Straightforward, practical, and user friendly, this unique guide addresses an essential component of decision making in schools. The authors show how systematic screenings of behavior--used in conjunction with academic data--can enhance teachers' ability to teach and support all students within a response-to-intervention framework. Chapters review…

Within a group of advanced learners, the variety of abilities, talents, interests, and learning styles can be formidable. For the first time, this book connects the unique learning differences among gifted students to the specific teaching methods used to tailor their educational experiences. Differentiated instruction for gifted and talented…

In this competency-based teacher education module, the participant is given the opportunity to work in a group where the focus is on feedback to the participant about his interaction with the group. The module is concerned with the participant's ability to share with others. It is composed of seminar groups and other group activities. (JA)

Educators from around the state, with the help of The Vermont Institutes, developed Vermont Physical Education Grade Cluster Expectations (GCEs) as a means to identify the physical education content knowledge and skills expected of all students for local assessment required under Act 68. This work was accomplished using the "Vermont's…

Suggestology is the scientific study of the psychology of suggestion and Suggestopedia in the application of relaxation and suggestion techniques to learning. The approach applied to learning processes (called Suggestopedic) developed by Dr. Georgi Lozanov (called the Lozanov Method) utilizes mental and physical relaxation, deep breathing,…

The Achieving-Behaving-Caring (ABC) Program is an evidence-based approach to addressing the needs of elementary students at risk for emotional and behavioral difficulties and promoting successful home-school collaboration. This practical guide demonstrates how classroom teachers and parents can work together to boost individual children's…

This monograph seeks to help teachers focus on the development and maintenance of positive attitudes toward reading. Selected research studies are reviewed in order to delineate variables apparently associated with attitudes. Techniques for assessing attitudes are also reviewed, and advice is given on kinds of item-sampling, methods of…

This competency-based teacher education module is designed so that the participant can become more effective in solving his or her problems by working through four stages. The four stages are: (a) verbally state your problem; (b) restate your problem and determine how you are involved in the problem; (c) restate your problem and emphasize your…

This guide was designed to assist the educator in designing and implementing a program in affective education by introducing him to affective education, attempting to make him feel comfortable with it, and enabling him to improve his skills in the affective domain. The first chapter introduces the affective domain, discusses its importance, and…

This report describes the nature and function of humanistic interviewing in the exchange of information. This interviewing process recognized the human side of the transfer of information involving insight, growth, and further understanding. The report examines the purposes and types of interviews, questionnaire construction, the interviewing…

This competency-based teacher education module focuses on decision making. It is stated that in this module the participant will make a tentative commitment toward a certain course of action, receive feedback from his/her surroundings and peers as to the adequacy and appropriateness of the commitment, then reshape the commitment into a different…

This document contains 18 structured learning sessions featuring fables, nursery rhymes and directed day dreams to help elementary school students become aware of themselves and their feelings. Each session is a self-contained unit, so the sessions may be used separately or as a developmental sequence. The primary goals of the book are to help…

This booklet describes a systematic procedure for developing and writing performance objectives for any instructional environment. In developing performance objectives, their six elements must be kept in mind: the learners, the behavior, the areas of instruction, the methods of measurement, the time limits and/or prerequisites, and the level of…

This catalog, intended for inservice program directors, describes a large number of activities for evaluating the impact of teacher inservice workshops on learner gains. The first description explains how to provide an activity-by-activity evaluation measure that identifies objectives, time period, resources, personnel, and success of outcome. The…

This program guide was prepared by the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol Information of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Its purpose is to assist program planners in the development of strategies to minimize the abuse of alcoholic beverages by youths. It provides information and direction to: (1) youth-serving organizations…