The perseverance and agility to be transformative marketing educators have been identified to be critical for the future of marketing education. In developing this observation further, this study conceptualizes the transformative marketing education (TME) concept and defines it. Furthermore, adopting a management educational institution…

While most books on classroom management focus on keeping kids in their seats and giving good directions, here is a breakthrough guide that explains how to lead a class that is differentiated to individual students' needs. The top authority on differentiated instruction, Carol Ann Tomlinson, teams up with educator and consultant Marcia B. Imbeau…

What is Response to Intervention (RTI) and how can it benefit your school? Find out in "RTI Success", an all-in-one resource that provides information on this innovative model as well as step-by-step administrator guidelines and practical teacher tools for implementation. Despite ongoing federal initiatives meant to increase the profile…

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

This book provides practical, research-based guidelines for reading comprehension instruction in grades K-9. The book integrates current research findings with real-life observations of diverse students in action, identifying the strategies that successful readers use to comprehend many different types of materials. It offers recommendations for…

Article provided a systems approach to individualized instruction. (Editor/RK)

Guidelines for establishing and maintaining classroom learning centers are contained in this booklet. The following topics are included: (1) a rationale for creating learning centers; (2) how to orient the children to the new learning center and some important aspects to consider when developing a learning center environment; (3) ways to create…

This coordinator's guide consists of materials for use in implementing four individualized units that have been developed for students enrolled in cooperative part-time training and are employed in a food store. Addressed in the individual units are the following occupations: bagger (DOT No. 920.687-014), cashier-checker (DOT No. 211.462-014), and…

Presents suggestions for helping children gain in spatial abilities. Activities are given which require that students use spatial concepts in order for them to be successful. (Author/SA)

An annotated bibliography approach was used in this report of a literature review/study designed to determine the effectiveness of learning centers in the classroom and to give classroom teachers a carefully planned system to ensure successful use of learning centers. The first section, which explains the rationale of using learning centers in the…

Designed for use in Adult Basic Education (ABE) programs, this curriculum guide contains a skills outline, activities, materials, a bibliography of selected materials, and 343 worksheets dealing with word attack, spelling, reading, and writing skills. The curricular model presented utilizes a minimum essentials approach that passes students…

A junior high school English teacher explains how she managed to teach gifted and talented students in a mixed-ability classroom. She discovered the importance of taking "baby steps" (allowing independent study), varying learning activities, raising the bar for everyone, and discovering her students' passions. (MLH)

This module, one in a series of performance-based teacher education learning packages, focuses on a specific skill that vocational educators need in their role as teacher-coordinators conducting cooperative vocational education programs. The purpose the module is to enable teacher-coordinators to establish the goals, guidelines, and criteria…

This coordinator's guide for a module on waiters and waitresses, one of a series of seven individualized units about restaurant occupations, has been developed for students enrolled in cooperative part-time training and employed in a commercial restaurant. Included in the first part of the guide are a progress chart, suggested teaching procedures,…

This coordinator's guide consists of materials for use in implementing four individualized units that have been developed for students enrolled in cooperative part-time training and are employed in fast food restaurants. Addressed in the individual units are the following occupations: cashier (DOT No. 211.462-010), counter attendant (DOT No.…