Many college faculty are reluctant to examine and refine their own classroom communication skills, for a variety of reasons, but teachers should focus on developing the effectiveness of their classroom instruction through the student-teacher relationship. (MSE)

Offers suggestions for activities that demonstrate the principles of osmosis. Explains how decalcified chicken eggs can be used to give students practice with measurement, experimental procedures, and science principles. (ML)

In this activity intended to develop thinking and writing skills secondary students are given a worksheet dealing with either nuclear energy or the Civil War. On the worksheet the order of items is scrambled. Students must organize the information, decide what is important, and write an essay on the topic. (RM)

Describes the structural aspects of trainers' careers, their development as trainers, their development of meta skills and the time period they spend in training; relates this to the career concepts individual trainers have and how this can influence and be influenced by the role the training function performs; and points out implications for…

Presents some arguments for new training approaches to teaching people how to play games based on the literature about how humans play games, how they acquire game-playing skills, and game-playing theory. An example of the role-reversal approach to training is presented with some experimental findings regarding its effectiveness. (MBR)

This statement by the Policies Commission for Business and Economic Education concerns the goals of business education, contributions of business education to general education and to the comprehensive high school, and support of business education for business. (CT)

In two experiments, self-instruction training for educationally handicapped children consisted of general self-instruction components and explicit instruction in task components. For both experiments the training improved academic performance. It was concluded that successful academic performance occurs when self-instructional statements integrate…

Automation is changing the American workplace. It is redefining roles, changing corporate culture, and altering the demographics of the work force. In the first of a three-part series, a noted forecaster provides an overview of the coming changes. (CT)

The authors suggest a broad range of writing activities for students in subject area classes, which will foster content learning as well as writing proficiency; a network of teachers skilled in developing curriculum materials based on writing; and expectations for writing in content area classes, such as mathematics, science, and social studies.…

Discusses seven strategies that program developers and trainers can use to produce more rapid acquisition, retention, and transfer of work skills, including: discover basic skills and concepts; analyze, define, and field test; produce and verify mastery; teach basic skills and general principles; teach trainees both correct and incorrect examples;…

A classroom activity that allows college freshmen to examine their approach to studying course material and to discuss alternative approaches, developed and found successful in a general chemistry course, is described and discussed. (MSE)

Examined effects of a short-term, social problem-solving training program on latency-aged children. The intervention was taught over weeks to one-half of a fourth-grade class at an inner city parochial school. Results indicated that program children learned to generate more alternative solutions to problems and to anticipate their consequences.…

This article presents a model of a pretechnical curriculum, which has as its focus the self-empowerment of the individual, and describes how this curriculum could be implemented in the schools. Discusses the three curriculum categories: generalizable skills, transition skills, and problem-solving skills. (CT)

Role-playing games and simulations offer revolutionary ways to learn and solve problems. Some games/simulations that can be used to explore and evaluate possible futures are described. The future of educational games is also discussed. (RM)

Reports results of a questionnaire designed to discover the similarities and/or differences among academic training and development curricula in U.S. colleges and universities. Results concern role clusters, types of degrees and average years offered, training and development roles by department, and rank of competencies taught. (CT)