Articulated reading programs are critical toward promoting reading attainment. What constitutes the program components to be articulated is an essential question for consideration in the attainment of that goal. Suggests the factors necessary to develop well-articulated reading programs. (Author/RK)

The Instituto Fenix, a language learning school in Cuernavaca, Mexico, features oral language learning and a creative teaching technique to help language students to learn Spanish both effectively and quickly. (RK)

Sets forth the criteria for an individualized instruction program for use with pregnant adolescents. (FL)

In order to meet the differing needs of students, a program utilizing three different levels of instruction with two different curriculums under each level was developed at Christian County High School in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. (Author/RK)

How can the content teacher improve his student's learning of history or math and give them practice in writing at the same time? SSSW (Sustained Student Summary Writing) is one resolution of this issue. (Author)

Describes a unique field experience, an outgrowth of a partnership with Seton Hall University and The Liberty Science Center (New Jersey), that immerses K-12 teachers in innovative methods of learning and teaching science. Notes the program helps teachers gain firsthand experience, use interactive exhibits at a science center, and adopt the…

Long aware of the correlation between various skills, English teachers need suggestions for systematically relating these skills to each other and to course objectives. Here are six suggestions for developing reading skills in the English classroom. (Author/RK)

Leadership training is a form of instruction. As such, it should be guided by a model of instruction. Describes how the Three-Stage Model of Instruction (Feldhusen, Ames and Linden, 1973, 1974) was used to guide the development of thirteen units of leadership instruction for high school youth in vocational organizations. (Author/RK)

Finds reasons for the failure of English teachers to employ methods recommended by research. Offers suggestions for changes in teacher education programs. (SD)

Investigates how the computer can facilitate learning for elementary and middle school students and what aspects of the curriculum can be handled effectively by computers. (Author/RK)

Claims that knowledge about how content, students, and learning interact with pedagogical knowledge when decisions are made in the teaching environment must be a central concern of teacher education programs. Provides a model by which an awareness of such knowledge can be imparted. (HB)

Argues that all students are gifted in different ways, and proposes that instruction should focus on fostering gifted behaviors rather than on "gifted" students. Defines gifted behaviors that should be fostered and presents a program by which they can be achieved. (HB)

With the understanding that law is an ever present part of our lives from birth to death, Law Focused Education, Inc. is attempting to develop a program that will reach students from kindergarten through grade twelve. The program's emphasis is in the area of social studies and attempts to teach significant concepts of law to students. (Author/RK)

Map reading offers insights into a kind of literacy and communication area which involves the printed word with pictorial and symbolic representations. A method for developing basic skills in map reading within the confines of the classroom was described. (Author/RK)