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Gardner, Dorothy E.M.; Cass, Joan E. – 1965
This publication is intended to help teachers of young children in the informal preschool setting, particularly infant school teachers in England. Details of what 48 selected nursery and infant school teachers did and said during classroom "free time" periods were recorded by trained observers. This data is included in this book to…
Descriptors: Books, Classroom Research, Elementary School Teachers, Nursery Schools
Eisemann, Carl – 1969
This study attempted to determine the feasibility of preparing and using video-tapes in a small college in connection with the preparation of prospective secondary school English teachers. At Knox College, Illinois, the teaching sessions of an experimental group of five student teachers were video-taped and their teaching effectiveness was…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Experimental Teaching, Media Research, Preservice Teacher Education
Knowles, Malcolm – 1973
Traditional theories of learning and the teaching practices resulting from them are reviewed. Most theories of adult learning are based on research into the learning of children, which in turn is founded upon theories of animal learning. These theories, formulated under laboratory conditions, are artificial at best--and not complex enough to apply…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Behavior Patterns, Human Resources
Gordon, Ira J.; And Others – 1970
This document is a first year report on a project which examines the effectiveness of (1) teaching the mother versus teaching the infant, and (2) using a professional versus using a paraprofessional as the intervening agent. Also being studied is the relationship between the sex of the infant and the way he is taught and the effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Economically Disadvantaged, Home Visits, Infants
Daniels, David N. – 1971
This developmental paper generally describes a task oriented model for teaching about conflict and conflict resolution, using student groups for problem solving, which can be developed in the classroom. The model involves: 1) identification of the issue, topic, or problem by the entire class; 2) identification of ideas, concepts, or facets of…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Concept Teaching, Conflict, Conflict Resolution
St. John, David Richard – 1971
The purpose of this four-group controlled experiment was to ascertain: (1) the effect of a motion model on a learner's performance behavior and (2) the effect of verbal description of the processes included in the demonstration upon a learner's performance behavior. After viewing video tape presentations, one with commentary and one without, of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Experiments
Brown, Doris, Comp. – 1972
This selective abstract bibliography cites documents that are concerned with teachers, parents as teachers, and paraprofessionals involved with children in early childhood education. Entries selected appear in the ERIC Thesaurus (subject index) under these terms: Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Influence, Teacher Role, Teacher Aides, Preschool…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Early Childhood Education, Paraprofessional School Personnel
Ehman, Lee H. – 1972
In this research paper specific teaching tasks important in social studies instruction are described in terms of pre-service teachers' classroom verbal behavior which occurred in a teaching laboratory; and the stability of individual pre-service teachers' behavior while teaching two similar lessons involving a specific task are described and…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Inquiry, Interaction, Intergroup Relations
Murphy, D. M. – 1972
The final report for Cycle 5 of the Alaska Rural Teacher Training Corps (ARTTC) consists of retrospective observations on the program over the period May 1970 through August 1972. The preparation of the report consists of the observations and assessments of the project director. Contents of the report include a project description, program…
Descriptors: Career Opportunities, Educational Benefits, Educational Programs, Elementary Education
Weingarten, Kenneth; And Others – 1972
This report describes the development and pilot testing of a low-cost, generalizable, quality-assured, peer-instructional model suitable to the training needs of men of varying measured aptitude. The report presents a brief overview of the project, followed by a detailed description of the APSTRAT model and the considerations that led to its…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Enlisted Personnel, Individualized Instruction, Job Skills
Brazil. – 1971
This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a Brazilian definition of national education goals. It suggests the adoption of a philosophy of education that will provide a pattern of the kind of education needed in Brazil, namely a combination of modern humanistic culture and technology, by taking into account the…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Administrative Change, Adult Education, Developmental Programs
Stangvik, Gunnar – 1976
The purpose of this paper is to improve knowledge of the interaction between the learner, the teaching arrangement, and the content. For practical purposes the combination of the teaching arrangement and the content has been called the task, as these cannot successfully be treated separately in the teaching-learning process. Through analysis of…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Course Content, Educational Research, Interaction Process Analysis
Harty, Harold – 1976
This study examined the expressed orientations toward education of (1) preservice teachers who opted to participate in student teaching programs in minority settings; (2) preservice teachers who selected conventional student teaching placements; and (3) inservice supervising teachers from both settings. Four student teaching programs provided the…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Conventional Instruction, Cooperating Teachers
Strevens, Peter – 1976
The aim of this paper is to outline one approach to the study of language teaching by proposing a theory of its minimum elements. This model takes as its focus all of the circumstances in which a learner learns and a professional teacher teaches. The language teaching profession deals with many types of learners, teaching/learning conditions,…
Descriptors: Administration, Curriculum Guides, Educational Theories, Evaluation
Mancall, Jacqueline C.; And Others – School Library Media Quarterly, 1986
Discusses recommendations from the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science for defining, developing, and promoting library media programs that teach information finding and using skills. Areas covered include helping students develop thinking skills, theoretical implications of current research on how children process information,…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Utilization
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