Teaching with imagery can help students focus on lessons, retain information, improve psychomotor skills, and accept themselves and others. (Author)

Research is reviewed that employs delay procedures with the severely handicapped as a means of shifting stimulus control. The parameters of delay procedures are delineated, including prerequisite student and teacher considerations, types of responses, levels of delay, single versus blocked trials, and basic delay methodology. (Author)

Direct instruction refers to an instructional pattern that stresses teacher directiveness, academic focus, and structured, sequential learning activities. The present study investigated the effectiveness of direct instruction with learning disabled children. (Author/BW)

The author offers teachers suggestions for dealing with hyperactive children in such areas as reducing distractibility, controlling impulsivity, and promoting interpersonal skills and adjustment. (SW)

Hearing impaired children (eight to nine years old) and their teachers used a "feeling wheel" to discuss their feelings, help resolve arguments, and understand others' emotions. The wheel, divided into 16 segments labeled with feelings, helped students discuss how and why they felt a particular way. (CL)

Ethical and unethical coaching behaviors and competition in relation to the teaching/coaching role are explored in three questions: (1) Is there a common ground of competition that teachers of all subjects share? (2) Is there a type of competition peculiar to coaching? and (3) What ethical considerations are called for in coaching competition? (JN)

Discusses specific ways in which agricultural mechanics instructors can improve safety awareness and instill safe-working attitudes in their students. (SK)

The separate stories told by a man and a woman of the end of their relationship form an authentic drama that can be used in teaching culture and civilization. Partial transcripts and examples of discussion questions are provided. (MSE)

Laments the misguided teaching practices used in the teaching of language and literature, practices reflecting unsatisfactory, superficial, and mechanical educational standards. (RL)

This article discusses epilepsy, its treatment, and its effects for teachers who have epileptic students in their classes. Epileptic students must be made to feel that they can participate in all facets of school life. (CJ)

Contends that the teacher, the single most important variable in learning to read, should use introspection to determine how to improve reading instruction. (DD)

Suggests some ways that teachers can establish and maintain appropriate behavior in preschool children in day care centers. (MP)

College students taught a lesson on number theory in a "clear" manner learned more than those taught in an "unclear" or imprecise manner by the same teacher. (Ed.)