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Fowler, Susan A.; Lewman, Beverly – 1998
This final report discusses the activities and outcomes of the SPARK (Skills Promoted through Arts, Reading, and Knowledge) demonstration project, a project designed to provide inservice training and a preschool curriculum to enable professional early childhood staff to use literacy and the arts to promote the skill development of young children…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Childrens Literature, Classroom Techniques, Creative Art
Hollenbeck, Keith; Tindal, Gerald – Diagnostique, 1996
A study compared the performance of 21 sixth graders receiving Title I services, 13 with learning disabilities, 9 gifted students, and 58 others on a legal knowledge test after a 3-week course in a mainstream setting. The groups differed significantly on declarative knowledge tasks, but not on procedural and conditional knowledge tasks. Results…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Cooperative Learning, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Strategies

Astleitner, Hermann; Leutner, Detlev – Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, 1994
Contends that, for several years, the benefits of computers in schools and vocational training have been undisputed. Asserts that an evaluation of instructional functions reveals several shortcomings. Presents a classification scheme of teaching models and specific skills that should be stressed in future teacher training. (CFR)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Change

Keefe, Charlotte Hendrick; Hoge, Debra Reichert – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1996
This paper offers a collaborative service delivery model and suggestions for language intervention strategies, goals, and assessment for students with behavioral disorders, to be implemented by teachers and speech-language pathologists. The intervention strategies can be integrated with academic and behavioral objectives. (DB)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Disorders, Communication Skills, Cooperative Programs

McKenna, Elaine M. – Teaching and Change, 1996
A fifth-grade classroom teacher and a reading specialist changed the classroom structure from teacher-centered to student-centered, using flexible grouping, students' choice of literature, student journals, and student-driven discussion groups. They found that students' motivation and interest in reading improved over time. (SM)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Discussion Groups, Elementary School Students
Harrison, Neil – Australian Journal of Education, 2004
This paper is based on research conducted with indigenous students at a university in the Northern Territory. It examines crosscultural theories of education which explain the problems of teaching and learning in indigenous contexts in terms of the cultural mismatch between the home and school environment. These theories position the teacher as…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Educational Theories, Social Theories
Gerwin, David – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2003
A "Motivation" eliciting the "Aim" of each lesson initiates each lesson in the orthodox "developmental lesson-plan" that has dominated classroom instruction in NYC public schools for at least the past half-century. An action-research study of 38 lesson-plans (over 5 each from 5 teachers) drawn from student-teaching…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Teaching Models, Teacher Effectiveness, Lesson Plans
Parpart, M. Leslie – 1995
Gifted students represent an under-served population in the education system, especially at the middle school level. These students require special attention in regard to their social and emotional needs. The first section of this paper explores the literature pertaining to the education of gifted middle school students and the definition and role…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academically Gifted, Class Organization, Cluster Grouping
Derlin, Roberta; McShannon, Judy – 1996
This paper describes the Action Research (AR) Team model for joining classroom observations with collegial interaction among university faculty, teaching assistants, and university students to improve pedagogy and the retention of diverse students in higher education. The paper includes a progress report of efforts to develop the model and apply…
Descriptors: Action Research, Blacks, Classroom Observation Techniques, College Faculty
Alibrandi, Marsha; Seigel, Susan – 1996
This study examined student and instructor reflection upon a 2-year teacher education seminar designed to provide experiential and theoretical grounding in democratic pedagogy. Through conversation-as-research, instructors interpreted group dynamics in their conversations during breaks, lunch hours, and evenings throughout the seminar. The central…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Communication, Conflict Resolution, Course Objectives
Barreto, Ramona Maile – 1996
This study examined California's new system of bilingual and cross cultural teacher preparation, its implementation, and teacher candidates' reception of it. The new system, referred to as (B)CLAD, consists of two credentials for preservice teachers and two certificates for inservice teachers: the Cross Cultural Language and Academic Development,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Case Studies, College Students, Constructivism (Learning)
Garland, Corinne W.; Frank, Adrienne – 1998
This report discusses a project designed to replicate a five-step model of inservice training which will help early intervention teams provide more family-centered, transdisciplinary service delivery. During 1995-1998, the Trans/Team Outreach program provided training and technical assistance to early intervention teams in eight states and…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education
Kimmel, Howard; Muldrow, Diana; O'Shea, Mark; Deek, Fadi – 1998
This paper describes Project SMART (Science and Math Access: Resources & Technology), a multi-year professional development effort that includes components for all adults who regularly have contact with children with disabilities. The common goal of each of the components is the development of both efficacy and capacity to inspire children with…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Classroom Environment, Disabilities
Gettys, Cynthia M.; Holt, Mary Ann – 1993
This study sought to determine how teachers (n=61) at two Paideia schools in Chattanooga (Tennessee) perceived the professional staff development activities provided for them as they made the transition from a traditional direct instruction model of teaching to a nontraditional three-column model of instruction which included didactic…
Descriptors: Conventional Instruction, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Educational Methods, Elementary School Teachers
Derewetzky, Solomon – 1993
This report documents the evaluation of Project Unity, a New York City short-term teacher inservice training program designed to improve teacher competence in providing instruction to children of limited English proficiency (LEP). The Project served a total of 119 teachers of LEP students in both special and general education classes in 18…
Descriptors: Consultation Programs, Cultural Awareness, Elementary Education, Inservice Teacher Education