A program to improve student ability to perform intellectually demanding tasks might reasonably focus on four types of objectives: abilities, methods, knowledge, and attitudes. (Author/MLF)

Defines a rationale for teaching decision-making skills and outlines an eight-step decision-making process. Describes how the process may be applied at all levels, in classrooms, and in dealing with students' personal problems. (Author/KC)

Presents 19 guidelines for developing children's comprehension skills, addressed to elementary teachers and to parents of preschoolers (53 references). (SJL)

The relationship between laws and the values of a society provides an excellent means for applying citizenship education and law-related education to the social studies curriculum. Teaching strategies suggest classroom exercises in citizenship participation. (JN)

Discusses how to recognize volatile situations, cope with the challenge, and reassert control in the training environment. Examined are ways in which hostility is expressed, statements of protest, when hostility triggers fear, coping with fear, ways of responding to hostility, and how to survive hostility. (CT)

Twelve ideas to produce technical training faster, make it longer lasting, and more cost effective are examined. They include performance improvement analysis, cause analysis, observing actual performance, concentrating more on the stimuli, considering alternatives to training, stating terminal behaviors for training programs, and using feedback…

Explains the prerequisites involved in learning critical reading skills and describes some classroom lessons and activities that can build these abilities with all types of adolescent students. (MAI)

A number of activities are outlined for the use of regular playing cards to teach and reinforce certain mathematical skills. (MP)

The use of performance contracts as a method of teaching reading as a social studies skill is discussed. Suggestions are provided for organizing the classroom in order to group students. A guide for teaching reading skills contains a sequenced list of suggested activities to aid students in improving reading skills. (JR)

Discusses the use of hypermedia to accommodate students' individual learning differences and to help students develop complex learning skills to acquire complex knowledge. Examines 10 research studies that investigated interaction between students' learning skills and their use of different forms of instruction. (Author/LRW)

Personal, instructional, and organizational factors help or hinder the transfer of learning from class to job, states the author. He provides 20 ways to improve transfer and maintenance that are designed to keep the retention curve as high as possible. (SK)

Presented are procedures for identifying important first aid skills, developing skill analyses, and teaching the skills. The procedures were successfully used to teach moderately mentally handicapped students to communicate an emergency, administer first aid for minor injuries, apply plastic bandages to minor injuries, and administer first aid for…

Examined influence of training method and trainee age on performance during training in acquisition of computer software skills among 146 adult volunteers. Behavioral modeling training method yielded consistently superior computer software mastery compared with nonmodeling approach. Older trainees exhibited significantly lower performance than did…

Notes the importance of developing listening skills through direct instruction. Identifies specific listening skills and suggests how to teach them. Describes how both teachers and students can develop a listening skills curriculum. (MM)

Four trainers taught communicative gestures to four individuals with severe mental retardation during one-to-one sessions. Preceding each training session, verbal feedback was given with regard to the trainer's performance during the previous session. Delayed feedback was found to result in increased accuracy of training. (Author/JDD)