This report provides summaries of the projects funded under phase three of the Fund for the Development of Teaching and Learning (FDTL) in England. The FDTL aims to stimulate developments in teaching and learning and to involve institutions in implementing good practice. A total of 33 projects were funded under phase three, at a total cost of 6.8…

This report is an account of a survey entitled, "A Project to Survey the Motion Picture Production Facilities of Selected Colleges and Universities in the United States," which was conducted by the University Film Foundation during the Spring and Fall of 1960, under a contract with the U.S. Office of Education. Reasons for the survey included the…

Discusses a teacher education program in which college students in elementary education learn to teach creative dramatics. (RB)

Describes a program in applied biology in which the simulation of the production of penicillin in a batch fermentor is used as a teaching technique to give students experience before handling a genuine industrial fermentation process. Details are given for the calculation of minimum production cost. (JR)

An experiment designed to evaluate the effectiveness of the native paraprofessional in foreign language instruction indicates significant positive results in language skills and cultural awareness of the target culture. (RL)

The efforts of workers in higher educational institutions are directed toward the elaboration of the theoretical principles of pedagogy in the higher school and toward the formation of a course on the principles of pedagogy of the higher school. (KM)

Describes an outdoor educational program at the University of California Botanical Garden in which children are encouraged to handle the plants and are provided with a taped commentary. By the use of an inquiry method, children learn how the Californian Indians used many of the native plants. (JR)

Describes a program in the Department of Catering at the Polytechnic, Wolverhampton, England, in which a computer has been used by students to analyze and design menus. The teaching method is described, a sample printout is provided, and available computer programs in the dietary series are listed. (JR)

Describes a program in environmental education in which secondary school students and teachers extensively studied the North-eastern region of the United States on a one month camping trip. Details of the budget, suggested personal equipment, and group camping equipment are provided. (JR)

Introduces packaged learning modules in environmental and applied sciences education, general-education courses with emphases on chemistry impact on various institutions, methods of presenting homework solutions by tape cassettes, and experimental approaches to teaching of science for inservice elementary teachers in Vancouver, Canada. (CC)

The underlying philosophies and the teaching methods used in several Israeli mathematics programs for disadvantaged students are explained and described; a study that used a psychological approach concerned with the rehabilitation of the impaired intelligence of disadvantaged children also is discussed. (DT)