Human services educators must address the issue of students' bias toward older adults to encourage interest and meet the growing need for professionals in the field. The use of literature can challenge students' preconceptions of older adults while innovative teaching methods can guide their development of more tolerant views and introduce them to…

The purpose of this study was to determine if individualized instruction structured by a teaching model which utilized student selected objectives and an instructional guide produced by a computer would change student achievement in physics measured by two methods and affect positively the students' attitudes toward the course of physics. (Editor)

The successful English-as-a-second-language reading teacher must understand the cultural background of her students very well and must take such circumstances into account in the presentation of and the approach to materials. Following a good basic teaching model is equally important. Evaluation of the reading program must consider the students'…

The diagnostic-prescriptive approach to teaching clinically focuses directly on the student. The diagnosis and identification of the strengths and weaknesses of each student, both cognitive and emotional structure, establishes the teaching prescription of instruction. The changed behavior of each student in thinking, feeling, and activity is the…

Professionals as well as parents will find here an argument and model for implementing humanistic education in public schools at all levels. Steming from the Elementary School Teaching Project by the Ford Foundation which found that the student's feelings influence his ability to learn, this book attempts to develop a model which will utilize the…