This article identifies several innovative strategies and provides sample lessons of innovative approaches to world history including: concept teaching, site plans, values clarification, role playing, and simulation. (Author/JR)

Naive nonorganic subjects of at least normal intelligence can not simulate brain damage of the type produced by an external blow to the head on the Bender Gestalt test. (Author/DEP)

Presented before the Section on Nursing, American College Health Association, Forty-sixth Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 2, 1968.

A simple role playing exercise provides a device for helping public relations students to develop their own idea of what ethical behavior is, why it is important, and how it can become a practical part of their daily lives as public relations practitioners. A few basic premises apply to the problems of ethical behavior in organizations: (1)…

Extended in-depth role-playing and simulation, used effectively in the social sciences for some time, is seen as being a particularly effective technique for the intermediate level foreign language class. This paper describes a teaching unit of six or seven weeks, developed for use in the third or fourth semester of college level German, which…

Sixteen teachers of preschool handicapped children were assigned to a microcounseling group and 16 to a didactic lecture control group. Microcounseling training included viewing of a parent-teacher videotape model and discussion of appropriate communication skills such as clarification, reflective listening, and dealing with parental resistance to…

THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN COMMUNITY TYPE AND THE ROLE OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER WERE INVESTIGATED. THE SAMPLE INCLUDED FOUR COMMUNITY TYPES, REPRESENTING DIFFERENT DEGREES OF URBANIZATION--RURAL, SMALL CITY, SUBURBAN, AND URBAN. INTERVIEW RESPONSES WERE OBTAINED FROM 98 TEACHERS, 261 PEOPLE-IN-GENERAL, AND 67 SCHOOL OFFICIALS WHO INDICATED…

A SOCIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT-COLLEGE INTERACTIONS WAS UNDERTAKEN WITH INTEREST CENTERED ON SOCIOCULTURAL FACTORS AND ATTITUDES. STUDY OBJECTIVES WERE TO (1) IDENTIFY THE SALIENT ROLES OF COLLEGE STUDENTS, THE SETTINGS IN WHICH THESE ROLES ARE PERFORMED, AND THE ROLES OF OTHER PERSONS WITH WHOM THE ACTION IS CARRIED OUT, (2) DESCRIBE AND…

This paper examines aspects of role playing in young children focusing specifically on the importance of role playing, the components of role playing and how to use role playing. The importance of role playing is discussed and several reasons for believing that role playing is related to intellectual and social development and to learning language…

This trainer's manual is designed to increase knowledge and skills of those involved in vocational rehabilitation of drug abusers. It should clarify the trainees' roles as vocational rehabilitation specialists, and help trainees to define the program support necessary to perform their jobs effectively. This course is directed toward personnel…

Beginning with definitions of "simulation" (a methodology for testing alternative decisions under hypothetical conditions), this paper focuses on the use of simulation as an instructional method, pointing out the relationships and differences between role playing, games, and simulation. The term "simulation games" is explored with an analysis of…

This paper describes six specific techniques that speech communication students may use in rehearsals to improve memory, to increase delivery skills, and to reduce speech stress. The techniques are idea association, covert modeling, desensitization, language elaboration, overt modeling, and self-regulation. Recent research is reviewed that…

This paper discusses the utilization of role playing and simulation in the training of preservice teachers to acquaint them with the problems of the poor reader. Techniques and teaching procedures discussed include using cryptograms to illustrate the difficulties the poor learner may experience in learning to read, using auditory distractions on a…

This document evaluates six three-week inservice training sessions provided for Kentucky public assistance workers. The training was conducted with 15 trainees participating in each session. Trainees were state employees who were employed to determine eligibility for food stamps, medical assistance, SSA unemployment insurance, etc. Their formal…