Describes a program initiated by a high school chemistry teacher in which high school honors chemistry students do chemistry demonstrations for local elementary school students. The program has had great success in sparking enthusiasm and interest in chemistry among both high school and elementary school students. (DKM)

Describes a way to teach mathematics majors as guest instructors in their classroom to utilize resources with a wealth of experience, ideas, and enthusiasm. (Author/KHR)

A peer tutoring program at an Appalachian university was designed to meet the needs of students with poor academic backgrounds and multiple risk factors. Tutoring patterns included dyad, small group, large group, skill based, assignment based, and question based. Qualitative evaluation data revealed that each pattern required different tutor…

Describes how to integrate multicultural literature into the training of elementary peer helpers in today's diverse schools, thus enhancing peer helpers' cultural sensitivity. The article focuses on: integrating multicultural literature into training, the multicultural literature training format, and implications for selecting literature. It also…

In Italy, adults aged 50-76 were trained to transmit medical information to other elders. Results were compared with a group who received information from physicians. Quality of life, health promotion, and social life issues were investigated. (SK)

Presents data from 10 years of teaching using Peer Instruction (PI) in calculus- and algebra-based introductory physics courses for non-majors. Results indicate increased mastery of both conceptual reasoning and quantitative problem solving upon implementing PI. Discusses ways to improve the implementation of PI. (Contains 34 references.)…

A summary is given of research that indicates that, regardless of ability, most students who take a teaching role learn much more than they do when they receive instruction or work independently. Suggestions are given on techniques and activities teachers can use to promote students helping students. (IAH)

Important effective coaching components include facilitating teachers' lesson analysis, encouraging alternative approaches, and conducting conferences in a nonjudgmental way. This survey suggests that many of these critical attributes are lacking or of dubious quality for one-third to one-half of PET-trained teachers in the sample. Includes 14…

Suggests that the correlation between writing instruction and the psychoanalytic process is most apparent in the interaction between writing center tutors and their students. Argues that the core of tutoring and psychotherapy is the interactional dynamics of a search for insight involving an intimate transference of trust and vulnerability between…

Argues that writing center tutors (who deal with fragile egos, undeveloped thought, and unfulfilled promises) must not let their opinions interfere with writing instruction. Argues that tutors must also make their students aware of other viewpoints and, if the case warrants it, overstep the bounds of objectivity in expressing those views. (RS)

Describes the training and operation of the "Write Team," a class of high school junior and senior writing coaches who help students with first- or second-draft writing before a teacher evaluates it. (RS)

Student communication skills have been a topic of much recent concern and debate. At Portsmouth Polytechnic (England), student-led seminars improved verbal skills in accounting classes. (JOW)

The purpose of this article is to encourage teachers, principals, therapists, and others in rural education to recognize and share the gold mine of solutions and successes they can offer and to begin by developing networks through which they can share their practices and solutions. (Author)

The 1988 American Association of School Administrators Leadership Development Awards went to North Gibson School Corporation (Princeton, Indiana) for a bottom-up approach to staff development called Teachers Teaching Teachers and to Duval County Public Schools (Jacksonville, Florida) for an innovative Principal Preparation Program. (MLH)

Students at Walton High School in the Bronx, New York, can enroll in a preteaching academy to study and experience the role of the teacher. (Author/TE)