Presents nine properties of a mathematics lesson to help preservice and inservice mathematics teachers become proficient lesson planners. Illustrates how these properties can fit into a cognitive developmental framework to improve lesson planning. (21 references) (MDH)

This manual is intended for use by teachers using the Project Success Enrichment (PSE) program to teach language arts to elementary school students. An introduction outlines the teacher training component of the PSE, the language arts organizational model used, the curriculum sequence, and definitions of different types of expository writing. The…

This manual is intended for teachers using the Project Success Enrichment (PSE) program to teach language arts to gifted and typical elementary school students. Following an introduction that outlines the purposes and objectives set forth in the Project Success Enrichment: Language Arts Introductory Unit, this component focuses on the short story…

Presents a learning model for science education and describes teacher interventions derived from the model to produce cognitive restructuring. Demonstrates how teacher interventions may be developed through a series of interventions, related activities, and comments. (MDH)

Describes journal writing as an element of multimodal teaching. Discusses how students utilize journal writing that includes pictures, numbers, symbols, and manipulatives to help understand mathematical concepts. Provides a form to evaluate students' portfolio writing and examples of students' evaluated work. (Contains 12 references.) (MDH)

The Child Development Program at John Adams School in North Brunswick, New Jersey, was designed to be an immediate intervention for children with learning problems in the early elementary grades. This two-volume guide describes the work done in the program and how the program can be replicated. The first book details characteristics of the…