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Lydon, Mary C.; Cheffers, John T. F. – 1978
Questions relating to decision making and its relatonship to body coordination and self-concept in the elementary school child are investigated in this study. The independent variable of teacher behavior was manipulated in order to provide two related learning environments. One, termed Vertical Teaching, required the teacher to retain all of the…
Descriptors: Achievement, Decision Making, Elementary Education, Learning Processes
Meeks, Particia; And Others – 1969
This communications curriculum guide is designed to humanize the teaching of English through a "media ecology" approach which means bringing into the classroom the media of the outside world and expanding the traditional content of English instruction to include such studies as movie-making and message-sending via posters. It contains 70 short…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Curriculum Guides, Diachronic Linguistics, Elementary Education
Keane, Francis J. – 1978
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of a teacher-directed model (TDM) and a decision-sharing model (DSM) of instruction on the development of body-concept and reduction of anxiety in elementary-age children. The treatment groups consisted of 99 public school children, grades three and four, who participated in either a movement…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavioral Science Research, Body Image, Classroom Techniques
Weinstein, Gerald, Ed.; Fantini, Mario D., Ed. – 1970
Professionals as well as parents will find here an argument and model for implementing humanistic education in public schools at all levels. Steming from the Elementary School Teaching Project by the Ford Foundation which found that the student's feelings influence his ability to learn, this book attempts to develop a model which will utilize the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Affective Behavior, Affective Objectives, Behavioral Objectives
Sullivan, Emilie P. – 1996
Children who are "at risk" are differentiated by their difficulty meeting standards for school success. This paper describes a model for a field-based component of an elementary education children's literature course involving in-school tutoring of at risk children. The program provided preservice teachers the opportunity to: (1) develop…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Classroom Techniques, Cooperating Teachers, Cross Age Teaching