Teacher educators are expected to provide preservice special education teachers with extensive knowledge about a variety of topics as well as allowing candidates a chance to engage in higher-level thinking about content. Today, some teacher educators are thinking "outside the box" when it comes to instructional delivery by moving beyond…

Explains a system designed to pinpoint behaviors in children that one may wish to alter and subsequently to produce behavior modifications. (AA)

Precision teaching is a useful tool for individualizing drills on a wide variety of foreign language skills. In 5 to 10 minutes per day, students can systematically practice specific skills in need of improvement. The technique has four major components: (1) a precise means of measuring performance continuously, (2) detailed records on behavior…

Intended for teachers of severely handicapped students, the volume provides suggestions on systematic instruction based on individual assessment and curriculum development with sample detailed instructional sequences included. Explained in introductory chapters are the need for systematic instruction of the severely handicapped, major components…

The elementary learning disabilities classroom curriculum guide is designed to provide individualization through precision teaching and to provide a scope and sequence which permits some skills to be continued throughout the elementary program. A list of performance objectives is provided in each of the following skill areas: cognitive/perceptual…