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Feasley, Charles E. – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 1979
Merges the following into a model: various writer's refinements to systematic instructional design and development and the author's practical experience. There are four phases: competency identification, overall design, production, and evaluation, each of which is broken into a series of steps for thinking and doing. (Author/JEG)
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Course Organization, Evaluation Methods, Instructional Design
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Jitendra, Asha; Kameenui, Edward J. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1994
This article provides a framework for selecting and analyzing an effective language curriculum, based on 11 design-of-instruction criteria such as specification of the objective, number of practice activities, and review in subsequent lessons. The 11 criteria are discussed within the context of analyzing a sample lesson selected from a basal…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Curriculum Evaluation, Early Childhood Education, Evaluation Criteria
Shaw, Stan F.; Scott, Sally S.; McGuire, Joan M. – 2001
This digest summarizes the issues involved in the instruction of college students with learning disabilities and offers a practical approach to teaching these students. It notes first that disability law at the college level is not as prescriptive as that for the elementary secondary level. Since the instructional climate in higher education is…
Descriptors: College Students, Compliance (Legal), Educational Principles, Higher Education
Sheridan, Margaret K.; And Others – 1995
This book presents the theory and application of the Supportive Play Model (SPM), an intervention approach that incorporates best practices of the therapeutic, educational, and mental health fields. The model provides a systematic process for observing and understanding the play and development of young children with special needs and a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Observation Techniques, Decision Making, Disabilities
Eisenberg, Michael B.; Berkowitz, Robert E. – 2000
This companion volume to a previous work focusing on the Big6 Approach in elementary schools provides secondary school classroom teachers, teacher-librarians, and technology teachers with the background and tools necessary to implement an integrated Big6 program. The first part of this book explains the Big6 approach and the rationale behind it.…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, High Schools
Mueller, Richard J. – 1991
The theoretical model of a good teacher has evolved through three stages: (1) the subject-matter model, which was predominant in the 19th century and through the 1930s; (2) the trait-factor model, which accompanied the "baby boom" era of the 1950s and 1960s; and (3) the instructional design model, whose development paralleled the emergence of the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Berkowitz, Bob; Berkowitz, Joyce – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1987
Presents a model of instruction in which media specialists, in cooperation with teachers, go beyond teaching library skills and work with students to develop critical thinking and information use skills. (CLB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Utilization
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Marland, P. W.; Store, R. E. – Distance Education, 1982
Examines some traditional instructional strategies used to improve textual materials for learning at a distance, including advance organizers, overviews, pretests, objectives, and inserted questions, together with devices in typography and graphics. Research in each area is reviewed and guidelines are given for using each strategy. An extensive…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Behavioral Objectives, Educational Strategies, Guidelines
O'Brien, Martin; Rugen, Leah – Center for Collaborative Education, 2001
The purpose of this guide is to provide a middle school literacy model, to describe practices and strategies of literacy education, and to assist school communities as they implement a balanced Turning Points literacy program that is responsive to the particular needs of middle school students. This guide includes: (1) the rationale for a Turning…
Descriptors: Literacy, Middle Schools, Educational Practices, Educational Strategies
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Tucker, David L.; Bakken, Jeffrey P. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2000
Discussion of reading assessment of students with learning disabilities considers theoretical models of reading, curriculum-based assessment, and miscue analysis. A comparison of the reading strategies of two second-grade readers using miscue analysis is detailed. Emphasis is on instructionally relevant student assessment. (Contains seven…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods
Perry, Jim – Performance and Instruction, 1994
The Socratic method of teaching, which uses open-ended questions asked in a logical sequence, is discussed. Suggestions for structuring curriculum content around seven adult learning principles and Socratic process analysis systems for student motivation are included. (SLW)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Curriculum Development, Discovery Learning, Industrial Training
VanTassel-Baska, Joyce – 2002
This text on curriculum planning and instructional design for gifted students is based on a planning model and an instructional model. The planning model acknowledges the important roles of curriculum planners, of task analysis, and of the educational climate of a school. The instructional model emphasizes the characteristics of gifted learners,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Philosophy
Kame'enui, Edward J.; Simmons, Deborah C. – 1999
This book offers guidelines for designing the cognitive supports to instructional materials for students with disabilities in general education classrooms. Chapter 1, an introduction, describes the contexts of change, including the changing demography of learners, which has increased the curricular and instructional complexity that teachers face…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Beginning Reading, Curriculum Development, Disabilities
Richey, Rita – 1992
Instructional design as a discipline is currently experiencing rapid expansion on a variety of fronts: theoretical, technological, philosophical, and in the spheres of practice. This book is about changing design theory and practice to meet the challenges of this growth in the particular area of adult learning. The six chapters address the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adults, Industrial Training, Instructional Design
Coballes-Vega, Carmen; Walters, Joel – 1979
Spatial and temporal factors in the bilingual classroom that can be manipulated to maximize the bilingualism of Spanish-speaking elementary school children (that is, to minimize their lexical code switching) are presented in terms of models. The advantages and disadvantages of the dual language teaching model are compared to those of two…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Check Lists, Classroom Communication