A resume is presented of findings of ongoing research on the designing of strategies for conducting individual training. Studies being done, both in laboratory and operational training settings, are assessing the impact of individual differences, task variables, and training methods on strategy design. The findings are seen as directly relevant to…

Learning systems for management development consist of classroom-based systems and job-based systems. Management development as viewed from the eclectic approach is a highly individual matter. Higher priority will be placed on training the individual rather than training the group; and the needs of the individual will have relevance to the needs…

The author discusses aspects of "compacting," a procedure that involves pretesting by a teacher to ascertain skills of a gifted student, and utilization of the teacher's knowledge of objectives and goals in specific subjects such as mathematics and reading to develop a learning plan for the student. (Author/MC)

Describes how to teach college composition through individual conferences with students. (DD)

Introduction: The College des medecins du Quebec (CMQ) offers an individualized remedial professional development program to help physicians overcome selected clinical shortcomings. To measure the influence of the remedial professional development program, physicians who completed the program between 1993 and 2004 and who were assessed by peer…

This paper explores one-to-one teaching in an academy of music as culturally constituted. Taking Foucault's concept of discursive practice as a point of departure, the practice of two instrumental teachers is analysed and compared with regards to how the teachers adopt professional discourses to construct their teaching in quite distinct ways, and…

Despite an unprecedented increase in classroom-based support staff, there are confusing messages about their appropriate deployment and a lack of systematic evidence on their impact. This article addresses the deployment and impact on pupil engagement and individual attention of support staff, commonly known as teaching assistants (TAs), in terms…

THE METHODS FOR DETERMINING PUPIL READINESS WERE STUDIED TO DEVELOP CRITERIA FOR PUPIL PARTICIPATION IN SIMULATED ENVIRONMENT LEARNING UNITS. THE LEARNING UNITS WERE SUBPROJECTS OF COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT NUMBER 1948 (ED 003 024). EACH OF THREE UNITS IN THE PROJECT WAS EXAMINED FOR PUPIL READINESS. TEST BATTERIES WERE ASSEMBLED AND…

Audiovisual aids are properly used in reading when they "turn students on," and they are abused when they fail to do so or when they actually "turn students off." General guidelines one could use in sorting usable from unusable aids are (1) Has the teacher saved time by using an audiovisual aid? (2) Is the aid appropriate to the sophistication…

This article is a brief account of a crisis teacher,'' freed of regular classroom duties, who works as a special education teacher. (JA)