Training medical students in physician/patient interaction skills resulted in a reduction of the number of times patients failed to show for their scheduled appointments. However, students were ambivalent about recommending the course to future students. (RM)

The imminent closing of their school led one school's teachers to design the curriculum for the last six months around the theme of shelter. Activities utilized included thinking and verbalizing about the idea of shelter, building and writing about shelters, building cameras and taking photographs, and going on field trips. (IS)

An institute held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art taught teachers how to look at art, how to use an art museum as a resource, how to use visual arts confidently, and how to integrate the visual arts into classroom subjects. The program's goals, teaching methods, and results are covered. (IS)

Presents a simulation called "Food For Thought" which permits teachers (and ultimately their students) to draw conclusions about population issues. The simulation involves studying six continents by choosing ambassadors and citizens, looking at land areas and use, and considering protein consumption. (BC)

Discusses how school grounds can be used as a resource to relate textbook concepts to everyday life and to understand interrelationships which exist in the outdoors. Possible school ground learnings considered include topics related to weather and weather prediction; changes (aging, growth, decay); geology; temperature; water; and recycling. (BC)

Describes using Hitchcock's work in the writing class to promote attention to detail, careful preparation for writing and revision, and stylistic concreteness. (CRH)

Reviews theories on cognition and perception as they relate to language and the arts and presents research supporting an arts-centered curriculum as beneficial to language and reading development. (FL)

Described is a teacher-developed book about the Civil War for use in an 11th grade interdisciplinary U.S. history/English literature course. The text contains a brief historical summary of letters written by a Union soldier, a guide for studying the letters, and suggestions for further reading. (RM)

Art can make a contribution toward erasing ethnic stereotypes and cultural misunderstandings. Two multicultural art programs operating in British Columbia elementary schools are described. (RM)

Describes the difficulties that students have in language use in the areas of math, social studies, science, and English as reported by high school teachers in Saskatoon and rural Saskatchewan. (CRH)

Argues that reading teachers have a prominent part to play in promoting scientific literacy, and that specialists in reading are vital as colleagues of content area teachers, leaders in curriculum development and agents of change in educational legislation. (FL)

Tomorrow's teacher will have to be a scholar, acquainted with all of the arts and sciences. (MM)

To provide educational relevance, enable students to gain community awareness, and provide opportunities for self-discipline and individualized learning, an interdisciplinary team (Problems of Democracy, English, and Consumer Economics) in a California high school offer a one-semester course to senior high school students in which the classroom is…

Offers suggestions for shaping an institutional curriculum or program of international studies. They include: (1) comments on strategies for building an international studies program and (2) suggestions on how to work a foreign language department into an existing international studies curriculum. (CHK)

Some ways to improve language education and second language competence in an international society and to promote foreign language study are suggested: Realistic achievement goals; efficient and flexible instruction; instruction in pedagogical methods; interdepartmental cooperation; cooperation with bilingual education programs; promoting study…