The Special Education and Treatment Program in Frederick County, Maryland, uses storytelling as a connection between reading and healing for elementary-age children with serious emotional disturbances. Increased academic and emotional development is achieved through interagency cooperation, curriculum compacting, academic follow-up, therapeutic…

Provides insights on the causes of the poor writing skills of many students. Also included are suggestions for improving students' abilities to write. (ZWH)

Compares seven positions on media influences on learning that were presented in a previous journal issue; discusses the conflict between advocates of a given approach versus integrated approaches to the solving of complex problems; and presents a model that links cognitive processes to computer-based prescriptions for improvements in learning. (35…

This article reanalyzes the principle of partial participation in integrated educational programing for students with severe or profound disabilities. The article presents four "error patterns" in how the concept has been used, some reasons why such error patterns have occurred, and strategies for avoiding these errors. (Author/JDD)

Focuses on literacy and mathematics and shows how fourth graders worked through "My Travels with Gulliver," an innovative unit that integrated literature, writing, and mathematics so that children could learn concepts across the curriculum. (MG)

Examines the dark analyses of modern higher education presented in Allan Bloom's "The Closing of the American Mind" and Northrop Frye's "On Education." The University of Toronto proposes an Integrated Studies (Unity of Knowledge) program which would involve students in interdisciplinary studies in humanities, social sciences,…

This critique of Edwin Ellis's Integrative Strategy Instruction model for integrating cognitive strategies into content area learning for students with learning disabilities comments on the model's similarities to other cognitive strategy training models, the role of mnemonic techniques in content area learning, and the need to incorporate…

Suggests that using historical novels in a unified studies approach to social studies and reading instruction may enhance students' learning in both content areas. Describes a historical fiction project utilizing three novels pertaining to United States history. Concludes that the whole class instruction unified each class through participation in…

A theoretical base is proposed for the current empirical literature on study skills. The proposed compensation model emphasizes the function of study activities as a subclass of cognitive skills aimed at cognitive control that compensates for limitations of the information processing system. A factor analysis confirms five basic structures. (SLD)

Describes an instructional approach for developmental readers beyond secondary school that uses the integration of reading, writing, and speaking as the vehicle to develop critical thinking with text. (SR)

Two programs are described for teaching earth science and introductory chemistry to secondary students with learning disabilities. Development of the two models involved curriculum revision to engage students in higher order thinking, teaching fewer topics in more depth, and design of materials to provide an integrated, problem-solving basis for…

Contains a vignette of a second grade classroom in which a whole language approach is used to teach reading and writing. Defines and describes whole language theory, practice, and goals. Offers guidelines to facilitate the process of changing from the basal to the holistic approach. (PRA)

Preservice teachers need educational experiences that challenge them to connect disciplinary ideas. In a hyphenated curriculum, they work with ideas from various disciplines while thinking about their own practice, practicing integration in real classrooms. The article describes two programs that required preservice teachers to integrate general…

Discusses the use of mathematics in the works of German artist Albrecht Durer, including the Mathematical Renaissance, Durer the geometer, mathematical drawing instruments, perspective drawing, and polyhedrons and magic squares. (Contains 14 references.) (MKR)

Discusses preservice teacher educational needs in computer competency, and examines two methods of achieving competency: the core computer literacy course and the integration model. The article addresses what preservice students need to know and how to achieve the outcomes in the preservice program. (GLR)