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Jenkins, John M.; Keefe, James W. – NASSP Bulletin, 2001
Discusses and classifies nine strategies for personalizing instruction based on levels of interaction and thoughtfulness: Individualized instruction, accelerated learning, style-based instruction, technology-assisted learning, contract learning, authentic pedagogy, guided practice, cooperative learning, and topic study. (Conatains 11 references.)…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Instruction

Hazel, Elise L. Dell – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1990
Two cooperative learning techniques are presented for achieving carryover of speech and language skills: a speech-language peer homework monitoring system; and a contractual system among the student, the clinician, and the student's class in which group contingencies foster cooperative interactions. (JDD)
Descriptors: Contingency Management, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Homework

Jenkins, John M. – International Journal of Educational Reform, 1998
Personalized instruction focuses specifically on each learner's needs, talents, learning style, interests, and academic background and challenges each learner to progress from one stage to another. This article presents a four-phase continuum of personalized teaching strategies, ranging from behavioral approaches (reinforcement and feedback)…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Behaviorism, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cooperative Learning
Henton, Mary – 1996
This book aims to introduce teachers and other educational practitioners to the concepts, operating principles, and teaching strategies of the adventure in the classroom (AITC) model. Adventure involves more than equipment, risk taking, or the outdoors. Adventure is a matter of significance, support, stimulation, and satisfaction--characteristics…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning