This study examined the effects of a professional development (PD) intervention on inservice teachers' use of embedded instruction practices within inclusive preschool classrooms. The results of a multiple baseline across participants design suggested the PD intervention was effective in increasing teachers' implementation fidelity of embedded…

This paper theorises a curriculum model containing four features. We use these features as criteria to analyse and evaluate two distinctive curriculum design types: '21st Century Learning' and 'Powerful Knowledge'. The four features are: (i) the underpinning theory of knowledge in each curriculum design type; (ii) the knowledge structures used to…

Current educational reform calls for increased integration between science and mathematics to overcome the shortcomings in students' quantitative skills. Data Nuggets (free online resource, http://datanuggets.org) are worksheets that bring data into the classroom, repeatedly guiding students through the scientific method and making claims…

Program slicing, a variant of the psychometric method of evaluation, is described to be useful to teachers for evaluating and modifying instructional materials for specific needs of individual children or groups of children. (MC)

When teachers understand how to teach differently, students will learn to write and transcribe shorthand in much less time than is thought possible. (Author)

"In Part I of a two-part series, polysensory learning is defined in the context of a multi-media instructional system. (Editor)

The instructional system is designed so that each student may be treated as an individual. The role of the instructor must also be changed to accomplish this goal. (Author)

The General Teaching Model is a procedural guide for the design, implementation, evaluation, and improvement of instruction. The Model is considered applicable to all levels of education, all subject matters, and any length of instructional unit. It consists of four components: 1) instructional objectives, 2) pre-assessment, 3) instructional…

The use of stated behavioral objectives and student learning contracts, planned and prepared by student and teacher, as teaching methods are discussed and an example of a learning contract is presented. (JB)

Through the types and steps of individualized instruction described in this article, it is hoped that bookkeeping and accounting teachers will be able to implement this method to a greater extent than in the past. (Author/JS)

The author describes a methodology which will help an accounting teacher individualize an introductory course; instruction sheets provide a lesson-plan format for the beginning teacher. Students proceed at their own rates, developing traits of independence while being actively involved in learning. (A sample job instruction sheet is included.) (AJ)