The models of small-group lessons provided in this booklet were developed by the New York City Board of Education, under the Elementary Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I, to act as guides from which the teacher can generate materials on reading comprehension. Chapters deal with the instruction of such comprehension skills as utilizing…

This paper is a proposal for developing a manual that provides preschool teachers with prescriptive guidelines for teaching verbal and conceptual skills with modeling. Several studies are cited to indicate the power and versatality of observational and learning (modeling) procedures in promoting the acquisition, generalization, and retention of a…

The hypothesis of this study was that a method of writing instruction that employs expository organizational models to be imitated by students is more effective in improving expository writing organization than conventional classroom instruction in writing. One pre-test and one post-test writing sample were taken from two groups of English 10A…

The primary purpose of this book is to offer suggestions and writing examples for use in teaching children to write poetry. Each of the 15 chapters deals with a particular subject that could be useful in introducing poetry writing to students. The chapters discuss such topics as developing word consciousness in children, writing cinquains and…

The purpose of this study was to design a competency-based curriculum for an English major in a liberal arts college. Questionnaires were mailed to 248 English majors graduating from public and private liberal arts colleges during the 1968-73 period. The questionnaire was made up of cognitive learning and affective learning categories following…

The objective of this study was the development of a teaching model based on the concept and use of (non-simulation) games in the mathematics classroom. The game model was defined according to the organization described by Joyce and Weil. Six games were used in the study; each televised game session was preceded by a pre-test and followed by a…

This study is concerned with the concept of rhetorical stance: the interrelationships among speaker, content, and audience in a communication situation. It is hypothesized that when the rhetorical stance model is applied to the secondary English curriculum, the teaching of literature will improve. This hypothesis is confirmed by evidence gained in…

This paper outlines an instructional paradigm which can be utilized in any learning environment and discusses four instructional strategies which can be implemented in the teaching of organizational communication within a given instructional system. The instructional system, as defined in this paper, is a collection of people and things that has…

Much of the responsibility for poor teaching of history at the secondary level lies with those who teach college history rather than those who teach teachers. One approach to new methods of history instruction is the development and use of inquiry models. Crucial to this approach is the involvement of students and teacher in model building--an…

This investigation sought to determine the effects of a perceptual modeling concept, presented during the preservice experience, on the verbal behaviors of student teachers in their student teaching experience. Fifty-two preservice teachers were randomly assigned to an experimental or control group. The experimental group received instruction…

The Union for Research and Experimentation in Higher Education, a consortium of 10 colleges, initiated an experimental study of a new model for off-campus education in selected problematic areas. The model places students and faculty members in Field Study Centers-- or Beachhead Colleges --to help solve local problems through interaction between…

The effects of cueing procedures in modeling and in feedback treatments on the acquisition of teacher questioning behavior were investigated in order to determine if, as hypothesized, providing cues from a supervisor on the desired behavior during modeling and feedback treatments would increase the frequency of a teacher's use of higher-order…

This bulletin is the first of three designed to give detailed help on fostering language competence in 4- to 6-year-old school children. The bulletin introduces the teacher to a group of prepositions and conjunctions (chosen from the Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary List of 220 Words) which are important to the meaning of sentences. The list was…

A rule-based model is proposed of how children learn to decode as they gain experience in reading. The model is based on data gathered from pronunciation errors of words presented in isolation. An analysis of the errors reveals that different kinds of errors are made by children at different ability levels. Less able readers make errors that…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the problem of designing instruction in the process of composing. The scope of the study is limited to one kind of writing (the short, autobiographical narrative) and to one kind of instruction (a self-instructional program, developed by means of discrimination programing). Subjects for the study were…