This report consists of a classification of elementary school age children and information concerning an Educational Grouping Questionnaire, which is designed to help the classroom teacher group her students. (See TM 001 368 for example of questionnaire; see TM 001 363 for summary of report; for other related documents, see TM 001 160, 364-366,…

This questionnaire is intended to help the classroom teacher group her children more effectively. The teacher must fill out the questionnaire for each child. It consists of 12 questions with four possible responses for each. Questionnaire results will show a pattern of responses for most children. The questionnaire is scored by computer. (See TM…

This is an individually administered test designed as an aid in placing Kindergarten children in an appropriate developmental curriculum sequence, and in determining at what level to begin instruction. The test covers motor development, auditory perception, visual perception, and language development. Test materials consist of an administrator's…

Project LEM (Learning Experience Module), funded under Title III, Elementary Secondary Education Act, incorporates concepts of an open elementary educational plan, featuring: multi-age, multi-ethnic groupings, individually prescribed instructions, a "core" curriculum, differentiated staffing, and maximum space utilization. These…

The manual explains how to plan, implement, and evaluate an alternative learning resource center approach to mainstreaming for elementary school students classified as educable mentally retarded, perceptually impaired, or neurologically impaired. (It is noted that a 3-year learning center demonstration project, funded under Title III, was…

Funded in part by Elementary Secondary Education Act Title III funds and in part by the Atlanta, Georgia School System, Project Success Environment is now in Year Two of a three year program. A teaching technique of three components--a reinforcement system, a special classroom arrangement, and a success curriculum--the project premised that if…

The educational park environment that the District of Columbia schools are planning is seen as a learning environment consisting of a cluster of facilities, services, technological resources, and staff, and operating within a flexible administrative structure conceived and designed to optimize the advantages of the economies of size. The study,…

An ESEA Title III project in language arts, this program emphasizes instruction tailored to the individual learner's needs. In the fall of 1974, Southside Elementary School, Crestview, Florida, adopted the program which is described and evaluated in this paper. Program components include team teaching in an open space classroom; the use of…

Two hundred first grade children participated in an experimental program involving innovative curricula and instructional techniques. A pretest-posttest method of instruction, employing sequenced and structured learning activities, enabled each child to progress at an individual rate and was supplemented by a readiness program. Evaluation of the…