Artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance teachers' capabilities by sharing control over different parts of learning activities. This is especially true for complex learning activities, such as dynamic learning transitions where students move between individual and collaborative learning in un-planned ways, as the need arises. Yet, few initiatives…

The author believes that when competent teachers are made aware of the individual differences that exist between children, they can, and will, individualize their approach to children. The intent of this book is to aid teachers in developing diagnostic-teaching skills in the service of this belief. Diagnostic teaching is seen as harmonizing the…

A science course at Purdue University requiring students to do a good deal of work on their own at a learning center serves as a basis for discussing the issue of independent study. (LS)

"An early learning program where children are free to select the materials for their own education and where peer teaching is actively promoted." Part of a longer special report available from: Grade Teacher Reprints, 23 Leroy Ave., Darien, Conn. 06820. (No. 91291, 75J) (Author/AP)

Descriptions are given of activities teachers have used successfully in individualizing instruction in the following curriculum areas: (1) art; (2) business; (3) career education; (4) environmental education; (5) foreign language; (6) health; (7) language arts; (8) library; (9) mathematics; (10) music; (11) personal finance; (12) physical…

This study demonstrated how the tenets of positive behavior support could be used to teach an educational activity. Emphasis was placed on the implementation of practical strategies to minimize errors during instruction and maximize positive outcomes. A 9-year-old boy with Asperger syndrome served as the participant, and the skill targeted for…

Modification of mother-child instructional interaction was examined in relation to specific tasks and the age of the child. Thirty-two mothers taught their 6- or 8-year-old children one of two laboratory classification tasks resembling a home or a school activity. The home task involved putting grocery items on shelves in a mock kitchen, and the…

Individualized instruction significantly improves students' pedagogical and motivational outcomes. The study described here sought to characterize tutorial behaviors that could lead to these benefits and to consider why these behaviors should be pedagogically useful. The experiment studied 16 undergraduate and graduate university students learning…

This document offers instructions to trainers on the use of more than 100 learning aids, learning activities, and evaluation techniques that are helpful in working with trainees. The strategies described will be useful not only in trainer/trainee situations (which imply active participation on the part of the trainee) but also in teacher/student…

Describes a teaching strategy using Apple IIe computers in a sequence of individual conferences. Includes asking questions while scrolling through the paper, showing students how to elaborate ideas by entering suggested changes and prompts in capital letters during the conference, and using a spelling checker to prompt revision (e.g., by compiling…

This publication describes classroom activities that teach language arts skills through the use of newspapers and magazines. The activities, which include activities for individuals and for groups, involve students in reading and learning about numerous items in the newspaper, including comics, advertisements, editorials, news stories, and…

Richard Harris questions common assumptions about differentiation. In particular, he encourages teachers to avoid accepting too readily the view that pupils of different abilities must be given different resources or activities. Instead he builds a more complex and inclusive model based on deliberate teacher decisions about where to place the…

The ideas contained in this book provide a sampling the tutor can do in the study center. These activities include: (1) thinking games; (2) reading and language skills; (3) vocabulary building games; (4) math games; (5) spelling practice, games, and additional techniques, and, (6) "fun." The user of the book is advised to: (1) refer all discipline…

Developed by experienced migrant education teachers using several Sight and Sound Program concepts, this volume presents approximately 120 predrafted individual short-term Plan/Records for secondary level students in the subject area of United States history, and step-by-step directions for their use by Oregon resource teachers, secondary…