Discusses how instructors can design a local field trip for undergraduate students enrolled in an economic geography class. The purpose of the field trip is to help students observe and interpret familiar scenes in terms of geographical concepts such as central place theory, changing land use, and spatial competition. (RM)

Moving to music may significantly enhance our appreciation of a performance of a music work. Implications for the encouragement of movement in education for music appreciation are discussed. (RM)

The effects of two learning techniques on immediate and delayed tests examining factual and high-order learning outcomes was examined using 23 college students. Results indicated that listening to a lecture and subsequently reviewing the instructor's notes leads to higher student achievement than taking and reviewing personal lecture notes.…

This article reports the results of a training program intended to help women reenter the labor market and to create a pool of female labor skilled in the methods of modern business management using new technology. The course was directed at unemployed women residents in the Teifi Valley of Mid-Wales. (CT)

Suggests a possible answer to the question "How can learning style information be used to increase learning?" It is proposed that the learner be responsible for using the learning style information and that the instructor assume the responsibility for creating an environment in which the resulting diversity can be accommodated. (CT)

Shows traditionally trained English teachers that the insights obtained through advanced literary study are central to the teaching of technical and scientific writing and demonstrates that recent composition scholarship has shown technical writing to be an imaginative, creative, and thus, poetic endeavor. (EL)

Provides a framework for planning an approach to text through drama and describes a lesson plan using this approach with "Red Shift" by Dorothy Heathcote. (HOD)

Offers suggestions for teachers of adult basic education and GED classes to help students feel comfortable in class. (FL)

Offers a technique for teaching vocabulary that integrates the use of individual students' needs and experiences with the use of sentence context in determining specific situational word meanings. (FL)

Describes some innovations found in large U.S. corporations' educational programs and discusses the relevance of these innovations for educational institutions. (MCG)

The author discusses the Rural Development Degree Program (village-based, experientially oriented degree courses at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks), which is aimed at developing local leadership to mediate the impact of the dominant external forces and to maintain a modicum of social and cultural integrity. (CT)

Describes activities which allow students of English as a second language to practice conditional sentences. The activities are designed to (1) guide the students' use of language so that three types of conditional sentences are elicited and practiced to encourage a high level of student participation and (2) be fun. (SED)

Discusses the problem which English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) teacher trainees who are nonnative English speakers have in reading articles about EFL teaching methods. As a solution to this problem, the author produced a worksheet for the students to fill in while reading the articles which followed Hoey's…

Discusses the use of films captioned for the deaf in teaching both students of English-as-a-second-language and deaf students. Recommends over 40 specific films which the author prescreened to verify accuracy of content, language level, reading speed, and synchronization. Lists five points to consider in planning lessons. (SED)

Reviews the literature indicating that most classroom communication is of the "teacher question-student response-teacher reaction" cycle, either oral or written. Argues that this dominant pattern of classroom dialogue is ill-adapted to real learning and presents an alternative model that values exploratory talk and writing. (HTH)