Project Quest offers a strong approach to the problem of developing programs aimed at educational leadership in New Jersey. The primary goal of the project is to enhance in this leadership their knowledge of child growth and development, and their feel for, and sensitivity to, appropriate modes of education for young children, as well as pervasive…

The desire to provide high quality instruction to an increasing number of students while maintaining or reducing costs has led to the development of mediated instructional modules. A model is described, which is used to predict the costs of using various alternative media to achieve the same instructional objectives for the same student population…

Composed of articles recently published in "Educational Technology" magazine, this volume in the review series focuses on teacher education and educational technology. Articles are included which cover defining the role of teacher education and of teachers, differentiated staffing, educational accountability, performance contracting,…

One of the primary teaching tasks of an elementary school social studies teacher is that of helping pupils interpret the numerous sources of data found in a social studies program. The purpose of this self-instructional teacher education module is to develop proficiency in utilizing data interpretation process. A sequence of activities is designed…

The model described in this paper for the teaching of beginning shorthand through the use of computer-assisted instruction attempted to prevent incorrect responses from occurring during the acquisition of correct responses to beginning shorthand symbols. (Author)

DEPENDENCY LEARNING, THE ACQUISITION AND DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONAL INTERRELATIONSHIP VALUES, WAS STUDIED AS A TECHNIQUE FOR FOSTERING AUDIOVISUAL ACADEMIC LEARNING AMONG 54 YOUNG, EDUCABLE MENTAL RETARDATES. SOME OF THESE SUBJECTS WERE TAUGHT TO VALUE SIMULATED DEPENDENCY MODELS. THESE MODELS WERE CONSISTENTLY PAIRED WITH SUCH REWARDING STIMULI AS…

This final report describes a project which developed and examined an instructional paradigm and instructional materials for teaching vocational and prevocational curriculum-based concepts to special needs students. The literature is reviewed concerning student characteristics, the learning situation, and concept characteristics as they affect…

The Trust-Conflict Cycle conceptually organizes the tools and skills available to foster positive relationships between teachers and emotionally disturbed students. A menu of intervention tools to help teachers stay within the Trust Cycle and out of the Conflict Cycle includes appropriate responses, stress reduction, self-esteem/worldview,…

Discusses a new computer modelling system and compares a teaching strategy that uses computers to explore exponential decay with a teaching method employing the Cellular Modelling System in which the monitoring of a real experiment and the development of a model representing the experiment are done at the same time. (CW)

A model is described to help writers of English as a second language to clarify and rewrite written work which may be incoherent and, as a result, fail to communicate the writer's intentions. The model's steps include reconstructing the reader-writer interaction, uncovering covert questions, and redrafting. (Author/CB)

Describes how a series of models can be constructed to illustrate the structure of eukaryotic chromosomes, emphasizing the structure of DNA. Suggests that by adapting a different scale for each series of models, a complete picture of the complex nature of the chromosome can be built up. (TW)

This empirically-based model depicts the interactive, constructivist process of reading and three classes of variables that influence reading. Teacher variables include presentation, instructional intervention, instructional climate, and behavior management. Text variables include text language, relevance, organization, story structures, and…

Focuses on how children learn different written registers. Asserts that teachers must immerse children in a variety of texts to experience different registers of language and make explicit the purpose of registers, the role audience plays, and how information is organized in different registers. (MM)

Shows how to help students shape their self-selected writings into reports. In a class of students with learning and/or attitude problems, follows the development of one student's report writing through the processes of clarifying a purpose and audience, generating information with a word map activity, and organizing the information effectively by…

Presents several classroom ideas to help students understand their relationship to and their place in the universe as well as how difficult it would be to find life beyond Earth. Lists activities for children including the "Map Procedure," the "Model Procedure," and "Good Ol' Sol." (CW)