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Sturts, Jill R.; Mowatt, Rasul A. – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2012
Pedagogically, the term "bottleneck" refers to a moment when students may face barriers to understanding content in the process of learning. As instructors identify "bottlenecks" within their courses, they are faced with the challenge of how to best assist students in overcoming them. Further, most instructors want to know what selected teaching…
Descriptors: Evidence, Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Barriers
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Knight, Jim – Preventing School Failure, 1993
Humber College (Ontario) adapted a learning strategies intervention model which emphasized sentence, paragraph, and theme writing and error monitoring. Stages include pretest, describing, modeling, verbal practice, controlled practice and feedback, college-level practice and feedback, posttest, and generalization. Implementation and evaluation of…
Descriptors: College Programs, College Students, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
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Stein, Marcy; Carnine, Douglas; Dixon, Robert – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1998
Outlines the instructional design principles underlying the Direct Instruction Model and applies these principles to a variety of content areas. Urges the integration of curriculum design principles with effective teaching practices. Also offers criteria for evaluating and selecting curriculum materials based on direct instruction principles.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Principles, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Design
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Rojewski, Jay W.; Schell, John W. – Remedial and Special Education (RASE), 1994
Cognitive apprenticeship emphasizes a combination of authentic problem-solving experiences with expert guidance in lieu of decontextualized instruction. This article examines issues in cognitive science and describes a model of cognitive apprenticeship for providing academic instruction to students with special learning needs. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Restructuring, Critical Thinking, Disabilities, Educational Methods
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Caine, Renate Nummela – Educational Leadership, 2000
At a new charter school serving predominantly defiant underachievers and special-needs students, a psychology teacher was challenged to implement founders' brain-based principles. She succeeded by establishing a climate of relaxed alertness, immersing students in meaningful experiences, and guiding them in processing their experiences. (MLH)
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Brain, Charter Schools, Classroom Environment
Arizona Univ., Tucson. Coll. of Education. – 1999
This final report describes activities and accomplishments of Project RIME (Reading Instructional Methods of Efficacy), a 3-year project to develop, field test, and disseminate a model of professional development for early elementary and special education teachers focusing on methods for teaching early reading and spelling to children at risk for…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Levine, Suzanne Sosna – 1997
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…
Descriptors: Child Development, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development, Developmentally Appropriate Practices