Teaching methods seem to work with some students and fail with others, because every learner is unique. Teachers must be able to identify learning styles and find ways for instruction to match those styles. This paper moves from an overview of different learning styles to a review of the use of computer-assisted instruction. A recent development…

The Rufugee Education Project in Tucson, Arizona, supplemented its traditional group English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) classes for adult refugees with individualized ESL literacy instruction in August 1990. A $500 grant made possible the acquisition of a variety of literacy materials that could meet diverse student literacy needs. Fifty-three…

This guide is designed to help educators become better television teachers through the use of interactive television classroom teaching techniques. The first section discusses ways to deliver effective personalized instruction through the use of interaction techniques designed to enhance the teacher student relationship; presentation techniques…

This discussion of the design of user-initiated help systems in computers focuses on the information that users actively seek to help them with their tasks, with emphasis on how to help users ask the questions that will bridge the gap between the initial internal (mental) form of the query and their information need as expressed by the system.…

One of a series of documents produced by a nationwide network of early childhood education specialists, teachers, parents, and Head Start staff, the document contains a language arts skills continuum to be used as a tool for individualizing instruction for students learning basic educational skills. A comprehensive set of learner objectives for…

An individualized learning package provides step-by-step instruction in the fundamentals of the etching process. Thirteen specific behavioral objectives are listed. A pretest, consisting of matching 15 etching terms with their definitions, is provided along with an answer key. The remainder of the learning package teaches the 13 steps of the…

This report evaluates Boston's Title I Elementary Reading and Mathematics School Programs for 1980-81. Ninety-eight percent of students enrolled in the programs received Title I instruction five days a week. Instruction was highly individualized, and teachers and aides used individualized daily planning. On the average, students attended school on…

Both the Apple and TRS-80 microcomputer units are being used in the department of physical education at George Mason University (Virginia). As a first step, a computer program was developed and used in conjunction with an aerobic and personal conditioning class. (The capabilities of this specific program are discussed, and the ways in which it was…

The first section of this guide presents the Individualized Career Education Planning (ICEP) system, which provides major organizing and implementing components for comprehensive, individualized career guidance and instruction including: ICEP forms for recording career development goals and short-term objectives, guidance and instructional…

The attitudes of thirty-three secondary school student teachers toward individualizing instruction were assessed by the administration both before and after student teaching of the Individualized Instruction Inventory: these students were part of an experimental program in which each was assigned to an inner-city ghetto school. (Author/JM)

A computer-based resource unit in health and physical education would enable health and physical educators to share the benefits of each other's work. (RC)

Calls for increased attention by colleges to articulate their efforts with those of earlier schooling, out of school learning, and subsequent life-long learning, both formal and informal. Discusses various social trends which increase the need for attention to articulation. (JT)

Thirty-six studies on individualizing instruction in arithmetic are reviewed, and the general findings emerging from the combined research are discussed. (SD)

A pilot course in mastery learning in a survey course in English literature at the Beirut University College is described. The course was designed to increase the retention of knowledge and skills of students of another culture, utilizing the lecture-discussion method and the mastery learning concepts. (Author/RM)