Intended for teachers in office education programs and those working with coordinated vocational-academic education programs, this material provides information for adapting the regular classroom, equipment, and curriculum to meet the particular needs of students with special needs. An introduction briefly describes the three major laws…

Approaches the study of failure analysis by examining the mental and physical steps involved in the development of a product to determine where the failure occurred. (CP)

Both students and their mothers became motivated to participate in and react to an art program developed at Oklahoma State University. The program used the mothers as volunteers who were trained to stimulate students' interests in famous art prints. (RK)

This paper summarizes the present state of teaching Ancient History in British schools and sees it as fragmented and incomplete. A macrostructure for study of 16 major interpretive themes is suggested, to be supplemented by theme, and area studies and various specialized approaches. (CHK)

Indicates that integration between mathematics and physics must include cooperation at the planning stage and explains the use of a precedence diagram to reduce the mismatch between the two subjects. (GS)

Criticizes the 'Look and Say' method of teaching reading, asserting that it assumes that most children will learn to read by themselves, that it leaves out those children who need to be taught to read, that it can actually teach a child not to concentrate, that it teaches memory, and that it helps the child to accept his disability. (Author/JM)

In response to an article in a special issue of Manpower (Womanpower, v7 n11 p34-7), home economics education is examined in terms of its relevance to current life styles and roles teachers have in its presentation. (LH)

A plea for a revision of methods used in graduate language programs, particularly Spanish, this article opposes admitting students to graduate programs for the purpose of obtaining teachers or filling up upper-level classes. Highly structured programs should be substituted with individualized, flexible ones. Testing should be revised. (SC)

Curriculum and instruction are not given enough attention at the community college. Instructors usually derive job satisfaction only from their interactions with students, Deans of Instruction often neglect leadership in curriculum and instruction due to other demands on their time, and institutions frequently devise curriculum in response to the…

Assessment is one of the most important part of educational process that directs teaching, learning as well as curriculum development. However, widely used classical assessment techniques such as multiple choice tests are not adequate to provide neither a correct picture of students' performances nor the effectiveness of the teaching process.…

Some of the difficulties of building an interdisciplinary program are discussed, and the experiences of the West Islip School District in New York in building such a program for grades 7-12 are described. (RM)

An alternative model for the 16+ examinations presently being tested by examining boards is suggested which would allow for differing levels of achievement for different student populations. (RM)

The 26 masters for overhead transparencies that make up this collection include quotations, suggestions, and checklists related to teaching bibliographic instruction. Individual masters include definitions of bibliographic instruction; the characteristics of ineffective library users; a checklist for effective teaching techniques; the…

A far-reaching reexamination of teacher education in the United States is underway, stimulated by reform initiatives from within the profession and by criticisms from without. This article raises questions about the place and form of educational psychology in the larger conversation about the thoughtful preparation of teachers. Recent research and…

This paper discusses the development of the mathematical experiences which make up the three-term sequence of mathematics courses taken by participants in the Elementary Mathematics Project (EMP), a longitudinal study of change in preservice teachers' perceptions and beliefs about mathematics. For the mathematics courses, both content and teaching…