The establishment of a diploma for teaching mathematics to low-achieving students in heralded. The difficulties in and need for such a course are described. (MNS)

This volume provides a motivational scheme which uses consumer education to teach language arts and build self-confidence in low-achieving junior high school students. Seventeen sequences describe strategies for teaching various aspects of consumer education, including definition of the consumer, problems that face consumers (including discussions…

Recommended teaching techniques for instructing disadvantaged students are presented in this manual. A general definition of a disadvantaged student is given in the introduction, followed by a specific listing of characteristics which a student in the State of Virginia should exhibit in order to qualify for a special program for disadvantaged…

Research investigated the relative contributions of team competition and peer group practice sessions to the effectiveness of a classroom instructional technique known as Teams-Games-Tournament. Eight mathematics classes with 240 seventh grade students participated in a ten-week field experiment. A 2x2 design was employed. The factors were (1)…

This guide was developed by the Foreign Language Committee of the Oklahoma Curriculum Improvement Commission, and is designed to be used by teachers of foreign languages. The fifteen chapters include: (1) "Selection of a Foreign Language Text," (2) "Middle School (Exploratory Language Programs)," (3) "Foreign Language in…