Interviews with 12 senior administrators (8 college, 2 business, 2 hospital) who kept a journal for a year or more revealed 3 major journal-keeping functions: sorting through administrative chaos; generating solutions to problems; and documenting the past by recording details of decisions, personal data, responses to situations. Implications for…

Describes "SwampLog," an action-research journal process useful for recording and reflecting upon ongoing experience, exploring and creating innovative approaches to education, and gauging the resultant effects upon organizational, instructional, and individual renewal. (PRA)

Outlines a three-part integrated and reciprocal program which can effectively incorporate a writing program that has a strong reading component into a drama curriculum. Includes journal writing as the foundation for the program, as well as "I-search" and integrated dramatic readings for further depth and coverage in the content area.…

Provides a writing teacher's journal of her experiences teaching classes on literary criticism and composition. Also includes excerpts from students' journals. Touches on cognitive processes, contestation, collaborative writing, and intertextuality. (PRA)

Journal writing is recommended to help gifted students understand themselves and be understood by others. Three techniques are described: journal jumpers, which are ideas useful in promoting self-disclosure and self-analysis in journal writing; film reaction writing; and analysis of emotional growth found in the journals of other writers. (JDD)

Argues that incorporating the use of poetry writing into the clinical treatment of survivors of sexual abuse can be beneficial. Uses examples of such poetry to show how the creative writing of survivors reveals repressed information about their abuses, self-concepts, and about their basic beliefs in the areas of safety, trust, power, intimacy, and…

Teachers can help elementary students cope at the beginning of the school year by assisting them in getting to know one another. Writing is a good tool for bridging the gap between personal and school lives. The article suggests writing activities and explains how to create a good writing environment. (SM)

A teacher developing a method to teach spiritual care to nursing students over age 25 used a journal to record and reflect on experiences. The importance of a safe and open learning environment, use of adult-learning principles, and immediate recording of journal entries was underscored. (SK)

Discusses 13 professional books (on multiple intelligences, changing literacies, censorship in children's literature, grading student writing, learning journals, and more) and one book of fiction that are potentially useful to educators, and that, in one way or another, take up the theme of "being explicit about explicit instruction."…

Examined how effectively journal writing promoted reflection among preservice teachers. Surveys, conversations, and interviews with educational psychology students required to write journal entries during the course indicated that most enjoyed the experience and considered it a valuable experience that helped them reflect on previous beliefs and…

Pennebaker's interest in the relationship between the disclosure or inhibition of traumatic experience and psychosomatic illness is followed through his career. His current research addresses other aspects of physical and mental health. Important implications for the counseling process and for counseling professionals are discussed. (Author/EMK)

Describes how a weekly focused journal writing assessment (in which students note any use of language they find interesting, puzzling, amusing, or annoying as well as their response to it) enhances composition students' awareness of how language is used and where. Offers several different advantages of such journal writing. (SR)

Considers how to incorporate all the components of early literacy strategies into a daily schedule. Describes what occurs during each component and how routines, centers, a rotation system, and classroom management are incorporated through a balanced schedule. Creates a seamless instructional and thematically based environment where the components…

Discusses dialogue journal writing and its incorporation into a college-level Calculus 1 course. Identifies how: (a) e-mail dialogue journals provided a viable means of individualized, continual contact with students in a large class; (b) students benefited from asking questions and receiving timely explanations; and (c) the instructor received…

Presents an activity on building a structure with Lego blocks and points out the importance of laboratory records. Includes instructor information and a student worksheet. (YDS)