The individualized education program (IEP) management system used with elementary educable mentally retarded students in Dubach, Louisiana, includes two types of short term objectives, six organizational components, and two basic recording forms. The system is designed to actively involve students, parents, and teachers in planning and monitoring.…

A survey of Illinois community colleges reveals that most have been happy with the results achieved through individualized teaching of typewriting courses. Areas discussed include format, student options, levels of mastery, instructor and student roles, learning materials, cost-effectiveness, and attitudes. A list of recommendations concludes the…

Teachers are in constant search of new and better methods for bringing learning experiences to their students. A model to assist the teacher in selecting different classroom teaching methods defines the purpose of schooling, the learning process, and the learner and selects an appropriate and compatible teaching method. (JN)

The authors delineate two distinct cultures, those of academics and of students, with differing basic postulates concerning the purpose of education, the process of learning, teacher and student responsibilities, and intellect. They then suggest approaches for maximizing communication across these cultural barriers. (Part of a theme issue on…

Student ideas and views are seen to be useful to administrators by helping: (1) administrators make sounder decisions, (2) ascertain, and thus better serve, the needs of present students, (3) anticipate the needs of prospective students, (4) bring fresh ideas and innovative approaches, and (5) strengthen future alumni support. (MLW)

Illuminated elements of client control processes as they become manifest in the activities of specialized personnel in a large organizationally complex high school. (Author/AM)

Reports the results of a faculty self-study conducted at Louisiana Tech University's College of Education regarding faculty use of technology in planning and instruction; required student use; perceived obstacles to increased use; and faculty interest in professional development in technology. Strategic planning to increase faculty use of…

Used case studies and constant comparative method to describe classroom management practices of educators in a nontraditional, integrative middle school. Emerging themes of salient dimensions of management were: (1) managing content for integrative teaching and learning; (2) rethinking power relations; (3) managing alternative teacher and student…

After a brief critique of behaviorist pedagogical assumptions that learning is something done to learners, constructivist learning theory is presented as a framework for understanding experiential education, in that learning is a process involving the active engagement of learners, who adapt the educative event to fit, and expand, their individual…

Explains that universal access to education has created a student body more diverse and less academically prepared for college. States that higher education, when viewed as a business, has shifted much of the learning responsibility from the student to the teacher. Offers guidelines for maintaining ethical standards of conduct in sociology…

The ideal classroom climate promotes deep understanding, excitement about learning, and social and intellectual growth. Students are active decision makers, teachers work with students, and learners' interests and questions drive much of the curriculum. This brief article provides guidelines and a checklist to help administrators, parents, and…

Attempts to identify those dimensions lacking in most adolescent/adult English-as-a-foreign-language coursebooks whose objectives are to foster developmental language learning in instructed social contexts and to assist students in communicating in and learning English. Findings indicate that most coursebooks fail in these objectives. (27…

Discusses the beliefs of children with learning disabilities about listening and the listener's role in repairing communicative breakdowns. Describes ways of using children's literature to enable students to reflect on the interactive roles of speaker and listener using stories with a theme of resolving communication breakdowns. (Author/CR)

To counter the factory model, Elizabeth City-Pasquotank (North Carolina) Public Schools have adopted a knowledge-work organization metaphor and applied it to four school subsystems: organizational structure, student accomplishments, teaching and learning, and assessment. Viewing the school as a knowledge-work organization elevates students to…

Focuses on the interaction between a teacher and students based on relationships among the teacher, students, and the content in the instructional process. States that how the students meet the content is fundamental to learning. Includes references. (CMK)