This document summarizes a four-volume report on the Wisconsin Elementary Teacher Education Project (WETEP) covering the period from November 1967 to March 1969. The project was designed to provide improved elementary education through individualization of learning and instruction, to improve the quantity and quality of personal contact between…

The traditional educational structure requires the teacher to be part bookkeeper, part clerical assistant, and part psychologist, among other roles, while his salary scale is based on length of service. Differentiated staffing offers ways of changing this pattern. The details of differentiated duties are largely a matter of local option and…

The General Teaching Model is a procedural guide for the design, implementation, evaluation, and improvement of instruction. The Model is considered applicable to all levels of education, all subject matters, and any length of instructional unit. It consists of four components: 1) instructional objectives, 2) pre-assessment, 3) instructional…

This report describes how a one-year program prepared 30 people to be professional teachers of Adult Basic Education, with emphasis on Teaching English as a Second Language. The program utilized a team structure in modular modifications of existing course structure, including modules of field experiences, directed teaching, paid experience in…

Each of five papers describe a model for teacher education. "Levels of Involvement: A Descriptive Theory Model," identifies and examines seven levels: 1) classroom settings; 2) extended classroom settings; 3) contrived settings; 4) real settings, strictly controlled; 5) real settings, partially controlled; 6) real settings, loosely controlled; and…

Reviews existing curriculum materials in the area of values clarification and illustrates a model for educators wishing to develop values clarification activities and materials for young children. (Author)

Investigates the effect of three models of teaching college astronomy on knowledge acquisition, based on the principles of kinetic structure analysis and the psychological concept of mass versus distributed practice. Results indicate that distributed integration is better than nondistributed integration in teaching certain fields in astronomy. (HM)

Investigated was the adequacy of a teaching-learning model for improving the level of achievement and attitudes of culturally deprived children in heterogeneous classes, while offering adequate learning opportunity to those who were not deprived. A seventh grade biology course on aquatic zoo ecology was developed for this model. (Author/HM)

Rising costs of medical care and training of medical professionals have brought about circumstances which threaten the quality of medical care in the U.S. One response by the medical community has been the introduction of educational technology and design processes into professional training. (Author/JEG)

Lists five components essential to quality teaching: (1) fairness, (2) application, (3) challenge, (4) entertainment, and (5) service. States that these components should be incorporated into such phases of teaching as class preparation, office hours, informal involvement, advising, writing tests, and curricular planning. (BSR)

Assesses English education since the Dartmouth Conference in 1966. Observes that the personal growth model which emerged from the conference is more difficult to implement than the skills model and the traditional heritage model. Claims that the emphasis on examining writing settings reflects the search for a broader context for the personal…

Points out the benefits of "sciencing"--helping children learn the methodology and processes of scientific investigation through the use of play experimentation. (SKC)

A model for learning mathematics is proposed which involves the components of using, discriminating, generalizing, and synthesizing. The ways pupils use Logo programs as tools within their projects and how the nature of their programming tools become more explicitly understood and generalized are discussed. (RH)

Defines the ideal classroom environment and compares it with the effective clinical supervision situation (one-to-one encounter) and determines that the two are more similar than contrasting. Urges educators and their supervisors to create ideal teaching/learning environments based on the premise that people learn what they live and experience.…