Researchers investigated if early childhood teachers could become reflective practitioners when they studied culturally specific constructs within a digital collegial environment. Three female African American early childhood teachers within three different settings (a faith-based primary school, a home school, and a government-funded pre-school…

Testing the pH of various liquids is one of the most popular activities in 5th- through 8th-grade classrooms. The author presents an extensive pH-testing lesson based on a 5E (engagement, exploration, explanation, extension, and evaluation) teaching model. The activity provides students with the opportunity to learn about pH and how it relates to…

A discussion of the contribution of the International Council for Educational Media (ICEM) in the production of teaching films. (HB)

Discusses attempts by educators in reading to define reading and provides insight into the difficulty of such a venture. (RB)

Reviews the literature in the Educational Resources Information Center on the Right to Read Model reading programs developed from various Elementary Secondary Education Act funds. (RB)

Argues that a valid model for writing good literature must stress the importance of imagination and provides samples from serveral writers to buttress the point. (RB)

The focus of this report is the Direct Instruction Supervision Code, developed to assess the degree of implementation of the Direct Instruction Follow Through Model. Most of this paper deals with the development, reliability, concurrent validity, and criterion-related validity of the code, which is a classroom observation instrument. The report…

This paper discusses one practical difficulty that emerges when teachers begin to construct learning modules: that most module developers make the error of becoming "course choppers" rather than "system builders." The paper is written for teachers who have begun the process of developing modules and have encountered organizational difficulties.…

This paper argues that multicultural education highlighting minority or ethnic groups in both English classes and other classes cannot be isolated from the curriculum as a whole. The underlying impetus behind the institution of multicultural education is the emphasis of cultural pluralism and of working toward a society where all people can live…

The nature of and problems with words of more than one syllable are discussed in this paper, and strategies for teaching and reading such words are suggested. It is postulated that the major problem in reading words of more than one syllable is stress and its effect on vowel pronunciation. It is also reasonable to assume that words become more…

Highly efficient instructional techniques are required to teach prerequisite skills in cognitive, social, motor and language areas of performance while accommodating individual differences within group instructional situations. The direct instructional teaching model appears to be ideally suited to this task. Gives a brief summary and explanation…

Explains the model of argument developed by the philosopher Stephen Toulmin and suggests how it may be used to teach written argument. (DD)