This paper addresses issues related to the development of geographic literacy by describing, explaining, and discussing these issues as they relate to the current reform movement in the teaching of geography. Emphasis is placed on how this information relates to students with learning disabilities. The paper emphasizes the importance of effective…

This study investigated the development of PCK (pedagogical content knowledge) within a group of 12 preservice chemistry teachers (all M.Sc.) during the first semester of their 1-year post-graduate teacher education program. The study focused on PCK with respect to a central issue in science teaching; i.e., relating macroscopic phenomena to…

Describes a summer camp for children with learning and adjustment to school problems. Behavior modification is the basis of the remediation program. (ST)

The Self-Instruction Center is the name given to the location for students who participate in an experimental project at Webber Junior High School in Saginaw, Michigan for students experiencing behavioral as well as learning difficulties. (Authors/CB)

It is argued that developmental task analysis is of primary value in the psychoeducational programming of children with learning and behavioral problems. (Author)

Following an explanation of the importance of a positive self concept for academic achievement, the self, its emergence, and effects on its development are described briefly. (KW)

This article appears in "The Florida FL Reporter special anthology issue "Linguistic-Cultural Differences and American Education. (FWB)

The purpose of this study was to determine whether children with perceptual learning difficulties also exhibit poor classroom adjustment. There is evidence that kindergarten children with visual perceptual difficulties are rated by their teachers as maladjusted in the classroom. (Author)