The best techniques of individualized instruction have been utilized in the development of the program in this new middle school. Team teaching will provide for large and small group instruction plus opportunities for independent study. The teacher teams will utilize both the horizontal and vertical organizational approach. Diagrams of the…

This book attempts to give a new dimension to James Moffett's philosophy on using drama combined with the small group process as the primary basis for the teaching of language arts. The main goal of the book, therefore, is to provide the teacher with practical, proven ideas and techniques for individualizing the language arts. The first section,…

The project's objectives were to increase achievement in mathematics, alter behavior in mathematics classes, and alter attitudes toward small-group work through training in small-group dynamics. The subjects were 85 10th grade geometry students assigned to one of two class periods (morning or afternoon). Within each class period, the students were…

Learning Counseling, a special, small-group type of academically oriented counseling for underachieving high school students, counseled 819 students in the Pittsburgh Public schools during 1969-1971. Materials to train teachers to become Learning Counselors were developed: a manual, a series of video tapes, several casebooks, and 4 essays…

The purpose of the First Indian Bilingual Projects, Title VII Meeting was to discuss experiences and exchange ideas on the development of evaluation design and measurable objectives, the involvement of parents and community, and the development of materials. Sessions were held on unobtrusive measures, measuring language dominance, parent and…

The purpose of the review was to analyze the literature on feedback in order to identify specific feedback variables whose further study could make the greatest potential contribution to the design of effective instructional materials and of group instructional presentations. Sources included Psychological Abstracts, Research in Education,…

THE RELATIONSHIP OF TWO PATTERNS OF INSTRUCTION TO VARIOUS ASPECTS OF BEGINNING READING INSTRUCTION WAS STUDIED. THESE ASPECTS INCLUDED (1) READING ACHIEVEMENT, (2) SCHOOL-RELATED ATTITUDES, (3) SOCIOMETRIC CHOICES, (4) SCHOOL-RELATED ANXIETY, AND (5) TEACHER AWARENESS. THE 10 EXPERIMENTAL AND 10 CONTROL GROUPS WERE PRETESTED WITH THE METROPOLITAN…

This document reports on three years of clinical research involving the development of effective clinical intervention procedures for children with slow language development. The assessment and treatment approaches discussed in the report are based upon the developmental model of grammar described in Developmental Sentence Analysis (DSA), a…

An Open University tutor in the arts describes the experience of conducting conference call tutorials for groups of up to eight students taking a correspondence-type course. Specific techniques are discussed: initial approach designed to make individual students at ease, ways of getting all students involved in dialogue, etc. (JT)

Purpose of this study was to explore the effectiveness of broadcast television as a drug education tool, and to test the effect of group viewing as a component of a positive learning environment for instructional television. Learning was measured in terms of information acquisition and in terms of attitude change. (Author)

Because teachers often do not use the small group mode, believing its academic performance is of poorer quality than that of individuals, a process has been developed that compares small group and individual performances. The procedure, which utilizes an objective test, group and individual responses, and teacher, self, and group evaluation, is…

Problems in giving students in large West African classes sufficient drill time to practice regularly listening and speaking are discussed and possible solutions are reviewed. Collective and group speaking are seen as useful aids to oral French learning. (LBH)

An introductory college course in which both the instructional staff and students have input into the content has been successfully implemented into a spectrum of instructor-centered to student-centered introductory earth science courses. Grading by point accumulation method reduced the grade threat and induced student responsibility for learning.…

When a child uses his words and his ideas in learning to read, he also assists in the normal integration of his personality. Starting with a method of language experience developed by Sylvia Ashton-Warner, the author, a reading consultant, describes a language experience-reading program which utilizes the student's own curiosity and interests. (RK)

Now that students' learning styles have been diagnosed (AA 527 074) and the classroom rearranged to accommodate the various learning styles (AA 527 220), the authors develop a learning program designed to meet the individual needs of each student. (Author/RK)