Microcomputers are not necessarily a desirable teaching/learning tool for young children. Learning styles of the preschool child are not often compatible with computer assisted instruction techniques. An examination of the types of available programing activities and software is presented. (DF)

A description of the fourth-grade reading program includes discussion of preparing the class to read an artistic work; organizing the reading of an artistic text; discussion, various types of retelling, and reading with commentary; and the summary review or text exercise. (ND)

Structured overviews can help students and teachers to clarify objectives in content reading. (KS)

This paper discusses ways to use worked examples in teaching mathematics. It is argued that neither investigative teaching such as discovery learning nor lecturing and starting from the abstract are helpful as they are based on emotive associations with general labels rather than precise details of pedagogic strategies. (KHR)

In this paper I will trace a path through three different studies of mathematics learning in England and the United States. As different analytical lenses are cast upon students' experiences I will propose that notions of mathematical capability expand beyond knowledge, to include mathematical practices and the identities these encourage. Further…

Instructionism refers to educational practices that are teacher-focused, skill-based, product-oriented, non-interactive, and highly prescribed. Constructivism refers to educational practices that are student-focused, meaning-based, process-oriented, interactive, and responsive to student interest. There is disagreement regarding which curricular…

This paper examines how to effectively teach students who learn differently. Teaching method and learning style theory and research are relevant in addressing this issue because many such students are able to excel in certain areas but not in others. The paper uses the example of a student who excelled only in Bible education and art, explaining…

This position statement begins with an outline of the meanings for terms that are central to the session topic at which this paper was presented: inquiry, inquiry learning, scientific inquiry, and scientific method. The central issues of inquiry's place in science education and as a more general educational approach are then discussed. Finally,…

Article suggested where the teacher's role lies in an open education environment and offered an idealized, stylized description of the teaching process in the informal class situation. (Author/RK)

Described a cooperative effort in instructional development in the community colleges in New York State. (Author/RK)

In this article faculty responsibility in several areas was considered, primarily responsibility for the conduct of the instructional process and responsibility to oneself and one's profession. (Author/RK)

Analyzes the nature of the learning process and attempts to show how the three components of a reinforcement contingency, the stimulus, the response and the reinforcement can be utilized to increase the efficiency of a typical science learning experience, the excursion. (JR)

Using the Topic of electromagnets as an example, describes how science teachers can benefit from the work of Hilda Taba and her co-workers in the area of instructional design and in classroom techniques for developing concepts. (JR)

Reflective teaching is indeed less structured than traditional education because it involves the students more meaningfully in the selecting and planning of learning experiences through cooperative teacher small group interaction. (Author/RK)

Concluding portion of a two-part article. (VM)