The backward chaining instructional method, based on behavioral learning principles, offers swimming instructors an alternative to traditional methods of teaching swimming skills by breaking down the skill into a number of tasks or steps and teaching them in reverse sequence. (CB)

The study compared the improvement in computational skills of two similar groups of accounting students, one using calculators in examinations and the other not. Not using calculators seems to improve the arithmetical ability of students, but does not significantly improve students' feel for numbers or ability to solve word problems. (CH)

A program combining classroom and community training in bus-riding skills to developmentaly disabled adults featured slide presentations, role playing, and performance in the natural environment. Test trials showed that all Ss learned necessary bus-riding skills and maintained their performance throughout the follow-up period of at least one year.…

A K-12, comprehensive health program, called Health Skills for Life, was developed over a five-year period in Eugene, Oregon. The program's philosophy and methodology are discussed. (MT)

Cross-country skiing instruction can be done both inside and outside the gymnasium. This article provides activities to be performed inside to prepare students for skiing. Outside organization techniques and drills are suggested. A list of common errors is given. (DF)

Techniques for including reading and writing goals in shorthand homework routines are offered which should provide skillbuilding exercises for students. (TA)

Selected factors of practice promoting typewriting skill are: practice is no guarantee of learning; nonrepetitive practice is better than repetitive; mentally rehearsing a skill task is beneficial; little or no improvement takes place without knowledge of results, and; plateaus in motor skill learning may be indicative of practice limit.…

Described the process of macrame, teaching approaches for macrame, and the materials needed to begin the process. (RK)

Trying to teach a one-handed person to type in the same fashion as a two-handed person is a mistake. Each handicapped person has to adapt to his own capabilities. The writer outlines the stages she went through in learning to type with one hand. (Author/KP)

The author's eight graded simulations are designed to give practice in communication skills--discussing, organizing, interviewing, assessing materials, presenting a case and speaking in public,'--all on the level of adult responsibility. (Author)

The teaching method described in this article involves the typing of a given number of words within a given period of time within a stated error tolerance." (JS)

Article suggests ways by which teachers can systematically improve classroom questioning skills. (Author/MM)

Correlation of a film to a work of literature helps students develop greater sensitivity to each, and a sharper awareness of the relationship between the two. (Author)