Explains the "Point and Query" (P&Q) Interface which trains students to develop good questioning strategies, decrease search time and increase retention and recall. Navigation and knowledge organization in the P&Q interface are explained; and two experiments demonstrating P&Q use are presented. (Contains 16 references.) (SLW)

Teacher behaviors that enhance critical thinking include room arrangement, questioning, verbal and nonverbal responses, metacognitive labeling, and modeling. Learning strategies include Socratic discussion and short writing assignments, such as summaries and critiques. (SK)

Discussion of participative learning strategies that can be used in training focuses on the need for the trainer to adapt to unexpected events, whether they involve equipment or learners. The achievement of instructional objectives is discussed, characteristics of experts are described, and three examples of training sessions with unexpected…

Outlines an instructional strategy to be used with postsecondary reading students to help them actively engage with text through the use of elaborations. (SR)

Contends that constructivist teaching pedagogy helps children learn to reason about the world. Notes that children are encouraged to become active learners and to discover meaning in their own world, not only in preformed ideas or definitions of others. Discusses these issues and elaborates on them in form of dialogue. (Author/NB)

Supermath, a learning strategy based on HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills) Project, is helping students increase mathematics achievement. Three principles are involved: creating an intriguing learning environment, combining visual and interactive experiences with Socratic forms of conversation that help students create mental models and…

Argues that saying that students have "thinking problems" is hardly a useful diagnostic statement or even a sensible description of flawed cognitive development. Maintains that what is needed to encourage students to think are some sensible models and attractive opportunities to do it in contexts that matter to them. (RS)

Offers suggestions for making students more aware of their own study styles and for helping them select appropriate strategies for various study tasks. (SR)

A good lesson plan has an introduction, body, opportunity for questions, and summary. These components are bound together with time cues, media cues, practice and provide-help paragraphs, instructor's notes, and transitions. Motivational principles guiding lesson plan development are relevance, conceptual framework, learning outcome, method,…

Guidelines are offered for speech-language pathologists who seek to evaluate and enhance idiom comprehension in language-disordered students. The long-term goal of the treatment approach is for the student to acquire a specific comprehension strategy for determining the meanings of unfamiliar idioms. (Author/JDD)

Discusses the need to reengineer performance development in light of new technologies, concepts, and tools. Topics addressed include current performance development strategies; new models; learning strategies versus training strategies; electronic performance support and software; and the role of the instructional developer. (LRW)

Discusses what a reading and study skills teacher learned from revisiting the classroom herself as a student, and how she used the experience in her teaching. (SR)

Advocates adding to the "KWL" instructional strategy chart a fourth column signifying children's affective responses, thus expanding the chart to "KWLA" as students assign their own relevance and personal value to their learning experiences. (SR)

After reading a brief summary of the transactional strategies approach and watching 2 videotapes of its implementation in the classroom, 30 elementary school teachers were asked about their perceptions of this educational strategy. Teachers' first impressions of the transactional strategies approach were positive, although they expressed a few…

The notes of 30 university students with learning disabilities (LD) and 30 nondisabled university students were compared on the number of cued and noncued information units recorded and the number and type of abbreviations used. Results showed that the LD students performed significantly lower on all variables. (Author/DB)