Coteaching is becoming a common practice in secondary classrooms as a way to provide special education services to students with disabilities (SWD). Effective coteaching supports an inclusive philosophy of schooling by creating appropriate learning spaces for diverse learners, allowing learners access to general education curricula, building a…

In this article we expand the scope of school-university partnerships to include a community partner. This study involved an afterschool tutoring program known as the Discovery Center (pseudonym) partnering with a university reading class. This partnership, which is in its sixth year of implementation, prepares teacher candidates in the area of…

Six types of instructional grouping for mathematics teaching are discussed: self-contained classroom, large group, small group, laboratory, independent study, and tutorial. Special sections on team teaching, individualizing instruction, and scheduling are included. (LS)

This booklet systematizes some of the schemes and approaches to individualized instruction so that educators who desire to move toward more individualized approaches will be able to consider a range of alternatives. The following will be examined: two major method of individualizing instruction (individualizing instructional ends and…

This review analyzes literature dealing with attempts to modify traditional organizational features of educational systems. These attempts involve: (1) different approaches to instruction; (2) alterations in time scheduling; and (3) new organizational forms, such as the middle school. A 156-item bibliography of relevant literature is included. (RA)

This book is a descriptive compilation of various innovative practices adopted by the schools associated with the Educational Research Council of America. The program descriptions are presented in alphabetical order by school district and then by schools within these districts. The index provides an alphabetical listing by specific type of…

A paramount objective of the middle school is to further the self-development of its students in the several academic disciplines, study skills, problem analysis, and problem solving areas. The curricula content is determined by students and the professional staff members working with them. Emphasis is on individual growth with student involvement…

This report contains addresses and symposium discussions presented at the conference on teacher competence for the middle school years (fifth or sixth through eighth grades) which was attended by about 100 educators for various levels and positions. The foreword lists three questions posed by emergence of the middle school movement which the…

The rapid growth of the middle school has necessitated the formation of a new teacher education program. Until the present time, the middle school teacher has received in-service training at the elementary and secondary levels. This method has proved to be inadequate and a preservice education program that is neither elementary nor secondary has…

Considers nine fantasies which have grown up around flexible scheduling and suggests six advantages of the system; a paper presented at annual convention of National Council of Teachers of English (Atlanta, November 27, 1970). (Editor/RD)

Summarizes findings of a middle schools study. The middle school movement keeps growing, but schools do not always follow the accepted model and philosophy. (Author)

Describes a middle school science programs in which the administrative organization permits flexible scheduling, interdisciplinary team teaching, and individualized instruction. (JR)

Elementary, middle, and high school teachers and principals indicated their amount of agreement or disagreement as to the educational effectiveness of the innovative practices of nongradedness, team teaching, flexible scheduling, individualized instruction, and open space classrooms. Significantly higher mean scores were obtained by elementary and…

The fourth of seven modules on team teaching, this document deals with grouping children for instruction, in order that teachers may understand the purposes of grouping, the various kinds of grouping, the variables to be considered in choosing a method, the ways grouping can facilitate individualized instruction, and the need for a flexible…

The blending of technology with teaching has permitted the introduction of individualized instruction for the total student body at Marshall High School, Portland, Oregon. In conjunction with the School of Education at Stanford University, a computerized modular-flexible schedule was made operational and put to use in September 1963. Prior to…