This report gives details of an inservice program designed to help teachers learn and understand the Mathematics Continuous Progress-Skill Mastery Program and Management System in Chicago schools. The program consists of locally-developed curriculum guides and behavioral objectives, criterion-reference tests, and mastery record key-sort cards.…

The practicum is the creation of a course orientation module for a new introductory English design. The module explains the course topics, the requirements, and the learning settings. Requirements call for specific skill levels in reading, writing, and discussion. Students will be learning in conference, in the community, in small groups, and in…

In this article, the authors explore the notion of difficulty and the vital role it can play in the learning journey of student teachers, both with respect to their own and their students' educational maturation. Confronting today's popular but flawed American reductionist learning models, the authors explicate the opportunity for deeper learning…

This article reports on a study which examines open corridor structures and processes for teachers' curricular decision-making. Discussions of sample interviews and classroom observations are included. (Author/EB)

Results are described for the first two phases of a study to develop and evaluate models of student progress in a technical training course being offered in a computer managed instructional environment at Lowry Air Force Base, Colorado. Several categories of models were developed in Phase I and defined by model type and by the type of variables…