The effectiveness of a minicourse designed to improve the questioning skills of student teachers in grades 4-6 was investigated. Microteaching experience and supervisory feedback on student teaching behavior were provided for the experimental group, who made more significant gains in effective teaching behavior than the control group. (GDC)

Guidelines for new directions and emphases in teacher education that grow out of a concern for teaching people to think critically and creatively for the future are suggested. (JD)

Two experiments investigated the effects of four teaching treatments on sixth graders' learning of an ecology curriculum. Recitation was more significant in improving learning than the other treatments--probing or followup questioning; redirection of a question to another student; and higher cognitive questioning. (Author/CP)

Investigates the effectiveness of unit seven of the MINNEMAST program in kindergarten classrooms using a pretest-posttest design. Concludes that this unit, as well as other units of MINNEMAST, would be an applicable science program in kindergarten classrooms. (HM)

Outlines a taxonomy of reading comprehension skills that teachers can use to develop questioning techniques that are flexible enough to reflect the nature of the reading materials. (RL)

This article describes a practical classroom approach to teaching the Spanish subjunctive to lower level classes using impersonal expressions. (NCR)

Encourages the examination of incorrect responses given by students to questions in the belief that the responses will reveal information concerning subjects' logical thinking and concept-forming abilities. College students' incorrect responses to physical science questions are analyzed. (CP)

This study investigates "wait times" in elementary science classes-the pauses between a teacher's question and a student's answer and between a student's answer and a teacher's response. Among the findings were indications that longer "wait times" promote increased student participation in problem solving, decision making, the structuring of the…

Introduces a technique for the presentation of new vocabulary in a situation which incorporates communicative use of language. (Author/DB)

Lecturing, as a means of conveying information is often an inefficient format; learning demands involvement from the learner and behaviors that maximize audience contact and interaction will enhance attention and facilitate learning. (JD)

Investigated were the problem solving strategies of 116 educable mentally retarded adolescents and 65 nonretarded mental age-equated fourth graders. (Author/DB)

A course teaching the skills used by business lawyers uses role-playing and discussion to give students exposure to essential functions including interviewing, report-writing, procedures, planning, and coping with the individuals involved. (MSE)

Successful instructional strategies for enhancing the reading comprehension and comprehension test performance of learning disabled students are described. Students are taught to self-monitor their comprehension of expository materials and stories through recognition and analysis of recurrent elements and problem passages, content summarization,…

Proposes tools and methods for teachers and students to use in the classroom to organize and stimulate ideas, imagination, memory, improvisation, and writing. Sample outlines and grids serve as methods for helping learners understand specific concepts. (MSE)

Argues that three tenets of the traditional wisdom about teacher questioning are based on inadequate research: (1) it is useful to classify questions as fact (lower level) or reason (higher level); (2) higher level questions are better; and (3) questions are good in general because they stimulate thought. (MBR)