The purpose of this paper is to present a new approach to teaching a creative writing sequence for high school students. During the first 45-day course, over 30 papers are to be written. Students begin with a paper titled "I Am" and proceed through a series of self-discovery papers. The papers give the students a chance to understand…

The authors report on a Methodology Conference aimed at the development of a model for the training of rehabilitation personnel employed in agencies assessing the disadvantaged. The conference was the first phase of the Disadvantaged Series of developmental conferences held at the University of Pittsburgh in 1969. Participants included 12…

This paper defines individualized education as any procedures which are used to make sure that an individual student receives instruction specifically appropriate for him. General programs and day-to-day lessons are to be tailor-made to suit a student's learning needs and his characteristics as a learner. Group teaching, self-direction and mastery…

The philosophy and techniques of using local history to make the world more interesting, realistic, and understandable to K-12 students are provided in this third How to Do It Series. Objectives of using local history as a teaching technique are to promote: critical thinking and other cognitive skills; orientation of the present community to the…

In this paper, a scheme for organizing teaching skills or competencies is described. The competencies listed were identified by using a combination of four methods: polling; poaching from prepared lists; observing; and, mainly, analyzing the teaching act. The paper states that the analysis was strongly influenced by Freider's work in which six…

This document is a discussion of a systemized approach to education theory and practice, especially as it applies to performance-based teacher education. The author uses as the basis of his discussion the physical sciences and their use of approximation models (an illustration of this use is the historical development of the description of matter…

This pamphlet attempts to encourage teachers and principals, currently operating in open plan schools, to define their own problems and to rely on their own perceptions and judgments in arriving at solutions. The content is also designed to help teachers (who are contemplating going into the flexible space of an open plan school for the first…

An instructional model, labeled "direct instruction," which contains general principles that can form the basis for in-service teacher training in teaching basic skills in reading and mathematics, is described. (JD)

This article suggests the use of the circuit box to illustrate the processes involved in the scientific method. Construction and wiring diagrams and a materials list are presented. (BB)

Teachers in an elementary school decide not to match students with teachers. Instead, the teachers learn a variety of styles. (Author)

Examines the concept of inquiry and gives suggestions for its use in the classroom. A model of inquiry teaching is developed and illustrated by presenting two inquiry teaching approaches to a geographical study of world population and arable land. Some limitations of inquiry teaching are also discussed. (Author/JK)

This examination of various bases for choosing teaching behaviors emphasizes the teacher's values concerning aims and elements of education. Research data on teaching effectiveness are described as inconsistent. Prescriptions by experts, modeling, and adherence to a philosophical position are useful only when based on teacher's awareness of…

This paper surveys the area of early childhood numeracy and offers thoughts on best practices in early childhood learning and teaching as it applies to the learning and teaching of numeracy knowledge and skills. Exemplary early childhood numeracy programs are considered against established norms of early childhood learning and teaching, and…

This paper describes a university research program, the Teacher Model Group, which developed a theory of teaching in context, examining how and why teachers make specific decisions and take specific actions as they teach. The teacher model includes descriptions of teacher beliefs, goals, and knowledge. Two core assumptions underlying the model are…

Presents several models to describe the instructional approaches adopted by many teachers, and analyzes the roles of the teacher and students that seem to be implicit in each model. (JR)