This is a program report on the Metcalf Microteaching Project at Illinois State University, 1969. Microteaching is defined as an act of teaching reduced in terms of the amount of content taught (a single concept, principle, or skill), the number of pupils instructed (three to five), and the time allotted (10 to 15 minutes). A prime benefit of…

A teacher's daily record of activities and strategies for teaching arithmetic to a class of first grade students exclusively through the use of Cuisenaire rods is described. Worksheets and the mid-term test are included. A short evaluation of the results of the instructional method concludes the paper. (DT)

This is a collection of activities for individual or small group work. All can be done with a minimum of teacher direction. Major topics are: (1) measurement--length, area, and volume; (2) geometric shapes--triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, and three-dimensional; (3) graphing in the plane and use of statistical graphs; and (4) angular…

In the study, one of each of pairs of average and high ability eighth-grade classes was designated, by random means, as the experimental class. Students in the experimental classes viewed projected 2 x 2 colored slides which represented sequences of the same laboratory activities as those performed by the manipulative group. All other…

A laboratory experiment was conducted with 28 Black and white, male and female Educators in dyadic interaction with a B/w, M/F stranger of fixed location, position, and gaze. Race and sex of stranger influenced Educator-set impersonator distance, gaze and bodily orientation in a one-minute encounter as hypothesized. If many school personnel do…

Mental and physical models are treated in the Australian Science Education Project trial unit prepared for students in a transitional stage between concrete and abstract reasoning. Students are introduced to the particle model of matter through a series of core activities, including a combination game using nuts and bolts, culminating in a…

This unit, providing information about human nutrition and energy use, has been prepared for students whose level of thinking is transitional between concrete and formal stages. The unit is based upon an analogy between combustion and respiration and upon the molecular structure of food components. The core portion of the unit presents activities…

This manual describes the techniques for evaluating the capacities of and projecting the requirements for office and research facilities. The procedures and techniques presented and illustrated constitute the core of a valid process to which must be added the unique elements of the institution or agency putting them to use. (For related documents,…

Recognizing that the tenets of behaviorism and structuralism are being questioned today by the advocates of the new cognitive-transformationalist theory, the authors represented in this collection of papers redefine the potential role and discuss the function of the language laboratory in second language acquisition. Papers given at the 1970…

A course in introduction to music emphasizing modes and forms is presented. A laboratory approach in which pupils are to develop skill in playing keyboard instruments, sing, listen to, read and compose music with emphasis on identification of elementary concepts of mode and form is used. Course objectives include: (1) The student will select the…

This report submitted by Advocate Team No. 2 to the U.S. Office of Education, Division of Research and Development Resources (formerly Division of Manpower and Institutions) presents a proposed evaluation system for regional labs and R&D centers consisting of a two-tiered panel organization. The tiers are: (1) A Master Panel--a blue-ribbon…

THROUGH A REVIEW OF LITERATURE, STUDIES OF EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES, AND VISITS TO JUNIOR COLLEGES IN WASHINGTON AND CALIFORNIA, GUIDELINES WERE DEVELOPED FOR DATA PROCESSING PROGRAMS IN THE LOS ANGELES JUNIOR COLLEGES. ACCORDING TO ONE STUDY, IN BUSINESS APPLICATIONS, 70 PERCENT OF EMPLOYEES HAD A.A. DEGREES OR LESS. IN SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS,…

THESE READINGS ON COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP TRAINING APPLY ELEMENTS OF LABORATORY TRAINING TO NEEDS AND ROLE DEMANDS OF COMMUNITY CHANGE AGENTS. THE COMMUNITY IS SEEN AS A SOCIAL SYSTEM CHARACTERIZED BY DISTINCT PATTERNS OF BEHAVIOR AND INTERACTION, AND SUBJECT TO ACCELERATING SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE. THE AUTHOR DISCUSSES…

A survey of the accredited teacher education centers in the Region VII states of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska was conducted to answer four questions: (1) What attention has been given to the preparation of educators for the rural and non-urban schools in recent times? (2) Where are the colleges and universities located which are preparing…

This booklet contains a series of worksheets on the metric system to be used with students at the elementary school level. Twenty of the worksheets are concerned with linear measurement, four with area, ten with mass, and four with capacity. (DT)