Teacher quality, along with the school context, classroom practice, and student mathematics achievement, are the key components in Clarke and Hollingsworth's (2002) model that depicts teachers' professional growth as an ongoing, dynamic, and interactive enterprise. Comfort and preparedness are dispositions that, along with teacher knowledge, are…

Navigating learning, formal or informal, can be overwhelming, confusing, and impersonal. With more options than ever, the process of deciding what, where, and when can be overwhelming to a learner. The concept of Open College at Kaplan University (OC@KU) was to bring organization, purpose, and personalization of learning caused by vast resources…

A rural middle level school had stalled in its third year of a district-wide differentiation initiative. This article describes the way teachers and the leadership team engaged in collaborative practices to put a spotlight on formative assessment. Teachers learned to systematically gather formative assessment data from their students and to use…

Developing teaching practices that meet the needs of Second Language Learners (SLL) calls for models of apprenticeship in which teacher candidates acquire competency on how to create learning spaces where students discover, experience and construct knowledge rather than solely practicing skills. The aforesaid argument has an implication when…

The N. J. State Department of Education and NJEA have been cooperating in an effort to clarify many aspects of mainstreaming for schools. This article provided a dialogue combining both points of view. (Author/RK)

Described in this article are curriculum patterns for secretarial practice, clerical practice, business practice, intensified clerical practice, and on-the-job training. (JS)

Universal Design for Instruction (UDI) allows educators to provide accessible education on the basis of individual learner needs. This article describes strategies for applying principles of UDI to rehabilitation education as well as an overview of its history and philosophy. Illustrative examples as well as supportive literature germane to the…

Learning stations are the basis of a "plan-for-each-child" programs. Whole-class and group instruction are part of the plan. (Editor)

Describes an individualized reading program in which teaching methods are selected on the basis of each student's needs. (RB)

Competency-based educational programs are here to stay. Here the author describes the program underway in his school system. (Editor/RK)

Florida's individualized competency-based vocational education program stresses variety in learning experiences to accommodate individual student differences in learning. The author describes sequence of instruction and techniques to help the teacher facilitate learning. (MF)

Training techniques available for school counselors which can be utilized in working with regular classroom teachers, special education teachers, placement committee staffings and in the liaison role currently emerging are described. The materials presented address the following areas of concern: (1) recent trends in special education programming,…