Describes methods for helping students to overcome their inhibitions in social studies role-playing exercises. Techniques include warm-up exercises, side-coaching, and structured improvisation. (AM)

Three problems occurring as a result of combining separate junior and senior high school bands into a single junior-senior band are discussed. These include (1) range of ability, (2) student apathy, and (3) inhibition of younger students as a result of fear of senior high members of the band. (RM)

Role playing can be used by English teachers to develop student empathy and student insight into literature characters. (JH)

Briefly discusses reasons why some teachers and teacher educators experience computer anxiety and presents eight suggestions for computer workshops that consider the psychological, as well as the intellectual, factors involved. (MBR)

Outlines the criteria which integrated strategies of reticence management must satisfy to be effective and to justify inclusion in a communication curriculum. Describes specific activities aimed at different categories of reticent students. (JMF)

This paper examines shyness--its causes and its impact on children--and presents several strategies based on social learning theory for parents and teachers to help young children overcome shyness. The paper also describes a personal application of these strategies on a young girl. The strategies presented for parents and teachers are: (1) tell…