In this book, health education is conceived not only as a broad curriculum embracing all the elements relating to the improvement of the quality of life but also as a series of health-related experiences under the direction of physicians, nurses, dentists, teachers, and other professional personnel. The book is intended for college and university…

This paper describes a program to completely redesign teacher education at Syracuse University into a program that is personalized, systemic, self-paced, modularized, diagnostic, competence oriented, multimodal, regenerative, comprehensive, criterion referenced, and field centered. The program includes five major components. The first component is…

The papers in this booklet both share a growing concern that every aspect of reading instruction should make sense to the learner and focus attention on the way in which children comprehend what is required of them. The papers include "Effective Teachers of Reading Know Language and Children"; "ERIC/RCS Report: Jean's Influence on Dick and Jane,"…

This issue of the "Arizona English Bulletin" provides ideas, suggests materials, and discusses techniques that may prove useful to English teachers who are also responsible for teaching intermediate, junior, and senior high school students how to read. The contents include "Reading, Language, and Thinking,""A Good English Teacher Is a Teacher of…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether students' pertinent questioning skill and their ability to make connections between given information and other verbal information (implications) would be improved more by teacher-initiated (T) or student-initiated (S) data-collecting questions. A group of 56 pupils in seventh- and ninth-grade…

For information on the Visual Arts Education Curriculum of which this is one course, see SO 007 721. In this course students study ceramic material, form, and decoration, historically and technically, and demonstrate competencies in preparing clay bodies and ceramic glazes. Course content is outlined in those areas. Special sections of the guide…

This instructor's guide for a modular sequence in English as a second language is itself in modular format. It presents the rationale for, and the objectives and organization of, the sequence modules as well as management guidelines for the instructor, including checklist forms for each module in sequence. The objective of the entire sequence is…

This module provides theoretical aspects of listening comprehension and practical teaching suggestions. Learning activities are designed to achieve the following objectives: (a) explain briefly a theory of the speech process; (b) define redundancy, semantic encoding, phonic patterning, and phonological decoding; (c) enumerate and explain the…

This module provides a theoretical overview of the process and skills of second-language reading and practical classroom applications. The learning activities are designed to aid the participant in achieving the following objectives: (a) distinguish the characteristics of three categories of the second-language readers; (b) explain the stages of…

This learning module is designed to provide the prospective teacher of English as a second language with an overview of the major methods and techniques used in ESL in the past and those in current use. The objectives of the module are to enable the student to: (a) define "method"; (b) compare and contrast the various features of the…

Recently, a model was developed for use in gathering data and making evaluations in a systematic manner. The purpose of this study was to adapt the model for evaluation of the graduates of the teacher preparation program of Tennessee Technological University. A sample of 59 graduates of the teacher preparation program of the university, who were…

A comparison of research and development and teacher competency assessment activities is divided into two tasks: (1) selection and cataloging of competencies; and (2) development of instruments and procedures to assess competencies for diagnostic training and selection. Similarities and differences in selecting and cataloging teacher competencies…

A system was designed and pilot tested for the evaluation of the products of educational research and development centers and laboratories. The products developed were: (1) a detailed specification of the evaluation procedure; (2) an empirically derived, validated, and reliable product taxonomy; (3) criteria for evaluation; and (4) the forms,…

The book is designed to assist instructors of adults, particularly those who are part-time and beginning, in managing their educational programs effectively. It is written to be understood by instructors who may not have a background of training in education or who have a limited amount of time available to acquire teaching skills. The five…

This paper reports briefly on some recent efforts to find a process for delineating people's needs as a basis for establishing criteria in designing and evaluating educational services. The paper is designed to help educational decisionmakers learn how to get useful information about needs. The authors have tentatively identified a class of…