Investigates the impetus toward values education in the science curriculum. Provides lists of values which students most often associate with scientists, and compares these with values of society in general. Describes some methods developed for the teaching of values. (CP)

Classroom behaviors of 24 primary reading teachers whose students averaged 1.27 academic years gain per 8 months instruction over the past 3-5 years were observed. Results indicated that, while many of the demonstrated behaviors adhered to advocated practices, several of their behaviors have been strongly criticized in the literature. (Author/NQ)

The techniques of behavior modification are of potentially great value in the schools. (Author)

Competency-based programs offer positive refinement in instructional design, implementation, and evaluation, but a number of unresolved problems offer new challenges and concerns to those teaching educational psychology. (JD)

The reality of affective consequences of mediated instruction may be one of the most critical rationales for the use of media in teaching. (Author/STS)

A course option in abnormal psychology involves students in interviewing and observing the activities of individuals in the off-campus community who are concerned with some aspect of abnormal psychology. The technique generates student interest in the field when they interview people about topics such as drug abuse, transsexualism, and abuse of…

Provided are guidelines for special education teachers to increase the effectiveness of instructional programing. (CL)

Suggests that helping remedial readers identify and improve on effective reading behaviors is just as important as identifying their deficient skill areas. (JM)

The article discusses skills necessary for the development of friendships by the retarded and others including a positive interaction style, sharing and providing support, and conflict resolution. A coaching procedure is presented as a possible means to foster the acquisition and maintenance of friendship skills. (Author/DB)

This study examined the extent to which teachers' expectations for student performance were different in "high" and "low" ability tracks. It also examined the classroom climate in each classroom. In the study's conclusion that teachers are often controlling, restrictive, and inhibiting are suggestions for improvement. (JL)

A procedure is presented for teaching unintelligible children to achieve syllable closure and improve syllable shape through the use of chaining. Chaining can simultaneously teach consonants in pre, post, and intervocalic contexts using functional phrase combinations. A case study of a five-year-old boy treated in kindergarten is included.…

States that Clandinin and Connelly (1987) provide a useful basis for examining teachers' personal knowledge and argues that the personal knowledge that most influences teachers' instructional practice may not be beliefs or theories, but rather how they organize instructional knowledge. Develops the concept of knowledge structures and illustrates…

Presents desirable teaching behaviors that can help teachers provide effective instruction in writing and deal with all three stages of the composing process. (FL)

Twenty-seven teachers participating in the KEEP program were interviewed to determine the extent to which they developed self-regulatory cognition and self-directed speech in response to stressful training conditions. Illustrates how self-speech and self-regulation accompany and aid the acquisition and internalization of new skills. (DR)