It's not often that the goals of closing the achievement gap, providing professional development opportunities to teachers, and benefiting children by using innovative and effective instructional methods coincide. But at Sutterville Elementary School in Sacramento, CA, they do. This article describes the School-Wide Success (SWS) program, its…

Concerns about American's youth being productive workers, capable leaders and conscientious consumers in a global community are copious. The Committee for Economical Development (2005) reported that youth in the U.S. know little about the world or international issues and how this affects their future, acquire insufficient international skills and…

Many special education professionals perceive a dilemma created by what seems to be conflicting mandates of IDEA 2004 and NCLB 2002. Teachers and IEP (Individualized Education Program) teams serving students with significant disabilities are confronted with the challenge of designing programs that assure access to the general curriculum while at…

A case study of a tailor-made apprenticeship training program for experienced employees is presented. The existing and aspiring heads, managers, and experts in a single enterprise were offered apprenticeship training for special vocational qualification in engineering. The aim of the case study was to discover participants' views about age,…

Students with learning disabilities are not receiving "special" education, which is based on the core principles of intensive, relentless, structured, appropriately paced instruction in small groups with frequent monitoring of each student's progress. We believe that the diminution of special education for students with learning…

The study presents the process of differentiated instruction, its implementation, and impact on second graders in a Lebanese school. It analyses how writing instruction has been differentiated through implementing the writing workshop to help students demonstrate improved writing skills. It examines the effects of second graders' participation in…

The development of teaching in higher education towards a more learner-orientated model has been supported by the literature on individual learning differences and on learning styles in particular. This has contributed to the evolution of university pedagogy away from a medieval transmission model than runs counter to contemporary understanding of…

The authors examined the use of a social problem-solving intervention to treat selective mutism with 2 sisters in an elementary school setting. Both girls were taught to answer teacher questions in front of their classroom peers during regular classroom instruction. Each girl received individualized instruction from a therapist and was taught to…

A presentation of a conceptual model of individualization which provides a common language, a model which can be empirically validated and subsequently utilized to measure, evaluate and generate further research, and criteria to examine existing measurement surveys. (Author/HB)

This bibliography on individualized instruction cites 88 documents acquired and processed by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Teacher Education from July 1968 to December 1969. Organization is in terms of document types: bibliographies--5 items; manuals--8 items; programs--33 items; research--15 items; reviews--4 items; and others, e.g., conference…

Project Criterion, an innovative teacher education program based on a systems approach to learning, became operational in the 1967 fall term. The project has a three-pronged approach: performance objectives, individualized instruction, and simulab experiences. Individualized instruction is provided through a series of "Instructional…

This article discusses an Office Technician Program in which tuition is prorated on the time it takes to complete the program..." (Author/AK)

How to provide the best mediation circumstance for each learner in a complex educational system needs a great deal of study." (Author)

An observant teacher will identify each pupil's special needs and will be better equipped to motivate those children under his supervision. (CK)