This article discusses using peer content-area tutoring and strategy instruction to help college students with learning disabilities become self-regulated learners. The instructional model addresses transferring strategies across settings, linking cognitive strategies to the content curriculum, guiding the student to independent strategy use, and…

This paper proposes an instructional model for integrating cognitive strategy instruction and content area instruction when teaching students with learning disabilities in content area classes. In the model, teacher-mediated instructional devices and routines used to teach content area subjects serve as a basis for teaching students to…

This document is a collection of six mathematics lesson plans for use with students with learning disabilities or mild mental retardation. The lesson plans utilize the Essential Elements of Instruction (EEI) 5-Step lesson design model developed by Madeline Hunter. The lesson plans and their authors are as follows: (1) "An EEI Lesson for 1st…

The brain's architecture serves as the basic model for theorizing about how the brain works. Current brain research confirms earlier suspicions that thoughtfulness has a great deal more complexity than the simplistic left/right distinctions of earlier research. This paper draws on the work of Carl Jung to propose the brain-psyche model as an…

Discusses using integrated curriculum as a means of providing for the unique instructional needs of students with disabilities in inclusive classrooms. Models of integrated inclusion, advantages of integrated curriculum, and procedures for integrating independent living skills, social skills, and learning strategies into the curriculum are…

This article explains the Integrated Strategies Instruction Model by analyzing the problems of ineffective writers and presenting instructional techniques for framing, applying, and extending students' understanding of the executive strategy. A vignette from an eighth-grade history classroom illustrates the guidelines. Research regarding the…

Teaming incorporates an ever expanding curriculum, without an overlapping of subjects, by a collaboration of teachers and students learning from one discipline to another. Through the teaming approach to teaching, the child gains from the emotional, motivational, and enrichment of interrelationships of different subject teachers. Stimulation for…

This book applies the foundational elements of the model for teaching and learning called Dimensions of Learning (DoL) to administrative practice. It explores the process of observation for DoL in a comprehensive way. Chapter 2 provides an overview of the key structural elements and group processes that should be in evidence in a school system…

This monograph discusses learning communities in the context of community colleges, presents the challenges and benefits of learning communities, provides examples, and outlines the steps for a community college to follow in initiating a learning community. In part 1, the authors discuss the educational context in which learning communities have…

This book presents teachers with easy-to-use strategies for engaging students in writing about subject area content. These strategies will help students build a rich vocabulary, gain a deeper understanding of concepts, make connections between ideas, and develop organized thinking processes. This updated edition offers: (1) A thorough discussion…

This book (second edition) is an adaptation of Howard Gardener's theory on multiple intelligences (MI). The model in this book provides a language for talking about the inner gifts of so-called learning-disabled children. It describes how to bring Gardner's theory--a means of mapping the broad range of human abilities--into the classroom. The MI…

Argues that evaluation and assessment are essential to both the practical and conceptual aspects of art education. Outlines criteria and guidelines for developing different evaluation methods. Proposes a process model for evaluating students' work. Maintains that all students will enhance their learning if they negotiate the criteria and purposes…

This guide offers a framework for making sound decisions among the range of available choices to maximize the educational opportunities of integrated students with disabilities. The framework permits programs to be classified according to their approaches to intervention and general characteristics. A planning process is presented for use in…

Instructional design as a discipline is currently experiencing rapid expansion on a variety of fronts: theoretical, technological, philosophical, and in the spheres of practice. This book is about changing design theory and practice to meet the challenges of this growth in the particular area of adult learning. The six chapters address the…

This guide offers strategies for working with students with autism in the areas of academic instruction, organization and time management, and social skills. The importance of considering the autistic student's use of language and thinking style is stressed. Chapter 1, "Who Are Higher Functioning Young Adults with Autism?" (Ann Fullerton),…