To investigate whether coaches encourage their athletes to use imagery, two studies were undertaken. In the first, 317 athletes completed the Coaches' Encouragement of Athletes' Imagery Use Questionnaire. In the second, 215 coaches completed a slightly modified version of this questionnaire. It was found that coaches and athletes generally agreed…

As research faculty with expertise in the area of host-pathogen interactions (HPI), we used a research group model to effect our professional development as scientific educators. We have established a working hypothesis: The implementation of a curriculum that forms bridges between our seven HPI courses allows our students to achieve deep and…

Reflecting back over a century ago to the small village of Menlo Park, New Jersey provides insight into a remarkable visionary and an exceptional role model for today's problem-solving and design-focused technology educator: Thomas A. Edison, inventor, innovator, and model technology educator. Since Edison could not simply apply existing knowledge…

In this article we propose, theorize, demonstrate, and report early results from a course that approaches first-year composition as introduction to Writing Studies. This pedagogy explicitly recognizes the impossibility of teaching a universal academic discourse and rejects that as a goal for first-year composition. It seeks instead to improve…

The present work discusses, firstly, different dimensions that characterize the use of analogies in the classroom. Foremost among these are the pupil's level of activity and the degree of monitoring carried out by the teacher. Secondly, the routines declared by a group of science teachers (n = 73), when they described their classroom activity in…

The objectives of this paper are: to describe art education in New South Wales, Australia; to explain the Student Centered Art Appreciation (SCAA) Model; and to examine how and why the model works in the classroom. Art education is explored from four perspectives or theoretical frameworks: (1) the New South Wales Visual Arts Syllabus; (2) the SCAA…

Concludes that in reading words the understanding of meaning and the knowledge of probable letter sequences has a function at least as significant as familiarity with letter shapes. (RB)

Because of the inadequacy of the three models of English teaching in Australia (the skills, personal growth, and cultural heritage models) in carrying the impact of English instruction beyond its own confines, a new model--the person-process model--is necessary. The model focuses on the individual, but serves to locate individuals in their life…

The authors propose that students look at teachers and teaching. If they are going to imitate, they should have the best! (Editor)

A model for incorporating selected nursing practitioner skills at the University of Rochester School of Nursing (New York) begins the teaching of physical assessment skills with the neurological examination in the first year of the undergraduate nursing major. (EA)

After observing the models, students can exhibit the interviewing skills by role-playing or by the actual performance of an interview. (Author/KE)

This research studied the effectiveness of pretraining procedures in teaching college students to self-disclose. Three modeling procedures were used to teach this verbal skill: video model, audio model, and no model. Results indicated the video model group was the most effective followed by the audio model group. No sex differences were found.…

A three-part model is presented which has been developed for use in teaching a basic course in placement as a component of the rehabilitation process. Its primary foci are the interaction of traditional treatment strategies, placement as a process, and the concept of the client in the environment. The model allows for the presentation of a variety…

This case study is presented as a model for a sensitivity training program planned at Michigan State University. The goals, procedures, and criteria for conducting a program are illustrated. Based on the assumption that empathy is the mainspring of impression formation, and that empathy and evaluation interact, the goal is accurate evaluation.…

This article describes an instructional program which starts with the student and then identifies three elements which operate interactively as a means to achieving desired ends. The three elements (educational objectives, learning experiences, and evaluation activities), when specified and cross-checked, yield a configuration indicating what the…