This paper describes a peer-mentoring program in a large language department. Experienced Teaching Associates (TAs) served as peer mentors to novice TAs, providing the type of individualized guidance that new TAs need. The peer mentoring model has several advantages over the supervision-only model, including one-on-one help, multiple classroom…

Field-tested over a 2-year period by vocational teachers in West Virginia, this child care curriculum contains 12 competency-based modules and a teacher's manual. The modules cover the following task areas: Displaying a knowledge of child care centers and services and the responsibilities of the child care worker; advising adults on prenatal…

This book describes an approach to teaching writing as an ongoing learning process shared by teacher and students. The method, which features multiple options for both teacher and students, is suited to a developmental, individualized approach. The emphasis is on inductive, dialectical methods in which teacher and students question, probe, debate,…

Through the use of the Information Mapping and Information Blocking format, this paper discusses various means of increasing the information availability rate through compressed media. Techniques reviewed include: compressed speech, compressed media for individualization of instruction, compressed speech and remedial reading, speech compression…

This guide to the use of a 100-module series of performance-based teacher education (PBTE) materials is addressed to teacher educators, directors of staff development, master teachers, and others with responsibility for guiding and assisting preservice or inservice vocational teachers in the development of professional teaching competencies. There…

The cross-cultural approach to reading, which involves a structured, individualized sequence of learning activities, was designed to accommodate the culture and language of black "nonmainstream" students. The approach includes two teaching/learning strategies: associative bridging, the process of beginning with students' familiar dialect and then…

Over a three-year period, from 1971 to 1973, a series of three experimental intensive language sessions was held in Malta for university professors and researchers who wanted to improve their knowledge of English as a second language. Each session consisted of from 20 to 30 participants and lasted 2 weeks. The general objectives of these courses…

In a program of Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI), where a student's progress through each level of a program of study is governed by his performance on a test dealing with individual behavioral objectives, there is considerable value in keeping the number of items on each test at a minimum. The specified test length for each objective…

A research strategy that the National Institute of Education (NIE) has adopted to obtain information about what Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act is accomplishing toward achievement of two of its objectives is presented. These two objectives are to fund special services to low achieving students in the poorest schools and to…

This is an evaluation report of a New York City school district educational project funded under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. The program was designed to provide bilingual instruction to pregnant school-age girls who were two or more years below grade level in reading and mathematics. It was also designed for…

These 32 learning guides are self-instructional packets for 32 tasks identified as essential for performance on an entry-level job in plumbing and pipefitting. Each guide is based on a terminal performance objective (task) and 1-4 enabling objectives. For each enabling objective, some or all of these materials may be presented: learning steps…

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 14 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the relationship between the syntactical complexity of expository writing and reading comprehension levels of community college students, (2) fluent and…

This document contains an introductory lecture and materials for conducting a workshop to familiarize regular classroom teachers and school administrators with individualized education programs (IEPs) and their requirements and procedures. The goal of the training is for participants to increase their commitment to and involvement in the IEP…

The fourth of four volumes, this report documents the implementation, evolution, and institutionalization of the Individualized Study by Telecommunications (IST) Program, a microcomputer-based system developed by the Educational Telecommunications for Alaska (ETA) Project to provide instruction and a set of core courses for rural high school…

Selected demographic variables, Nelson-Denny Reading Test Scores, and grades were obtained to establish a profile of Miami-Dade Community College's Learning Support Center's (LSC's) reading and English students and to evaluate the LSC's courses in terms of student outcomes. The study of 6,108 students enrolled in LSC's English 179 and Reading 179…