Discusses the adaptation of music teaching methods and classroom environments for mainstreamed special students. Teachers must identify handicapped students, establish individualized goals for them, and modify the classroom, class activities, and teaching techniques to meet their special needs. The discussion includes the use of behavior…

Provides suggestions for developing classroom environments in which all students can flourish, despite educational handicaps. (MA)

The author suggests that metaphorical physical examples can sometimes help children understand psychological situations, particularly those concerned with limits, more effectively and with less embarrassment than a direct discussion of behavior. One example he gives relates pliability or brittleness in an object to the limit of a person's…

Determines the effect on inquiry of different contingencies of reinforcement. Classes of biology students were exposed to one of four treatments: verbal reinforcement and mimicry; using student ideas as reinforcers; using special privileges as reinforcers; and no reinforcement. Results include verifications that verbal reinforcement and mimicry…

A methodology for designing rating scales which will maximize diagnostic feedback by students to college professors is presented. Mid-semester and end-of-semester administrations allow for judgment of changes in instructional strategies during the semester. (JMF)

Designed for use with emotionally and behaviorally disordered students, the materials presented in the column are intended to meet the developmental needs of the population, prevent or reduce crisis situations, or foster student awareness of alternative ways of handling conflict. (PHR)

In an attempt to make dialog learning in a FLES Spanish class easier, the use of the "integrated story" is suggested that exposes the children to new phrases and sentences of the dialog prior to the formal introduction of the dialog. (NCR)

An observational instrument was used to study the teaching behavior of physical education teachers. Analysis indicated that teachers showed low percentages of positive and negative behavior and high percentages of managing and monitoring behavior. (Author)

Provides practical advice for the caregiver whose group includes children with behavioral disorders. (MP)

Three techniques--the daily report card, contract card, and grade point credit--are described for modifying the tardiness of learning disabled secondary students. (CL)

Teachers' attitudes toward small-group teaching (SGT) as a possible alternative to the traditional presentation-recitation model of teaching is examined including three sources of influence on these attitudes--the behavioral-experimental, the environmental, and the cognitive domain. (JMF)

College students who preferred a highly structured classroom situation but were in a section with low structure had lower mean achievement than had other students. (Editor)

Discusses the concept of the "social drama" and methods for teaching civilization on the basis of authentic texts. A response from the co-author (Pucheu, Rene) of an analysis of the election process in France is appended. (AM)

The study obtained evidence regarding the learning condition of chaining. The experimental population was 22 female industrial education students at the University of Maryland. A major contribution of the study was the recognition of the backward chaining principle (reversed stimulus-response links) as a meaningful teaching technique. (Author/BP)

Comments and suggestions are directed to art educators in colleges, art schools, and universities. Evaluates art teachers and their teaching methods, specifically the rhetorical versus the dialogue approach to teaching art. (Author/RK)