A study was undertaken to investigate the effectiveness of live model v videotape presentations in home economics education relative to student achievement and performance. Findings support the feasibility of videotape presentations for the acquisition of knowledge and performances of demonstration and laboratory teaching strategies. (JOW)

The effectiveness of computer aided instruction (CAI) is compared with that of videotaped instruction in the teaching of diacritical markings to postsecondary deaf students. Data indicate that cognitive skills were well taught by CAI in a short time without requiring teacher or student time in class. The TV version did not teach well. (CT)

Preservice training that provides for contact with different kinds of exceptional children as well as for lecture discussions about them was found to have an advantage over training limited to lecture discussions in the realm of attitudes and behavioral intentions, but not in factual knowledge. (SBH)

Tutors and tutor-counselors assist individual students in the Open University. The effects on student's tutors of providing resources to tutor-counselors to offer extra sessions for first-year students who appear to need additional help are reported. (JMF)

Thirty severely multiply handicapped deaf children have been served in an existing school for deaf children. Ongoing assessment is closely integrated with instruction to provide individual sequential programs. Children have one-to-one lessons and group experiences. The program is developed around the Social Learning Curriculum that has as its core…

This discussion of the evaluation of teacher education programs starts with the assumption that the most effective teacher education programs are the ones that produce teachers who are most effective in producing desired changes in pupils. (MM)

Offers experience-based insights on building relationships of trust and respect with hard-to-reach youth. Describes a program, designed for 12- to 14-year olds on juvenile probation, which emphasizes love and respect. Argues for the futility of fixating on problem behaviors and the importance of providing youth a challenging and fun environment.…

Discusses issues in implementing and evaluating an interdisciplinary curriculum. An integrated approach is time-intensive and difficult to evaluate, and requires changing teacher practices and beliefs. (Contains seven references.) (LMI)

Review of claims for the effectiveness of the gentle teaching philosophy with people having severe problem behaviors and mental retardation finds that the methods were unsuccessful with seven of nine individuals. Although more research is needed, the review suggests that gentle teaching cannot be considered an ethically defensible treatment…

Three typical preschoolers were trained as peer tutors for three young children with autism. Tutors used incidental teaching to obtain verbal labels of preferred toys by children with autism. Adult supervision and assistance were faded systematically with resulting maintenance of increased reciprocal interactions. (Author/JDD)

This paper compares first-grade education projects in rural India and Pakistan that have attempted to shift from rote learning of texts to an active, experiential, child-centered approach to literacy learning. Examples of successful approaches and techniques, as well as implications for literacy programs in general, are discussed. (MDM)

"False beginners" are students who are ethnically Chinese but are not native speakers of Chinese, and their mixture in language classes with true beginners is problematic. Merits of an individualized teaching program in elementary Chinese for false beginners offered at Ohio State University is described. (JP)

PEECH (Programing for Early Education of Children with Handicaps) is a center-based program combining child-initiated and teacher-directed activities for children with mild to moderate disabilities, ages 3-5. Results of an evaluative study at the demonstration site and replication sites revealed participants' improvement in receptive and…

Describes how a journalism adviser with 17 years of teaching experience with students from middle- to upper-middle-class neighborhoods turned around a journalism program in a predominantly Hispanic high school. (RS)

Highlights instructional practices in four California newcomer schools designed to address newly arrived immigrant students' instructional needs. Observations of the schools indicated effective instructional practices for that student population were not being used in most of the newcomer classrooms, despite a strong commitment to support and…