Schools play a very significant role in fostering participation and leadership skills and in promoting the way forward to a better future. This article offers a number of strategies which can pave developmental pathways to student leadership. In addition, it analyses the beneficial aspects of such activities in enhancing the competency of students…

A study is reported which evaluated the content of three instructional videotapes designed to impart information and to demonstrate regional (spinal, epidural, and caudal) anesthesia motor skills. Pretest-posttest results demonstrated that the tapes successfully met predetermined criteria. Advantages of the method for medical student instruction…

The learning discovery of youngsters is a do-it-yourself teaching method for clerical, administrative, and accountant trainees at the Bankside House headquarters of the Central Electricity Generating Board's South Eastern Region, London. (Author)

The article discusses the various criteria which should be employed by the teacher using popular recording artists' lyrics for dictation pratice. (Author)

This English textbook aims to determine minimum essentials in language and grammar, to provide methods for making correct form habitual, and to arrange the material so that it may be used in connection with the language work of the pupils outside the language recitation. Exercises, drills, games, and tests are employed. Objective measures of…

The second book in this English textbook series aims to determine minimum essentials in language and grammar, to provide methods for making correct form habitual, and to arrange the material so that it may be used in connection with the language work of the pupils outside the language recitation. Exercises, drills, games, and tests are employed.…

"Management engineered" teacher education is an instructional method designed to assist teachers in the acquisition, maintenence, and improvement of essential knowledge, skills, attributes, and professional competencies which are necessary to function effectively in varied professional roles. The system aims at improving teachers' performances as…

A TENTH-GRADE BIOLOGY CURRICULUM GUIDE IS PRESENTED. THE FOUR UNITS OF STUDY ARE FOUNDATIONS OF LIFE, VARIETY OF LIFE, DISTRIBUTION OF LIFE, AND CONTINUITY OF LIFE. ALSO INCLUDED ARE AN OUTLINE COURSE OF STUDY, A STATEMENT OF COURSE OBJECTIVES, SAFETY RULES AND REGULATIONS, A DESCRIPTION OF FIVE TEACHING METHODS (CLASS DISCUSSION, THE…

READING DEVELOPMENT IS NECESSARY AT ALL LEVELS OF THE STUDENT'S EDUCATION WHETHER HE IS ACHIEVING BEYOND, BEHIND, OR AT GRADE LEVEL. THE VOCABULARY SKILL EXERCISES. DESCRIBED IN THIS GUIDE ARE HELD TO HAVE BEEN ESPECIALLY EFFECTIVE IN THE CLASSROOM. THE TEACHER IS EXPECTED TO ADAPT EXERCISES SUITED TO THE NEEDS OF A PARTICULAR CLASS, IT SHOULD BE…

A 12 WEEK COURSE IN TYPEWRITING WAS PREPARED FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS WHO MET UNIVERSITY LEVEL REQUIREMENTS IN THIS COUNTRY BUT WERE DEFICIENT IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE SKILLS. FIFTEEN EXPERIMENTAL STUDENTS WHO COMPLETED THE COURSE WERE COMPARED WITH A CONTROL GROUP. THE UNIFORMITY OF THE STATISTICAL RESULTS IN FAVOR OF THE EXPERIMENTAL GROUP OVER THE…

THE MAJOR PURPOSE OF TEACHING HANDWRITING IS TO PROVIDE CHILDREN WITH A MEANS OF EXPRESSING THEIR THOUGHTS AND IDEAS. THROUGH THE USE OF APPROPRIATE ACTIVITIES, STUDENTS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ACQUIRE THE NECESSARY SKILLS TO ENABLE THEM TO WRITE EASILY AND LEGIBLY. THIS GUIDE HAS BEEN PREPARED TO AID IN DEVELOPING A SYSTEMATIC PROGRAM TO HELP…

Competition in sport and physical education programs has been used to motivate the learning of skills, increase physical fitness, and to create environments purportedly conducive to the development of desirable personality qualities. However, the way in which competition is conceptualized is of great importance. In direct competition, achievement…

A focus on letter writing in composition classes can eliminate the problem of writing to the teacher as audience, as well as function as a strategy for teaching the elements of rhetoric. Letters in the context of the rhetorical process have historical precedent. In the Middle Ages, because of the necessity for official and ceremonious letters,…

This book is designed as a guide to coaches of girls' teams in basketball and volleyball. It offers suggestions on preparing teams, conditioning athletes, game strategies, and means for developing skills in the sports. A bibliography on each sport is included. (JD)

A program adapting precision teaching in an urban elementary school is described. This program, initiated by the Teacher Corps, was used as an inservice project operating in the classroom. Four major procedural steps are described: (1) the teacher must describe an educational objective in exact terms; (2) pupil performance must be recorded daily…