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McCarthy, Margaret E. – 1987
This is a qualitative study of science teaching for non-academic students in secondary school. Evidence from earlier studies suggested that few variations in teaching strategies are being used for non-academic students. This investigator categorizes certain pertinent teaching features which, if emphasized, have the potential to enhance the…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Classroom Techniques, Foreign Countries, Grade 10
Strickland, Dorothy S. – 1983
Language learning is complex and mysterious--because of the many diverse factors that affect its development and because of the many unanswered questions about its nature. Even so, the efforts of countless researchers have provided sufficient knowledge to prompt some recommendations about how adults may nurture the language and literacy…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Cognitive Development, English Instruction, Higher Education
Copa, Patricia M.; Sandmann, Lorilee R. – 1987
A study was conducted to determine what distinguishes the practice of competent educators from that of untrained persons or colleagues who are less skilled. The population for the study was cooperative extension educators. Five individuals identified by district and state leaders as being exemplary in their practice were followed for three days…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Educational Improvement, Extension Agents
Teacher Education Conference Board, Albany, NY. – 1981
Effective teachers not only remain abreast of new developments in their fields, but strive toward increased mastery of teaching skills by continually extending and refining the specialized knowledge acquired prior to entering the profession. Teachers are expected to lead active intellectual lives and to evince a breadth of erudition that will…
Descriptors: Individual Development, Interpersonal Competence, Outcomes of Education, Peer Relationship
Bird, Cindy – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2005
Cultures determine identity in that they prescribe the "food, festivals, and fashion" of their members; for example, rap music, baggy pants and gestured dancing identify the hip hop culture (recognizable to both "members" and "non-members"). Cultural identities are created and maintained by "literacy"--the…
Descriptors: Literacy, School Culture, Cultural Influences, Social Influences
Bough, Max, Ed. – Journal of Children and Youth, 1979
This journal provides 12 brief articles focused on open education. Topics explored include (1) open education and reading, (2) mainstreaming, (3) characteristics of an open teacher, (4) administration of an open concept school, (5) an existential methodology in the language arts, (6) social studies in open education, (7) open education in early…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Programs, Individualized Reading
MACKEY, WILLIAM F. – 1967
THE PURPOSE OF THIS DOCUMENT IS TO DISCUSS THE PROBLEMS INVOLVED IN THE OBSERVATION, PRACTICE, AND CRITICISM PHASES OF PRACTICE TEACHING IN THE LANGUAGE TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAM, AND TO GIVE AN ACCOUNT OF THE PROPER USE OF VIDEOTAPE IN THE MORE EFFICIENT AND LESS TIME-CONSUMING PERFORMANCE OF THESE ACTIVITIES. AFTER PINPOINTING THE PROBLEM OF…
Descriptors: Closed Circuit Television, Language Teachers, Lesson Observation Criteria, Methods Courses
Melaragno, Ralph J.; Newmark, Gerald – 1968
In order to bridge the gap between educational research and practice, a study was concluded to identify specific reading skills which posed particularly difficult problems for Mexican American first grade children, but apparently caused little difficulty for their Anglo counterparts. Seventeen words emerged as being particularly difficult for the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, English (Second Language), Grade 1, Individualized Reading
Gordon, Edmund W. – 1968
This report results from the efforts of a committee established to make suggestions for the use of a $10 million fund for the improvement of the New York City (NYC) elementary schools. The committee, consisting of school administrators, an educational specialist, and representatives from the United Federation of Teachers and the United Parents…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Day Schools, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Improvement

Heffernan-Cabrera, Patricia; Tikunoff, William J. – 1977
This document presents a teaching model established at the Rural-Migrant School of Education in California. Students in this school are preparing to teach children of Mexican-American descent and face the necessity of dealing with cultural and language differences that are unique to the area. While instruction is oriented toward the philosophy of…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Competency Based Teacher Education, Cross Cultural Training, Humanistic Education
Council on Social Work Education, New York, NY. – 1975
Both students and faculty in social work education find field instruction to be both rewarding and puzzling. Unquestionably, much of the genius of social work education has been an intermingling of conceptual and experiential learning. These eleven papers cover experiences in a variety of graduate and undergraduate social work field settings. It…
Descriptors: Community Services, Educational Innovation, Field Experience Programs, Higher Education
Kourilsky, Marilyn L. – 1974
This publication presents a set of successfully field-tested teaching procedures for helping children in grades 3-6 generate a working economic system in their classroom. The developer believes that children will learn economic concepts through real, as opposed to vicarious, experience by playing active, rather than passive, roles in learning…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Concept Teaching, Decision Making Skills, Economics Education
Limbacher, Philip Carl – 1968
To substantiate the theoretical efficacy of microteaching with videotaped feedback, 25 student teachers were assigned to a Teaching Techniques Laboratory in which microteaching methods were emphasized. Following completion of the training program, participants and a control group with no laboratory experience received placement in Chicago area…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Equipment, Evaluation Methods, Experimental Groups
Levine, Toby; And Others – 1966
What better way is there to learn about something than to hold it, examine it, and take it apart? The Match Box Project (Materials and Activities for Teachers and Children) loans to schools a series of boxes which contain materials, equipment, supplies, and activities designed as a unit to foster the teaching/learning of specific subjects at the…
Descriptors: Discovery Processes, Educational Strategies, Experiential Learning, Experimental Teaching
Ryan, T. Antoinette – 1974
Adult career education holds a great potential for redirecting and correcting offenders and for continuing development of staff in corrections. A systems approach to adult career education in the corrections setting can make this potential become a reality. This paper describes the implementation of systems research in this area. The process of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education, Career Development, Career Education