versus school as studio, which uses the arts as a vehicle for curriculum. The paper examines the status of arts education, discusses alternative paths to reform that acknowledge arts as…

Using a soccer cyberhunt, elementary school students can learn all about the game of soccer while practicing computer skills. The cyberhunt teaches about: the history of soccer; soccer's name in other countries; number of players on the field; women's World Cup soccer; soccer rules; soccer legend, Pele; soccer moves; and the soccer ball. A…

Presents five cross-curricular activities involving student snapshots that are designed to keep students motivated. Activities include creating a class book with teacher and student photographs, making photo magnets using frozen juice can tops, developing a first-week word wall with students' names and photographs, and creating a post office with…

It is widely assumed that the theatre, particularly theatre for children, can and should teach. It is also widely assumed that the theatre can and does do harm, real harm, especially to children. And it is universally assumed that even if the theatre does not teach, it should do no harm. This author believes that these assumptions are true: that…

Asking children to use a dictionary without discussion to expand their vocabularies is uninteresting, unnatural and unwarranted. This type of assignment requests that the student teach him or herself. Directing students with words without showing them what to do is quite difficult. Asking them to do it independently without observing a model is…

The usage of poetry for learning mathematics is discussed. Formula poetry involves repetition instead of rhyme and is thus useful in understanding mathematical concepts.

Teaching has often been thought of as a creative performance. Although comparisons with performance were originally intended to emphasize teacher creativity, they have become associated instead with contemporary reform efforts toward scripted instruction that deny the creativity of teachers. Scripted instruction is opposed to constructivist,…