This scoping review investigates the potential of bite-sized learning approach in music education. The review identified articles from Scopus and ERIC databases, revealing that bite-sized learning is widely discussed in the field of ICT, mathematics, and medicine. Bite-sized learning is pedagogical and pragmatic, providing easy access,…

Responding to the need for fine-grained investigation of what adaptive teaching entails, this article reports on 88 qualitative lesson observations with highly competent teachers. The findings illustrate how, amidst the unpredictable flow of classroom life, the participant teachers fashioned a power dynamic with students that was asymmetric and…

The purpose of this pilot study was to investigate the effect of instruction differentiation in preventive classroom management strategies on preservice teachers' selected behaviors. Results indicated no significant main effect for treatment condition, and significant main effects for lesson type and microteaching session. Findings indicated that…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of instruction differentiation in preventive classroom management strategies on early childhood and elementary preservice teachers' selected behaviors during assigned classroom teaching of music instruction to peers. Participants were early childhood and elementary preservice teachers (N = 7)…

This paper provides an account of professional learning in action through documenting the experiences of three upper primary teachers as they engaged in reflection-on-action with the assistance of an academic mentor. Video-stimulated recall was used as a mechanism to encourage productive reflective practice, using video footage of each teacher's…

Instructors in the Department of Education at Purdue University have developed a combination of educational innovations called "Individualized Instructional Analysis System (IIAS)." The system is a combination of microteaching, interactional analysis, and audio-tutorial techniques. The microteaching aspect employs a teacher who teaches a…

The purpose of this article is to consider, first, some of the implications of using the videotape recorder in the television studio for in-school music instruction...and, second, some of the present-day practices of using smaller videotape recorders in the classroom and teaching studio for individualized instruction." (Author)

Five European universities engaged in a cooperative program of research and development involving the adaptation of a microteaching unit developed in the U.S. (BD)

Microteaching has been suggested as a useful method for teacher training since it is "real teaching" and because it focuses on the training of specific tasks. (DMT)

Article considered some general directions for elementary education, which were inferred from a brief overview of the major trends since the early 1960's. (Author/RK)

The minicourse Individualizing Instruction in Mathematics" by the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development is described. (RS)

Includes brief description of all minicourses completed or under development. (RT)

This document suggests ways in which competency based education (CBE) offers a productive direction for education in a society of rapid environmental change. Part one discusses as a primary mission of the teacher providing a positive and affectionate model for children who have experienced little personal interaction at home. It also definds the…