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Using Photographic Images to Enhance Conceptual Development in Situations of Proportion
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Hilton, Annette; Hilton, Geoff; Dole, Shelley; Goos, Merrilyn – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2015
Find out how to use photographic images to support the conceptual development of proportional thinking. This paper provides insight into a sequenced activity that promotes student engagement and makes links to familiar and unfamiliar contexts.
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Photography, Concept Formation, Mathematical Concepts
The Merry-Go-Round Model: Reconciling Principles of Modern Language Teaching with the Administrative and Economic Realities of Degree Courses at Tertiary Institutions.
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Kutash, Gary – Babel: Journal of the Australian Modern Language Teachers' Associations, 1990
Discusses a new language curriculum model called the "merry-go-round model," which involves the use of levels rather than courses. By emphasizing skill acquisition rather than course completion, this system allows individual progression and groups students according to their level of skill development. Assessment in this program is…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Language Acquisition, Language Proficiency, Language Skills
A Successful Program to Improve Student Performance.
Turnbaugh, Roy C. – 1984
This paper describes and reports results of a program aimed at improving performance of all students, K-12, through a program of sequenced objectives monitored with criterion-referenced tests. Target curriculum areas were mathematics, reading, and language skills. Nationally normed achievement tests were administered in a base year and each year…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests
Reading Program--Remedial, Integrated, and Innovative.
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Butler, Susan R. – Annals of Dyslexia, 1991
The Reading Assistance Tutorial (R.A.T.) Pack is a systematic, multidisciplinary remedial reading program incorporating listening, speaking, seeing, writing, thinking, and comprehension skills. The sequenced activities demand a high percentage of on-task behavior and train phonological processing strategies and functional language use. Research…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Materials, Integrated Activities