How learning centers can transform classrooms into interesting, vital environments. (HB)

Available from: Department of Special Education, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608.

The approach presented for teaching the mentally handicapped is an adaptation of Frank Hewett's engineered classroom concept. (CD)

Describes a management plan for thirty individualized learning studios in the general music class. (Editor/RK)

Plenty of subject choices make creative writing personal and successful. (Editor)

This report consists of the descriptions and results of two studies carried out to examine Title I programs in the Newark, New Jersey, public schools. The Sustaining Effects Study focused on two groups of pupils: those who participated in Title I programs for two years (1979 to 1982), and those who received remediation for one year (1979-80) and…

Describes the Anthropology Learning Centers Enrichment Program developed by volunteer parents for children achieving at or above grade level in grades three through six in a Michigan elementary school in the period February-May, 1975. (Author/JM)

Alternative methods for facilitating mastery of reading skills must be provided if instruction is to become differentiated and truly individualized. As part of a study to find alternative methods in reading instruction, 45 fourth graders were pretested for mastery of one skill within the Wisconsin Design for Reading Skill Development, and the 44…

Defining a learning center as a classroom area containing several learning stations where students may work independently with materials which teach, reinforce, or enrich their skills, this guide presents essential considerations for designing such a center. Among the items discussed are scheduling, time management techniques, and record keeping…

Learning centers are student centered. That is, instructional goals are matched to learner needs and desires and student learning is self-paced. Teachers coordinate the learning process while students explore and experiment with learning materials. The learning center has several advantages over the traditional classroom: (1) it is success…

This book is an actual school year's work, written by three teaming, open classroom teachers in grades one, five, and six. It is designed for teachers of grades k-6 who are working right in the classroom with their students, for school administrators involved in curriculum development, and for parents expecting the best tangible results from an…

Describes a new student-centered, activity-oriented, open classroom approach to reading instruction with individualized instruction and continuous progress in reading skills as its major emphases. (Author/DN)

The individualized developmental reading laboratory program described in this monograph was designed to supplement regular reading instruction in grades four and five. Information is provided on the instructional procedures used in the program, with emphasis on instruction given through teacher comments written in individual students' folders.…

A learning center is one area of a classroom that contains a collection of programmed activities and materials which can be used either to teach, reinforce, or enrich a skill or concept, or to provide information. Learning centers are a tool to individualization and can be of types: (1) a skill learning center or (2) an information learning…