Guidelines and modifications which have proved helpful when working with handicapped students in industrial arts programs are presented based on the experience of the Human Resources Center (New York), a private nonprofit organization which has offered vocational training to numerous severely handicapped students for fifteen years. (BM)

The availability of audiovisual equipment offers teachers a wide choice of teaching tools and increases the importance of careful instructional planning. This paper addresses the responsibility of teacher educators for teaching not only the use and selection of these resources, but also basic instructional design. A brief synopsis of the…

THE AUDIOLINGUAL APPROACH IS THE SUBJECT OF THE THIRD PART OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE'S REPORT ON FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN WHICH SUCH TOPICS AS AIMS, TESTING, AND METHODS ARE DISCUSSED IN THE FORM OF BRIEF ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. SOME MODIFICATIONS OF THE AUDIOLINGUAL METHOD ARE SUGGESTED AS POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS THAT ARISE WITH THIS APPROACH,…

Advantages and limitations are presented regarding the training and education potential for video communications in industry (particularly closed-circuit television), and some requirements for planning and application are also listed. (MF)

Describes three instructional approaches in adult basic education: a class in which retired coal miners recorded their experiences in early coal mining camps; a telephone-based instructional system using "Teleteacher" specially designed and built machines; and an approach to ABE in New York emphasizing adult functional literacy, Project…

THIS EXPERIMENT IN THE ETV PROJECT SHOWED THE SUPERIORITY OF PUPIL PRACTICE AS A TEACHING METHOD AND STUDIED THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE UTILIZATION VOLUNTEER (A PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEER CONCERNED WITH IMPLEMENTING ETV IN THE SCHOOLS) IN DIFFERENT SITUATIONS. THREE TREATMENTS WERE ARRANGED--(1) ACTIVE PUPIL PRACTICE WHERE BROADCASTS WERE COMBINED WITH…

The Instructional Technology Course for Teachers (ITCT) is a 15-week course to provide practicing teachers with an introduction to the use of technology in instruction. It can be used either in colleges or in school system in-service programs. The ITCT curriculum is composed of eight self-contained units of instruction, which can be put together…

This twenty-fifth in a series of twenty-nine learning modules on instructional execution is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers help in developing the competencies needed to operate film equipment and to use films in presenting information in the classroom or laboratory. The terminal objective for the module is to…

This twenty-third in a series of twenty-nine learning modules on instructional execution is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers help in operating overhead and opaque project equipment and in using overhead and opaque materials to present information in the classroom or laboratory. The terminal objective for the module…

This twenty-sixth in a series of twenty-nine learning modules on instructional execution is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers help in developing the competencies needed to operate record players and tape recorders and to use this equipment effectively in presenting information. The terminal objective for the module…