Presents a model course for teaching writing in a subject course, developed by a writing teacher and a history teacher. The course deals with students' writing attitudes, forming concepts from data, analyzing frames of reference and writer's bias, and steps toward a final draft. (HTH)

Discusses the measurable benefits in reading improvement, language skills, listening skills, and access to material beyond present skills that children receive from teachers reading aloud. Includes guidelines for successfully reading aloud in the classroom and a brief bibliography of sources of good books to read aloud. (HTH)

Reporting assumptions, procedures, findings, and implications re the second year of a two-year study of moral education involving 411 secondary students and 13 teachers, this article indicates hypotheses concerning treatment group differences in distinguishing factoral and value claims and moral development were not confirmed. (JC)

Explains how political scientists in colleges and universities can cooperate with high schools in their communities to help students improve their quantitative skills in an introductory computer course. (Author/DB)

Examining the relationship of teachers' human relations skills to certain personal characteristics, classroom observations by independent observors, and ratings by supervisors and students, this study indicated certain positive relationships, suggesting more emphasis be placed on facilitative response and less on discriminatory activities in…

Probationers' problems with probation officers and employers were used in a role-play test. Groups of probationers received behavior training in petitioning and justification skills and were able to learn the responses as assessed during role-played situations. (JAC)

Secretarial survival skills of communication, organization, and decision making should be incorporated into the secretarial training program, according to the author. She discusses these skills in relation to career mobility. (MF)

Current approaches to helping students learn, chiefly in Britain and involving groups rather than individuals, are reviewed and related to research on learning. Four issues are explored: learning and studying; problems of subject and context; change, autonomy and the learner; and the relationship between research and development. (Author/JMD)

To force shorthand students to develop rapid writing motions early in the skill-learning process, the author describes a procedure for shorthand teachers to use in dictation practice involving fast scribbling of outlines, with later improvement of form. (MF)

A "Product-Action" approach extends the research and theory of teacher education into the reality of the actual learning site. (LH)

The effect of faculty advisor training on the acquisition of career decision-making skills among first year university students at Memorial University of Newfoundland was studied. The study raises issues concerning the efficacy of faculty advisor involvement in assisting first year students to acquire career decision-making skills. (Author)

Finds that children take advantage of orthographic regularities when they read unfamiliar words. Notes that with increasing age and reading experience, children are able to delimit the contexts in which the different regularities apply. (Author/RL)

Asserting that a well planned art program is vital to every student in Tennessee, this article argues that art: increases perception; provides aesthetic expression; provides multiple skill development; increases appreciation of beauty; provides decision making opportunities; promotes self-discipline; provides accomplishment opportunities; aids in…

Asserting that the wealth of information with which we are bombarded creates an extreme imbalance between information and experience, this article outlines three important functions of experiential learning--acquisition of basic skills through demanding experiences; self-knowledge through intense experiences; and knowledge of others through direct…

Health education, particularly at the undergraduate level, is in the stage of professional development for experimentation and raising such issues as: accrediting/approving mechanisms, identification of knowledge and skills, practical field experience, and self-study guides for direction of preparation. (JD)