Describes a systematic instructional process that incorporates the general steps of problem solving to develop a World Wide Web-based independent study course. Highlights include the educational setting, learner characteristics, method of assessment, learning processes, course assignments, interaction between faculty and students, course content,…

Discusses challenges faced by Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) relating to access for nontraditional students, students' study habits, and distance learning. Examines a Web-based course and compares it to a traditional course to determine whether online courses can help minority students access, complete, and remember course…

Presented in this paper is a model of a preservice teachers' course on the use of computers for science and technology instruction. The main goal of the course is to lead the students to realize the potential offered by the medium for instructional purposes and to develop self-confidence. (Author/KR)

A survey of 56 Early Childhood Special Education teacher education programs found that the majority had separate assessment courses with a practicum component. Assessment topics receiving the greatest emphasis were instructional assessment for programing, appropriate assessment procedures, use of observational techniques, and…

This article relates experiences of a sixth grade teacher who taught an undergraduate language arts methods course for a semester and a college faculty member who spent a year observing and teaching language arts methods to inservice teachers in six schools. Both focused on empowering teachers to make curriculum decisions. (IAH)

Examines technology as a social process by exploring social and ethical questions raised by the exploration of technological inventions. Discusses how society channels the work of scientists and engineers through institutions characteristic of society. Includes daily assignments and exam questions. (MVL)

Focuses on the intellectual and political forces that have influenced man's relationship with the environment. Discusses why the use of the environment has occurred as it has, and who benefited from these choices. Concludes with a look at global deforestation. Includes daily assignments and readings. (MVL)

A Northern Kentucky University professor questions the relevance and effectiveness of a required fundamentals of secondary education methods course, and discusses his counteroffensive, which combines lecture, field experience, and post-experience reflection on methods to meet state certification standards. (CB)

Discusses the choices made in a large-scale textbook project concerning the cultural content of a new English course for Moroccan secondary schools, and recommends an idealized procedure for deciding on the cultural content of such courses. (Author/CB)

Explores the development and application of syllabus and textbook design principles in the creation and use of an English-as-a-Second Language textbook that completely replaced the use of a structurally based course in Sri Lankan schools. Course components, the structural and functional syllabus, testing problems, and materials team training are…

Reported are the results of a 1987 survey of U.S. chemical engineering departments on health and safety. Some details of what is being done at the University of Alabama are provided. A syllabus and reading resources for a survey course on safety, health, environmental, and ethical issues are included. (MVL)

Provided is a unit which relates the fulcrum of a lever system and the mean of a distribution of scores. The objective, rationale, two student laboratories, and an evaluation system are outlined. Content background on statistics is offered. (MVL)

Describes a model self-improvement reading course for teachers incorporating the communications model, the skills model, and the sustained silent reading model. Concludes that basic reading skills instruction led to improvement in reading skills and that lesson plans incorporating course objectives were produced. (RS)

Notes that many teachers have pursued the role of death educator without developing the necessary pedagogical competencies. Reviews beneficial resources including: (1) using contemporary literature and journals concerned with death and dying; (2) affiliating with professional associations which promote death education and death-related counseling;…

Maintains that a difficulty in teaching humanities survey courses is coordinating data from the various disciplines of cultural history. Recommends the use of creation stories as "windows" on the cultures of the Egyptians, Mesopotamians, and the Hebrews. Provides an overview of each culture's creation stories and a bibliography of…