This report summarizes a program to help parents learn some specific teaching skills to help their children learn. To develop a positive reinforcement teaching style was the basic objective because it is both the most simple style to learn and the most powerful style for building success in learning. Role-play stimulation in small groups was the…

There are two parts to this curriculum development project. Project A is briefly described here as the development resource book, at an adult level, to serve as a primary source of information for teachers concerning the views and feelings of Indians and Metis peoples in modern society. A teacher's guide, curriculum unit and multimedia kit will be…

The focal crises simulated in the game are set in a district integrated at the beginning of the Fall term. Each school had an enrollment that was approximately 52 percent white, 22 percent black, 22 percent Mexican American, and the remainder Oriental. During the early weeks of school, the integration plan worked smoothly. After a short time,…

This summer workshop was held in 1967. This guide includes how to lead discussions, ask challenging questions, use feedback, observe behavior of members, make thought-provoking statements, and summarize points. Also included are guides to film discussion, materials on the disadvantaged child, an attitude inventory, tapes on discipline situations,…

The Career Development and Technology Program will help elementary school children examine various occupations, the world of work, technology, and their own interest and abilities in relation to possible career directions. Specifically it will: (1) provide learning activities that engage the learner in experiences suited to his interests, (2)…

This game, a simulation of the way the labor market, educational opportunities, and marriage and leisure patterns operate in our society, is designed for high school and college students in classroom situations, and has been extensively tested at that level. It can be used with any number of students, for any amount of time. Participants walk…

An instructional game is presented. The instructional goal of the game was to help the learner, one of the players, understand and use seven different prepositions with which, on the basis of a pretest, he was unfamiliar. The game was arranged so that instruction would occur simply as a result of communication to the learner from his partner who,…

In an effort to motivate culturally different students to learn standard English while they remain proud of their dialect and retain it as their informal manner of speaking, 120 blacks at three grade levels role played from scripts the parts of employers, college admissions officers, and applicants. The scripts rewarded applicants who could and…

The research study measures changes in political attitudes of high school students after playing the game "Democracy." The primary purpose of the experiment was to determine if role identification and game structure are primarily responsible for the effects of the game upon the player's attitudes. The player takes the role of a congressman who…

This document is a learning module in interpersonal perception, designed to teach undergraduate and post-graduate students how to more effectively teach disabled or exceptional students. The feelings and behaviors of both teacher and child interact and affect each other to produce a positive or negative learning environment. Some of the feelings…

The study included the design and analysis of a teacher education simulation games to teach a typology of small group member roles and compare its cognitive effect with a lecture containing the same information. To analyze each teacher education student's performance in the simulation game, lecture and subsequent tests, both cognitive and…

Naturalistic observation of the spontaneous role-taking behavior of 16 four-year-old children (8 boys, 8 girls) in a free play situation with a same-sex peer was used to investigate the sex role perceptions and preferences of young children. Videotape recordings of the unelicited male, female, parental, and conjugal role portrayals were examined…

Focuses on arguments among White American children in a small town in New England, Black American children of migrant harvesters, and rural Hindi-speaking Fiji Indian children. Findings suggest that, while repetition, inversion, and escalation are common to all three cultures, there is considerable variation as to how they are used. (EJS)

Three major meanings of "empathy" are discussed with reference to the widespread imprecision in its use. It is suggested that undifferentiated use of the term in social work education is dangerous, particularly in view of the positive valence associated with being empathetic. (Author/BH)

Various activities designed to motivate adult learners of English as a second language are described, including the use of jokes, nicknames, evening news, card games, and short stories. (HP)