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Diller, Debbie – Stenhouse Publishers, 2007
In her previous books, "Literacy Work Stations and Practice with Purpose," Debbie Diller showed teachers how to productively occupy the "rest of the class" while meeting with small groups. Now Debbie turns her attention to the groups themselves and the teacher's role in small-group instruction. "Making the Most of Small Groups" grapples with…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Small Group Instruction, Individualized Instruction, Elementary School Students
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Glazer, Susan M. – Reading World, 1978
Presents an approach to an individualized methods course in the teaching of reading that includes goals for both knowledge and performance, the development of modules or learning packets, and ways of testing and checking comprehension. Offers suggestions for organizing the course. (JM)
Descriptors: Class Organization, Educational Objectives, Higher Education, Individualized Instruction
Owoc, Paul, Ed. – Reporting on Reading, 1979
Focusing on class organization, this publication reports on ideas that might improve reading skills by providing better opportunities for all children. The various articles deal with the use of reading consultants in classrooms as an alternative to "pull-out" reading programs, flexible grouping for individualized instruction, and reading…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Classification, Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Instruction
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Smith, Susan J. – 1977
Before they attempt to organize their classrooms to meet varying student needs, secondary teachers should establish a comprehensive framework for their instructional program, based on a diagnostic plan and on an instructional plan. Many different organizational strategies have been found successful by secondary teachers, both for teaching reading…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Classroom Design, Classroom Techniques, Content Area Reading
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Reading Education. – 1974
Developed and coordinated by the Bureau of Reading Education of the New York State Education Department, Project Alert is a statewide inservice program to facilitate instituting or improving the diagnostic-prescriptive approach to reading instruction. As part of this program, a reading resource kit was prepared by the bureau to give structure and…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
Tomlinson, Louise M. – 1985
Theorists and researchers have indicated that the Group Oral Review (GOR) provides valuable classroom interaction. Some objectives of the GOR approach to reading (for developmental studies reading students) are as follows: to reinforce the process used in a reading assignment, to aid development of metacognitive awareness, to emphasize the idea…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Class Organization, Classroom Communication, Course Organization
Figurel, J. Allen, Ed. – 1966
This book is the first and largest volume of a three-part work that constitutes the proceedings of the 1966 International Reading Association conference. The papers in this book represent broad viewpoints of reading at all instructional levels and are presented in the following sections: the presidential address and other major addresses, ten…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Conference Reports, Corrective Reading, Curriculum Development
Emmer, Edmund T. – 1984
A variety of methods can be used for instructing classes having highly heterogeneous students, including individualization of instruction, homogeneous grouping, team teaching, and modifying whole-class instruction. Through classroom observations and teacher interviews, the prevalence of such methods in 32 second- and third-grade classrooms were…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Class Organization
Figurel, J. Allen, Ed. – 1964
This book anthologizes the papers presented and discussed at the 1964 International Reading Association convention, focusing on reading improvement through classroom practice. The book is divided into the following five parts: featured addresses; a discussion of current concerns in reading by leading authorities in the field; papers on 12 aspects…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Class Organization, Conference Reports, Content Area Reading
Noli, Pamala Morgan – 1980
Recent research by Smith and Glass indicates that academic achievement is often correlated with class size. Findings from the Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study suggest that teachers can do a better job with smaller classes partly because they are able to individualize instruction. Yet the possibility of reducing class size significantly is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Organization, Class Size, Disabilities