Describes severely handicapped student enrolled in a summer program designed to train teachers to work with the severely impaired and to demonstrate that learning is possible for all children. A behavioristic task-analysis model of instruction was used. (MS)

Authors discuss crazymaking; distorted feedback in communications children have with others. Examples and results of distorted communication are discussed in addition to ways in which these distortions inhibit a child's construction of reality and ways to prevent distorted feedback. (HS)

Discusses a high school laboratory in which the students take an active role in designing, implementing, and performing experiments concerning basic concepts in physics. (MLH)

Describes a general physical science course employing primarily original readings and taught by a free type of discussion rather than direct teaching. (MLH)

Discussed is the nature of problems for students and teachers in the social studies which are caused by a lack of basic reading skills. Eleven suggestions for teachers on improving student reading levels are presented. (Author/DB)

Topics, materials, and assignments are provided for 49 literature lessons for tenth grade, plus review notes. Subject matter includes Gorky, Mayakovsky, Soviet literature in the 1920s, the 1930s, Tolstoi, the Great Patriotic War, Sholokhov, and modern foreign literature. (ND)

The use of fiction reading is discussed for teaching Latin American regional geography courses, particularly for studying cultural conflict, revolution, and description of landscape and life-styles. A suggested reading list is included. (ND)

While art education and art therapy each have distinctive features, they are not totally separate entities in the educational field, since overlap occurs in setting, subjects, training, theoretical orientation, and program content. (MB)

An inservice course is outlined for elementary school teachers on behavior modification and open classrooms; results support the observation that inservice courses for teachers are a reasonably efficient, effective, and economical way to change teacher behavior. (MB)

Author argues for greater attention to be given to learning through images rather than concepts. (Editor/RK)

The "Magic Circle" program is used with deaf children in an effort to improve self concepts and interpersonal relationships and also to improve language growth. The "Magic Circle" program is described in detail. (HMV)

Factors leading to recognition of the value of acoustic amplification, as employed in the Auditory Global approach to educating hearing impaired children, include the identification of auditory ability differences in children called deaf, the contribution of acoustic phonetics to the understanding of speech perception, and early and comprehensive…

Describes a training workshop for women, designed to provide them with additional information needed to move ahead in their jobs and to help them gain a heightened sense of self-confidence and self-worth. (WL)