The saying "Good teaching is good teaching" holds considerable truth when thinking about exemplary practices used in educating students who are deaf. Some adaptations not withstanding, educating deaf or hearing students well should mean engaging in similar pedagogical practices that link language-learning with content-learning. All students, deaf…

A report recently released by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) promotes the use of technology in colleges of education. To respond to the professional call, several teacher education programs have been offering computer courses to help the future teachers. This research examined one of the computer courses, an…

This technical assistance paper is designed to provide local adult vocational education administrators and teachers in Florida with information to implement the Vocational Preparatory Instruction (VPI) programs more effectively and in compliance with the VPI curriculum frameworks. Developed by practitioners in the state of Florida, the curriculum…

This paper reports on two key elements of successful online teaching: learner-centric design and harmonization of content and facilities. The paper shows how these two crucial requirements could be fulfilled with great success in a project that involves a non-computing related subject matter (civil engineering) and 31 educators from five European…

That which legislation many times fails to accomplish with adults, organized public education achieves through children. There is no better way, and perhaps no other way, to save the Nation's natural resources from three centuries of ruthless exploitation than by a program of adequate instruction in the Nation's schools. Children cannot begin too…

The fifteen critical steps involved in writing instructional programs are described, along with an example. (MS)

Author was concerned with the quality of educative dialogue between students and their teachers. He described six inner city types of students as well as the myriad of problems facing the urban/ghetto teacher. (RK)

Significantly more positive attitude toward subject matter of instruction was associated with the use of the criterion-referenced measure than with the norm-referenced measure; differences in attitude toward mode of instruction were not significant. (Author)

Program infusion, unit of study and separate course approaches to population education are discussed. Springboards" are though provoking materials which motivate students into conducting an inquiry on the subject. Teacher questioning techniques are illustrated. (VW)

Describes a two-quarter sequence of graduate courses in numerical methods and modeling for chemical engineers. Rationale, course content, methodology, topic development, and such course requirements as homework and design projects are considered. Emphasis is placed on the treatment of numerical methods implemented in commercial software. (JM)

The philosophy underlying a British project that helps teachers apply systematic inquiry to their own teaching is explained. An example of using the teacher-researcher approach to improve teaching in a humanities course is given. (PP)

Results of a survey of 10 universities in the United Kingdom to determine the nature of course structures and methods of teaching in first-year economics courses are reported. (Author/RM)