Sensitive, conscientious teachers can help change children's competitiveness into greater feelings of success and self-worth and can enhance acceptance for mainstreamed handicapped students. (CL)

Guidelines for parents and teachers before, during, and after a conference concerning a gifted student are presented. Among suggestions for parents to keep in mind are that there may be legitimate, honest differences of opinion and that the focus should be on how the problem can be resolved. (PHR)

Describes a method for teaching and rehearsing collaboration, which involves the application of improvisation skills to conversation. Concludes that the goal of this method is to motivate students to recognize and suspend commonplace assumptions that privilege intuition and impulse. (PM)

Describes an assignment that uses Spanish, Chinese, and French texts in addition to customary English texts, allowing class members to share one another's languages, embrace diversity, and shift privilege. Argues that this move foregrounds oppositional discourse for both students and faculty, creating classrooms in which "right thinking is…

Outlines a low-cost introductory adventure program. Discusses proper activity sequencing to ensure participation and group unity, adaptation of activities to participant needs, incorporation of briefing and debriefing, and the leader's role. Describes ice breakers, trust-building activities, and simple rope courses. (SV)

Describes Student-Tracked Atmospheric Research Satellite for Heuristic International Networking Experiment (STARSHINE), which enables students to explore optical astronomy, orbital dynamics, space and atmospheric physics, mathematics and international cooperation by tracking a satellite. (Author)

Describes an effective scene study class including the sequential tasks of: analyzing the script independently; collaborating with a scene partner and finding common ground; developing the throughline of action; and working the moments, the beats, and the overall scene until each moment flows into the next. Considers ways to set up classroom…

The "Guide to National Board Certification" introduces teachers to the assessment process and provides them with useful information as they apply for National Board Certification or order the "Take One![R]" professional development kit. By participating in the National Board Certification process, participants are joining tens of thousands of…

Research shows that stress in the crucial early years of a child's life can pose dramatic, lasting challenges to development, learning, and behavior. This is the practical book early childhood professionals need to recognize stress in young children--and intervene with proven relief strategies before pressures turn into big problems. Developed by…

Four modules are presented from a project linking the New Jersey Department of Education, Divisions of Vocational Education and Special Education and The New Jersey Department of Labor, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation. Modules address the vocational needs of handicapped secondary students. Each unit in the module lists objectives, grouping…

This document is one of a set of four documents which present a personnel development program aimed at improving the competence of instructional leaders in planning and implementing curricula in generic work skills, especially in vocational education. (Generic work skills are defined as those skills that facilitate the operation of goal-oriented…

Presents activities that combine the arts with reading, writing, mathematics, social studies, science, and foreign language instruction. (FL)

The production of an American pencil is the result of complex interactions involving many people, places, and resources. Learning activities dealing with the making of a pencil that will help students learn about global interdependence are described. The activities can be adapted to fit any elementary grade level. (RM)

While competition is good for students, some learning time should recognize and reflect innate capacities for cooperation. Techniques that teachers can use to teach cooperation are discussed. (RM)

A model is offered to encourage an alliance between home and school by promoting teacher well-being (through such activities as relaxation, visualization, and centering) and psychological comfort of parents of handicapped children. (CL)