Described is a guitar program that offers an alternative to high school students who otherwise might not be involved in school music. (RM)

After a frustrating time trying to explain general class participation grades to students, the author developed a form designed to mitigate some of those difficulties. (Author/RK)

The first in a 3-volume series, this book presents instructional units on cultural universals for primary grade social studies. This volume focuses on food, clothing, and shelter, and includes information about how and why it was developed and suggestions about planning and implementing the units. Its content is elementary and familiar in that it…

It is becoming increasingly important to approach the study of the earth and its inhabitants with a global perspective. Several approaches can be used to teach global history. New global education programs and courses are being developed. (AM)

Describes the evolving functions of an in-house art gallery at a Milwaukee, Wisconsin elementary school. Teachers used the gallery exhibits extensively as an educational resource and as the basis of their classroom activities. Exhibit themes always involved at least two curriculum areas. (AM)

Urges yearbook staffs to experiment with graphics; describes the use of the "modular geometrick design," and includes reproductions of yearbook pages based on this design. (GT)

In a technologically advanced, media-saturated culture, children are often confronted with realities that are as disturbing as they are real. Educators search for ways to deal with events that are so compelling that everything else drowns in the tide. They search for ways to bring these events into the learning environment in a manner that is…

This paper offers a case history of one university academic department's experience with the pressure to create online scholarship opportunities for professional educators. As tertiary education transforms its course delivery to Web-based learning management platforms, instructors are challenged to transform career-long practice suddenly and…

Introduces the symposium on arts integration in other countries. Provides brief summaries of the papers included and biographical information on the authors. Authors include Andre Karpati and Emil Gaul on Hungary, Shifra Schonman writing from Israel, Gary E. McPherson discussing Australia, and David Best on England. (MJP)

Purpose: The school environment in the islands of Malta is experiencing important changes that need to be critically addressed if school improvement and, more importantly, student learning is going to be enhanced. This paper aims to present the education authorities with an introductory review which aims to contextualise the potential networking…

Explores the educational innovations that are dependent on new technologies and the current thinking on potential changes in delivery of educational services in higher education; assesses their impact on planning an existing or new/satellite campus; and proposes a model to allow for self-paced computer learning, distance learning, computer-driven…

How administrators can provide for individualized instruction. (HB)

As part of the North Carolina 1990 Heritage Week Celebration, all North Carolina schools were invited to participate in a unique project known as "Tales and Technology." For this project, students were invited to gather folk tales about traditions, family stories, names of places, or tales that had been passed from one person to another,…

Teachers willing to research available funding sources and prepare a detailed and comprehensive grant proposal may find themselves on the threshold of many successful grantsmanship adventures. Obtaining grant moneys can mean implementation of innovative ideas that normal budgeting can not provide for. Information is presented regarding: (1) the…

The faculty at the DuBois Campus of the Pennsylvania State University are using video recording equipment in a variety of ways. Student performances are videotaped for different purposes in speech, marketing, and physical education classes. Professors in the Wildlife Technology Program are using portable videotaping equipment to record activities…