Suggests a model which would enable counselor and teacher to become partners with child in helping him to improve his social learning. (Author/CJ)

Literature indicating a correlation between age/grade of students and spurt and plateau periods of brain growth is reviewed. Suggestions for teachers based on the review are provided. These include indexing learning and behavior events to brain growth spurt/plateau periods, using spurt times to introduce novel intellectual materials, and others.…

The study, involving 115 educable mentally retarded (EMR) children (11 to 16 years old), was designed to analyze the kind of reasoning the children used in the A. Haines and M. Jackson study to motivate their resistance responses. (Author/SW)

Examines and illustrates a teaching method which corrects one-shot thinking and teaches remedial students to think in careful, sequential steps using diagrams and visual aids. Contrasts the method to Skinner's concept of shaping. Reviews study results showing that students exposed to the method demonstrated improvements in reading, achievement…

The method presented provides a systematic approach for communicating information about interrelationships between concepts taught in a psychology course. Students who did not receive the information through traditional instructional methods received enhanced scores on tests of structural understanding. Five references are listed. (MER)

Indicates that within the limits imposed by a one-to-one setting, children taught words by either of two segmented methods performed better in initial learning and transfer than did those children who were given only practice in reading unsegmented words. (FL)

Focuses on the role of the grammatical explanation in second language teaching. Its function and presentation is a complex issue among the various teaching methods, and the teacher's decision to use it depends on learners' needs. Recommendations are made for matching appropriate types of grammatical presentation to the student population. (PJM)

Presents research findings that provide the basis for describing copying as a cognitive task, and suggests an approach to instruction and learning that is consistent with this view. (Author/MP)

The effect of focused or preorganized instruction on the mental operations of 64 learning disabled (LD) children (8 to 12 years old) was examined. Results indicated focused instruction had a positive effect on cognitive functioning. (Author)

Forty children of different ages responded individually to cartoon drawing in one of two orders of presentation in order to investigate children's understanding of recursive thinking. Five boys and five girls in each of the age ranges five to six, six to seven, seven to eight, and eight to nine served as subjects. (MP)

Intermediate students scored better on reading comprehension tests when questions on content were interspersed in the text. (JD)

Describes the Lozanov Method and recommends it as a source of renewal for the language teacher. (AM)

Discusses the dichotomy between rational and nonrational learning processes, arguing for an integration of both. Reviews information processing theory and related learning strategies. Presents a model instructional strategy that fully integrates rational and nonrational processes. Describes implications for teaching and learning of the learning…