The Visual Response System (VRS), a specially constructed resource room, has three powerful instructional features: (1) active student response, (2) immediate feedback, and (3) student-student interaction. Suggestions are offered for adapting the VRS system to the conventional classroom. Methods for increasing student response, providing feedback,…

The article describes a management system used in a secondary resource program for exceptional students that incorporates a clinical teaching model, task analysis, and the use of management objectives to provide individualized services. Five-year evaluation data reveal increased completion of assignments, decreased teacher preparation, and a more…

"Transenvironmental programming" is presented as a databased approach for promoting regular class success for handicapped students by carefully programing resource room instruction. An experimental study, with a 12-year-old student with behavior problems and academic deficiencies, is described which supports the efficacy of the approach.…