Laments the lack of change in suggested titles for high school readers. Suggests that librarians could help teachers find newer material and recommends some outstanding literature for adolescents. (JL)

Guidelines for effective discipline techniques are given. (JD)

Reviews research on importance of strong professional communities for supporting reform. National Center for Research in Mathematical Sciences Education (NCRMSE) found significant correlation between teachers' professional community and reformed mathematics instruction. Urban Mathematics Collaboratives (UMC), Quantitative Understanding: Amplifying…

Argues that teachers need to be aware of the effect adult illiteracy has in their classrooms. Discusses identifying low-literate parents, what to do next, and ways to support low-literate parents. (SR)

Suggests some techniques and strategies that teachers can share with parents to help them support their children as they construct meaning, develop scientific literacy, and form a more intense and personal connection with the content information presented in science and mathematics books. (KHR)

Describes an ongoing project, the Cosmic Ray Observatory Project (CROP), being conducted by the University of Nebraska in partnership with several high schools. Each school group has installed cosmic ray detectors, and initial activities have included calibrating equipment, gathering preliminary data, and learning about cosmic ray showers. Aims to…

Defines "collective creation" as a collaborative process undertaken by actors/students and their director/teacher and the resulting creative product. Describes a study of a collective creation as an instructional practice. Suggests that collective creation teaching approaches might work effectively to serve social justice purposes in the…

Presents an activity in which college chemistry students collaboratively identify chemical substances. (MKR)

Describes a collaborative project by a tropical ecologist, an ant expert, and a biology teacher to explore insect herbivory in the rainforest canopy. (MKR)

Presents a lesson plan for teaching students about international alliances. Calls upon students to decide which Middle Eastern nations would be the most beneficial allies for the United States. Includes an activity sheet, guidelines for selection, and teacher questions for processing student decisions. (SG)

Suggests a popular model of service delivery for students with disabilities is full inclusion. Suggests regular classroom teachers should identify and focus on included students' strengths and carefully examine students' academic and social gains. Argues that school personnel should work in collaborative teams in which skills, experience, talents,…

Presents two group activities for ages 10 and up; one instructs about food groups and reinforces healthy eating habits, while the other is a multitask physical activity stressing cooperation and coordination. Includes target group, group size, time and space needs, activity level, overview, goals, props, instructions, suggestions for framing and…

Reports on a school college partnership through which elementary school children learned how to use newspapers to rebuild slopes on their schoolgrounds that had been eroded by runoffs. The project showed the benefits of such partnerships and the importance of environmental education. (MM)

The key to improving students' attitudes about reading is to expose them to more contemporary literature--books to which they can relate in settings and themes--books that they are more likely to enjoy. This article describes a collaborative literature circles project between an English teacher and a media specialist that was extremely successful…

This training guide provides materials for a workshop for professionals in the adult literacy field. Broad purposes of the workshop are to improve adult literacy services in order to reduce illiteracy and to develop collaborative strategies involving employers at the community level in adult literacy activities. A content outline is accompanied by…