Even the most experienced teachers provided with the highest quality instructional materials benefit from additional support to ensure student success. Simply adopting new instructional materials is unlikely to significantly change teacher practice. Ensuring a level of excellence that benefits all students calls for an approach to professional…

Social competency is a set of skills that provide children with the tools and abilities to successfully navigate the world around them. "Developing Social Competency in Young Children" looks at each of the seven Cs of social competence--communication, community building, coping, confidence, conflict resolution, control, and curiosity.…

Now in its second edition, "Nature and Young Children" promotes the holistic development of children by connecting them with nature. It offers advice and guidance on how to set up indoor and outdoor nature play spaces as well as encouraging environmentally responsible attitudes, values and behaviour in your early childhood setting. Covering topics…

In this case study, we are able to take a close look at a situation not often encountered in the literature on ICTs in emerging economies: a private company from an emerging economy provided much-needed funding for a US NASA higher learning consortium through a contract for training and research and development in 3D visualization. This study…

In this article, the authors explore the question, "Does the Moon spin?", and show how the question is investigated. They emphasise the importance of the process by which people work out what they know, by "learning from the inside out." They stress that those involved in science education have to challenge current conceptions and ideas, making…

The author suggests reality therapy (based on the assumption that all individuals need to believe they are worthwhile and important) as a technique that educators can use to work more effectively with gifted students. (SBH)

Discusses the general nature of adult learning and six principles of effective practice for facilitating learning: (1) voluntary participation; (2) mutual respect; (3) collaborative spirit; (4) action and reflection; (5) critical reflection; and (6) self-direction. (45 references) (MES)

The author describes an approach to helping dyslexic children by making the learning situation as painless as possible and helping students accept responsibility for more careful scrutiny and accurate decoding. (CL)

The role of a teacher in working with visually handicapped children in regular classes is discussed. The use of remedial materials, low-vision aids, and classroom adaptations are considered. (CL)

Enumerates the transitions, adjustments, challenges and satisfactions that new teachers of technical writing will face. Makes seven points about the content and emphasis of technical writing instruction and lists readings in technical writing. (RL)

This paper examines the role adopted by teacher and youth work practitioners engaged in a project to carry forward practice in the handling of controversial issues in the contested society of Northern Ireland. First, it briefly outlines the development of work in the field during the 34 years of the present conflict, suggesting that to date too…

Six suggestions are offered to help adult basic education teachers to develop adults' critical thinking skills. The suggestions recommend that teachers (1) seek reasons for an answer, (2) look for alternative answers, (3) take a passive role in discussion, (4) do not give an opinion unless asked, (5) ask students to back up their opinions, and (6)…

Discusses problems mildly disabled students often have with their assignments and offers ways teachers' can adapt regular academic content to overcome those problems. (FL)

By providing children with both the tools to learn basic facts and access to facts not yet learned, teachers give children the freedom to attend to the meaning of algorithms and word problems, which play an important role in the application of mathematics in daily life. (MP)

Reflects on what it is like to be a writer and how others might help the writer. (HOD)