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Download full textKatz, Lilian G.; And Others – 1987
Written by members of a consulting team engaged to evaluate a school district's kindergarten program and make recommendations for the future, this report chronicles the district's progress in coming to more fully understand goals and problems related to kindergarten education. Specifically, the report presents the evaluation team's examination of…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Annotated Bibliographies, Articulation (Education), Cooperation
Edwards, Pat – Primary English Notes (P.E.N.), 1979
In celebration of the International Year of the Child (IYC), this journal (1) proposes two additions to the Declaration of the Rights of the Child: the right to be well taught and the right to be taught a love of reading and writing; and (2) provides practical suggestions for teachers, parents, students, and principals to help them actively…
Descriptors: Childrens Rights, Class Activities, Elementary Education, Instructional Improvement
Hartel, Jo Anne; And Others – 1986
This guide is intended for adult educators who work with limited English-speaking students in need of special literacy instruction. It was developed as an outgrowth of classes with adult English as a Second Language (ESL) students from diverse cultural backgrounds. Many of the students had little formal schooling in their native languages. The…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Classroom Techniques
Fleming, Margaret, Ed. – Arizona English Bulletin, 1983
Noting that most junior high level curricula do not take into account students' rapid mental and physical changes, the articles in this focused journal issue recommend works and teaching strategies that harmonize with these student needs. The titles and their authors are as follows: (1) "Adolescent Development and the Growth of Writing…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Adolescents, Developmental Stages, English Instruction
Stephens, Walter Maxwell – 1982
This study considered the meaning that was given to knowing/doing mathematics in classrooms comprising the observational study conducted by the Wisconsin Center for Education Research during 1978-81. The study interprets the work of teachers and students, and considers what constitutes appropriate mathematical knowledge for children to learn. A…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Research, Cognitive Structures, Curriculum Evaluation
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1984
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 33 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the relative frequency of various practices for teaching writing as perceived by authorities in the field; (2) the experience of composition and word…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education
Logan, Lloyd; And Others – 1986
Assembled from perceptual data gathered from questionnaires, this report outlines teachers' and administrators' opinions based on their first year's experience teaching handwriting (the Beginner's Alphabet) to first grade children using a new syllabus. Nine supporting tables are included and response statistics are detailed (Appendix 1 contains…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Administrator Attitudes, Class Organization, Course Evaluation
Winterowd, W. Ross – 1986
Arguing that practice without theory is destructive, this books deals with the theory, philosophy, and application of a variety of subjects within the area of composition. The nine chapters of the first section of the book constitute a state-of-the-art essay and discuss such topics as J. Emig's 1971 study of the composing process and the more…
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Content Area Writing, Educational Philosophy
Johnston, Amy – Passage, 1985
PETCO is a simulated corporation used as a teaching tool in the pre-employment training program at the Galang Refugee Processing Center in Indonesia. The refugees in the program are in low-level classes. The use of the simulation allows the staff to present hands-on, task-based learning techniques to address four major concerns of refugees…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Cross Cultural Training, Employee Responsibility, Employer Employee Relationship
Barker, David J., Ed.; Terdy, Dennis, Ed. – 1984
Selected papers from the state conference of the Illinois Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages include two plenary session presentations and six concurrent session presentations. The plenary session presentations are "Who's In Charge Here?" by Jesan Handscombe and "So What Do You Do In There Anyway?" by Dennis Terdy. The concurrent…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Bilingual Education, Classroom Techniques, Cloze Procedure
Harste, Jerome C., Ed.; Stephens, Diane, Ed. – 1985
Written for language educators, this volume about reading and research suggests that the theory-practice and research-teaching gaps are dysfunctional and calls for a collaborative pedagogy between colleges and schools to develop a practical theory of reading instruction. In the opening article, Jerome Harste discusses issues that emerged from…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques, College School Cooperation, Curriculum
Bergdahl, David, Ed. – FOCUS: Teaching English Language Arts, 1983
The 28 essays in this journal issue focus on methodology, interpretation, and classroom application of research in the language arts. Following a preface on the role of research in English instruction, the topics discussed include the following: (1) a research base for a large-scale evaluation of writing; (2) implications of teaching writing as…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Nickse, Ruth S.; Englander, Nancy – 1985
"Collaborations for Literacy" is a project conducted at Boston University (Massachusetts) that uses college work-study students to teach adults to read through reading to and with a child. This instruction is provided at two Boston neighborhood sites (Jackson-Mann Community School and the Brighton branch of the Boston Public Library).…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Adult Students
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. National Center for Research in Vocational Education. – 1988
This module is one of a series of 127 performance-based teacher education (PBTE) learning packages focusing upon specific professional competencies of vocational teachers. The competencies upon which these modules are based were identified and verified through research as being important to successful vocational teaching at both the secondary and…
Descriptors: Competence, Competency Based Education, Cooperative Education, Course Content
Battle, Mary Vroman – 1986
A study examined the effectiveness of a set of instructional activities designed to improve communication of university freshmen in standard-level, first-semester English through teaching interrelatedly the reading of prose literature and the writing of expository essays. Subjects, 24 typical first-semester freshmen, participated in the course,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cloze Procedure, College English, College Freshmen
