Discusses the establishment of World Post Day and the objectives of its observance. Provides guidelines for upper elementary and lower secondary teachers to encourage observance of World Post Day across all disciplines. Includes language exercises in Maltese, English, French, and Italian as well as objectives for home economics, history, music,…

Gifted programs should be evaluated in terms of a child's specific needs. The following should also be considered: (1) statement of philosophy, purpose and goals; (2) management plan; (3) materials and activities; (4) curriculum individualization; (5) system of monitoring goal achievement; (6) opportunities for parent involvement; (7) program…

Describes the concept of an integrated environment which allows managers to evaluate and measure the performance of computer based information systems. Both system efficiency evaluation and user interaction evaluation are addressed, and MADAM, a system currently operational at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, is briefly described.…

This article describes how a fourth grade teacher helped his students learn about their home state through the experience of planning a simulated seven-day vacation trip. Data collected by the students was entered into a microcomputer filing and graphing system which helped them understand how to measure differences and make comparisons. (JDH)

Outlines the steps a college composition instructor can take to help students connect the idea relationships in a reading selection or in a writing assignment. The steps are based on a conceptual strategy known as semantic mapping or semantic networking. (SRT)

Offers news ways to integrate the language experience approach with a basal reader and in the content areas. (FL)

Describes a research project for teachers on reading and writing in which teachers meet regularly in small groups to share their creative writing. (EL)

Describes four student projects carried out in one English department's humanities program in l968. (EL)

Describes a project for neophyte teachers developed at Tarramurra High School in Sydney, Australia, aimed toward finding methods of teaching poetry to which students respond. (HOD)

Offers a four-step procedure that can be used to help upper elementary school students learn to write a well-structured expository paragraph. Suggests that the writing experience is a bridge to understanding more difficult text structure. (FL)

Describes learning activities that promote the teaching of reading and writing together within the context of basal materials. Presents an example of how these activities were used in a second-grade classroom. (FL)

Suggests ways to teach science while young children are actively involved in art, construction, reading, and music. These suggestions are listed for learning centers which focus on art, blocks, homemaking/dramatics, water/sand, manipulatives, language, outdoors, and music. Also indicates that "moments" for teaching science occur in many places…

Traces the development of a literature program for use in high school journalism classes in California. Contains a synopsis of the program units. (DF)

Lists four benefits to a journalism class of a good reading program, including proving academic worthiness for a class in jeopardy and aligning journalism classes with the nationwide requirement of reading across the curriculum. (DF)

Cites three strategies for teaching literature in journalism classes, including using literature packets as a class project and having students receive grades for the work they do on the literature packets. (DF)