The author shares how she planned activities for National Vocational Education Week at her school. The activities featured the school's appearance in the opening segment of the American Broadcasting Company's national morning program, "Good Morning, America." (CH)

A teacher describes how he modified a cooperative learning approach featuring heterogeneous grouping for his elementary school class, covering setting up teams, teaching a lesson, managing the evaluation/scoring system, and the approach's pitfalls and benefits. A list of resources and suggestions are presented. (CB)

Provides a wide range of practical teaching ideas, including tips for using big books, the use of word maps for teaching new concepts, and the use of storybooks to teach counting. Provides an annotated bibliography of summer reading for students and teachers. Discusses the history, content, and future of the Whole Language Approach. (ARH)

Suggests that open interaction is exquisitely controlled social behavior, and groups employing it possess an impressive potential for social influence. These misrepresentations of the power of the activity and the group leader constitute a kind of mystification by the practitioner of himself or herself and his or her clientele. (Author/BL)

Four components of comprehensive Hispanic group service are identified: assessment of the Hispanic community; a balanced program of groups that address social goals and groups that are reciprocal and remedial; knowledge of cultural and process issues; and the role of the Hispanic collaborative of community workers in effecting policy. (Author/BL)

Reports the development of an instrument to measure attraction to group and discusses several studies designed to assess its reliability and validity. (Author/BL)

Provides a description of a workshop intended to diffuse resistance and help prepare staff for technological innovations. (Author)

Describes the learning community model that involves teachers in an ongoing process of developing and refining curriculum. Through the sharing of information teachers improve their classroom practices and are more accountable for what they teach. (MD)

Communication among hearing and hearing impaired professionals can be improved by attention to preparation factors (such as careful consideration of the arrangement of the meeting room), aspects of the conduct of the meeting (including discouraging side conversations), and wise use of interpreters. (CL)

Combine whimsical rhyming verses with practical activities that span the curriculum. Ideal for emergent and reluctant readers, this book offers: (1) repeated exposure to high-frequency words; (2) engaging opportunities for word-building, sentence development, and cross-curricular concepts; (3) fun ways to boost vocabulary and build reading…

New and experienced school counselors will find this handbook to be a valuable resource that addresses most of the challenging situations they confront everyday. "Top 10 Topics" will also interest counselor educators who train graduate students to do group-work. This book is filled with reproducible activities, in-depth discussion questions,…

We begin the article with a brief discussion of why groups are recommended in language teaching. After that, we describe what Cooperative Learning (CL) is. Then, we suggest ways in which CL and Information Technology (IT) fit well together. This is followed by some examples of how to combine CL with IT. [This article was published in Teaching of…

This chapter describes how cooperative learning provides one means of making the best of the less than ideal situation that teachers face when facilitating learning in large classes. The chapter begins with a description of some of the difficulties teachers confront when using group activities with large classes. Next, background on cooperative…

Synergized educational experiences can be used as effective modes of presenting content in the area of industrial arts education, and new concepts in learning and laboratory design will begin to illuminate the concept of synergy. Research in conjunction with this study provides additional evidence regarding effectiveness of group educational…

Described a project in which students learned to use ordinary discarded cans for use in an art class. (RK)