Describes a flexibly designed set of activities used to teach physical science to education students. The activities in these units place the students in situations in which they must make sense out of their experiences and provides the instructor with opportunities for individualized instruction. (MLH)

Drafting courses at the Beverly Hills High School, California, are taught with the aid of checksheets providing step-by-step instructions of how to proceed through the course, with student work and grade records for each step. The drafting laboratory, courses, and the checksheet system are described. (MF)

Several citations selected from the ERIC data base, are presented to aid educators involved in the development, implementation, and evaluation of individualized programs for handicapped children in the regular classroom. (MM)

PTEP engages both teacher and student in analyzing student needs and forming an educational program based on student choices, using (1) repeated feedback and counseling, (2) assignment of instructional tasks contingent upon student characteristics, and (3) self-observation and feedback on the student's teaching behavior. (MB)

Outlines some of the areas that have special significance for elementary and middle school principals in the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975. Issues include availability of education, physical education classes, individualized instruction, and due process for parents. (Author/IRT)

Individually Guided Education (IGE) in elementary mathematics is explained and described. The basic assumptions about the nature of students and their learning of mathematics are set forth, and the steps needed to plan and organize an IGE program are detailed. (SD)

Self-paced instruction is compared with traditional instruction on several dimensions. Overall achievement levels, affective outcomes, long-range effects, attribute-treatment interactions, and cost are all examined on the basis of the research literature available. (SD)

Examines regression analysis of 12 aptitude measures and an achievement criterion measure in a study of 285 ninth-grade science students who were randomly assigned to one of four individualized programs: teacher-directed treatment, media treatment, reading treatment, and programmed instruction treatment. (MLH)

Describes a Montessori teacher's experience with a sufferer of Tourette's syndrome, a dysfunction characterized by motor and vocal tics. Studies the progress over a school year, including work on academic skills utilizing the Montessori method and behavior. Shares research, successes, and failures in trying to reach the child. (SD)

Personalization is achieved when teachers and students have the time and the desire to develop a relationship. One Georgia high school lends itself to personalization by encouraging a mentoring relationship between teachers and students. Developing academic teaching teams and block schedules for all grades was the key to reducing teacher isolation…

Cheshire (Connecticut) High School was given a clear mandate to renew itself. Initially resistant faculty became enthusiastic while helping the principal develop a renewal framework stressing interdisciplinary instructional practices, integrated skill targets and assessment procedures, international awareness themes, large-scale technological…

Cyber Adviser software aids course planning by checking entrance requirements, automatically recommending courses, automatically designing a curriculum that can be manually modified, and automatically planning a student's course sequence for up to three years. Describes how the advising staff at Valencia Community College (FL) uses Cyber Adviser…

Explains the origin and goals of cognitive flexibility theory and discusses new directions being explored. Topics include hypermedia systems; multiple knowledge representations; interconnectedness; context-dependency; digital video cases; experience acceleration; and bridging knowledge and practice, cognitive, individualistic practices and…