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Download full textChristy-Baker, Cynthia; Randolph, Dorothy S. – 1982
Self-instructional materials for the beginning level child welfare worker are provided in this source book. Basic information about hostility, clients who feel threatened, and situations where the worker feels threatened is included. Practice skills for dealing with hostility or feelings of being threatened as experienced by the worker or client…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Counselor Attitudes, Counselor Client Relationship
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Direct linkHarrison, Simon – Teaching History, 2004
How do we know how good our students are at history? For that matter, how precisely do we really know what "good" at history even means? Even harder, how does our assessment of our students' attainment fit in with the National Curriculum Levels for Key Stage 3? Simon Harrison has led a project to help history teachers in Hampshire to add…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Student Evaluation, Outcome Measures, Task Analysis
Lowe, Pardee, Jr. – 1976
This booklet describes the test used by the federal government to determine oral proficiency in a foreign language. The test is essentially an oral interview, conducted by two testers, and lasting from 15 to 30 minutes, although the format can vary. Proficiency levels range from 0 (for no practical speaking proficiency) to 5 (for speaking…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Definitions, Interviews
Raphael, Taffy E.; Wonnacott, Clydie A. – 1981
A study investigated the effects of a teacher inservice program on teaching fourth grade students the functional relationship between questions and the response information to which they refer. Ten teachers and 180 of their students participated in the study. Three of the teachers participated in a traditional half-day teacher workshop on…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Grade 4, Inservice Teacher Education, Intermediate Grades
Reha, Rose K. – 1982
To determine what interviewers perceived to be important factors in the interviewing process and whether the sex of the interviewer or type of organization he or she worked for influenced their perceptions of such factors, a questionnaire was administered to 42 personnel managers from randomly selected places of business and government offices.…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Decision Making, Employment Interviews, Employment Practices
Randhawa, Bikkar S. – 1981
This study addresses the question: Is the verbal interaction between teachers and students reciprocal? Teachers' and students' verbal behaviors were investigated using the verbal behavior classification system (CVC) in 72 seventh through ninth grade classrooms. The CVC system consists of a matrix of process and substance dimensions. Categories in…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Group Dynamics, Interaction
ORME, MICHAEL E.J.; AND OTHERS – 1966
THE RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF SIX MODES OF TRAINING TEACHERS TO USE PROBING QUESTIONS WAS INVESTIGATED. THE MODES INVOLVED SYMBOLIC MODELING, PERCEPTUAL MODELING, OR BOTH, COUPLED WITH FEEDBACK. AFTER RATINGS OF PERTINENT BEHAVIOR IN A 5-MINUTE LESSON WERE COLLECTED AS PRETRAINING MEASURES, STANFORD TEACHER INTERNS WERE RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Educational Strategies, Feedback, Films
Sadetsky, Irwin; Pell, Arthur R. – 1979
This guide to interviewing and selecting elementary school teachers and administrators covers evaluating resumes, establishing rapport with job applicants, considering legal aspects of interviewing, controlling the interview, evaluating the applicant, closing the interview, checking references, and maintaining interview records. Job-related…
Descriptors: Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Selection, Administrators, Elementary Education
Beck, Isabel L.; And Others – 1979
Two of the most widely used reading programs in the country, the 1976 Houghton Mifflin Reading Series and the 1976 Ginn Reading 720 Series, are analyzed in this volume to determine the methods they suggest for teaching reading comprehension. Eight sections contain the following information: (1) a short description of some of the surface features…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Content Analysis, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education
Tobin, Kenneth G.; Capie, William – 1980
An experiment was conducted on the effects of two teacher variables and student engagement on science achievement. The variables included: teacher wait-time, defined as the length of the pause preceding a teacher utterance; and questioning quality, a generic term used to describe cognitive level, clarity, and relevance of questioning. Thirteen…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Attention Control, Attention Span
Yawkey, Thomas Daniels; Villarreal, Beatrice – 1979
Child care programs are ideal places to begin the mastery of both English and a native language. Language growth can be promoted through the use of pretend play. Pretend situations include storytelling, oral drills and poems, riddles and songs. In storytelling activities, it is essential that the adult model language for the children. The children…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Early Childhood Education, Language Enrichment
Ligon, Glynn; And Others – 1978
A comprehensive guide for observers using the Pupil Activities Record--Revised (PAR-R), this manual covers procedures followed in systematic observation of a student's classroom activities for the period of one instructional day. The manual provides general information about the purpose and design of the PAR and explains the revisions, which were…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research, Data Collection
Sheridan, E. Marcia – 1978
Recent studies on schema theory and other concepts related to reading comprehension are discussed in this paper. Noting that the psycholinguistic model of reading views reading as a process of predicting meaning based on the reader's prior knowledge of language, the paper describes recent research that has led to a definition of reading…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Petitt, Dorothy, Ed. – 1966
These reprints from the "English Journal's" department, "Poetry in the Classroom," present successful approaches to teaching 22 poems. The poems are grouped under seven headings: "Poems from the Tradition,""The Creation,""The Carpe Diem Theme,""Where Shall Man Journey?""Symbolic Settings,""Poems for the Junior High School," and "Poems of our…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Critical Reading, Discussion (Teaching Technique), English Instruction
Wilson, John Harold – 1967
This study investigated the teaching procedures of two groups of science teachers at the elementary school level. One group had received instruction in the Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS) methods which included the inquiry-discovery approach. The second group had recieved no instruction in any "new" approach. SCIS-educated…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Elementary School Science
