The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of audiovisual aids in the instruction of junior-level preservice teachers. The tapes used were vignettes of persons demonstrating specific teaching skills in the areas of lesson organization, questioning, using student ideas, praise and corrective feedback, and variety and variation in…

This study compared the relative effectiveness of two communication-skills training models: Ivey's Microcounseling Paradigm and Carkhuff's Systematic Human Relations Training Model. After 107 educational psychology students volunteered to participate in the group that fit their schedules, treatments were randomly assigned. Pretesting and…

This is the second part of a teaching guide described in SO 000 195. "A series of inquiry plans for the systematic development of learning and thinking skills are provided." (SBE)

After presenting two contrasting team teaching methods in the same course, students were administered a Likert-type questionnaire with items which were designed to ascertain student opinion regarding their experiences under each method. First, an overall comparison of effectiveness between team teaching and traditional teaching revealed that: 1)…

At an international symposium on individualized instruction, educators from America and Europe expressed their concern that the societal need for unity, cohesion, and a sense of mission is in direct conflict with the individual's need for diversity and freedom. They pointed to parents, administrators, teachers, and teacher educators as the major…

The purpose of this study was to identify the teaching models contained in teacher's editions of selected junior high school inquiry science materials. The methodology employed a systematic content analysis of the teacher's editions using an instrument of the investigator's design. The sample consisted of the commercially published teacher's…

This article examines some of the ways in which language has been organised for language teaching. Their deficiencies are examined and some possibilities for the future are suggested. (Author/NC R)

Provides a rationale for the use of writing as a learning vehicle in the teaching of history. Also provides some practical guidelines illustrating how such a writing/history model might be developed. (Author/JK)

The spectrum of teaching styles is a continuum of seven models: command, task, reciprocal, individual (teacher-designed), guided discovery, problem solving, and individual program (student-designed). A progression through these styles increasingly promotes student responsibility in decisions regarding teacher-learner transactions. Major categories…

The prior knowledge that a student brings into the lecture is one of the major factors influencing teaching effectiveness. It is therefore important that lecturers are able to ascertain the level of prior knowledge and adjust their teaching accordingly. This paper adopts an iterative learning model that seeks to enhance teaching effectiveness by…

In order to understand the cognitive and affective roots underpinning the differences between teachers' and parents' teaching approaches for hearing-impaired children, this study proposes a four-level analysis structure (global-level schema, middle-level schema, local-level schema, and prepositional reasoning) to construct and then compare…

This paper describes a model adapted from Zenger and Zenger's (1992) Ten-Step Curricular Planning Process Model. The adapted version, which was used to revise and update a university-level curriculum in Journalism and Mass Communications, includes the following steps: (1) identify challenges; (2) determine needs; (3) develop role and mission…

As a new century approaches it is time to re-assess the foundations on which instructional design currently rests, as well as the "mode of thinking" that it promotes. Traditional theories regarding instructional design have largely been implicitly based on out-moded eighteenth century conceptions of the physical universe (a mechanistic world view)…

Constructive-developmentalism is a theory of learning that incorporates two major concepts: (1) that students construct knowledge by organizing and making meaning of their experiences, and (2) that this construction takes place in the context of students' assumptions about and creation of knowledge. A gap often exists between instructor and…

Attempts to combine research information and practical knowledge in a set of helpful hints for those who find themselves working in open plan schools. Presents useful information to those who must cope in situations that differ dramatically from their prior experiences. For a lengthier version of this article see ED 074 611. (Editor)