Mastering algebra is important for future math and postsecondary success. Educators will find practical recommendations for how to improve algebra instruction in the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) practice guide, "Teaching Strategies for Improving Algebra Knowledge in Middle and High School Students". The methods and examples included in…

Learners are multi-faceted, unique people. Discovering the whole individual is incumbent upon realizing the teaching/learning environments, common social and societal realities, and belief and value systems respective of academic and socio-societal factors that establish who one is as a learner and teacher. In "Learning and Teaching," the authors…

Applies the Lesh Translation Model to develop conceptual understanding by showing relationships between five modes of representation proposed by Lesh to learn multiplication of fractions. Presents five teaching activities based on the translation model. (MDH)

A model of perceptual processing which posits four primary components of perceptual processing (sensory encoding, perceptual integration, memorial classification and retrieval, and cognitive abstraction) is explained to be helpful in identifying the nature of the learning disabled child's perceptual disorders and in designing a remediation…

This article describes five representations and the connections between and among them. It also describes how to use multiple representations to support students' mathematical understanding.

Presents three types of simple events knowledge models: (1) a simple list of events; (2) a list of cause-effect sequences; and (3) a list of events that describe a problem and its solution. (SR)

Defines and describes the processes by which students acquire new knowledge: accretion, tuning, and restructuring. Relates these processes to knowledge models presented in earlier columns. Discusses extension activities. (RS)

Considers event phenomena and how such phenomena might be understood in terms of process knowledge models. Presents the step and stage process knowledge model, the classification process knowledge model, and the conditional process knowledge model. (SR)

Presents a framework that connects concepts such as expert consensus models, target models, intermediate models, preconceptions, learning processes, and natural reasoning skills for thinking about cognitive factors involved in model construction in the classroom. Provides guidance to teachers in the form of instructional principles and reminds…

Explains teaching methods and strategies to increase science learning among 3-6 year old children. (YDS)

Proposes a model for learning and training for intercultural communication competence. Discusses the five levels of the model. Presents five categories of questions to challenge cultural stereotypes. (RS)

Discusses helping students understand cases and classes through knowledge modeling. Discusses classification and human cognition, and classification and pictorial knowledge models. Provides classroom extension activities. (SR)

Identifies 12 roles for medical teachers and groups them into six categories: (1) information provider in the lecture; (2) role-model on the job; (3) facilitator as mentor and for learning; (4) student assessor and curriculum evaluator; (5) curriculum and course planner; and (6) resource material creator. (Contains 84 references.) (Author/YDS)

Focuses on one cognitive strategy, metacognition, and describes the success of this strategy with students of varying ages and abilities. Provides a six-step model for implementing strategy instruction in the classroom. (RS)

Noting that while individuals need opportunities to develop cognitive and symbolic understanding of communication principles and skills, this paper argues that they also need to develop an experiential understanding in order to use those principles and skills in building and enhancing relationships. To accomplish this, the paper offers a…