This report is a cross-evaluation of two significant efforts to improve teacher education in the United States. The USOE models project and the NCATE accreditation standards both recognize that teacher education programs can best be examined as a totality, and both relate program and evaluation of graduates to stated goals. (See also ED037422 for…

The establishment of an instructional system for primary pupils in the village schools of Alaska, a major developmental effort of the Northwest Regional Education Laboratory, is described. The objectives of the system, materials specifications, multiple-agency involvement, the production team, and problems the instructional system did not attack…

In attempting to discover how a middle-class teacher copes with lower-class children in an urban school, the authors of this study (one an "outside" observer who sat at the side of the classroom, the other the teacher or "inside" observer) recorded the classroom actions and behavior of the teacher and his seventh grade pupils all day every day for…

An argument is made in this document for the development and testing of Computer Aided Instruction teaching models that are prescriptive as well as descriptive. It is felt that a Computer Aided Instruction system is needed more as a "Theory Machine" and a "Laboratory" than as an instrument for implementation. As the communication between the human…

This book is based on the premise that learning can best be facilitated when the teacher takes a diagnostic view of the instructional process. To further this end, each chapter contains materials, models, and techniques designed to implement diagnostic teaching in the language arts program. The seven chapters are "Foundations for Diagnostic…

Funded in 1971 under Title III, Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the teacher exchange program to improve reading instruction was designed as a 3 year project. The thrust of the program ranged from creating awareness of and interest in good teaching practices to helping instructors implement these practices in their own classrooms.…

Designed as a tool for k-12 teachers, this paper includes practical suggestions and sources for using a bulletin board to tell what's going on in the social studies classroom. Information is included on: 1) reasons for using bulletin boards; 2) ways that the boards can be planned and made jointly by students and teachers; 3) general rules to…

The instructional process has four major components: stimulation, orientation, transformation, and instrumental activity. Concerning stimulation, the instructor should highlight either the novelty or the complexity of the learning materials. Varying such factors as teaching style and mode of presentation, duration of instruction, and the learner's…

The focus of this paper is on the relative roles of personality and training in enabling teachers to carry out the kinds of complex learning models which are envisioned by curriculum reformers in the social sciences. The paper surveys some of the major research done in this area and concludes that: 1) Most teachers do not manifest the complex…

Several inadequacies exist in the training of those teachers who teach in reservation schools. These teachers often know nothing of the special characteristics of reservation life, of the language and culture of their pupils, or of the best ways to teach children of non-Anglo backgrounds. This absence of knowledge then causes adjustment…

Today educators are finding the public turning in greater numbers to alternative forms of instruction, including Transcendental Meditation, apprenticeship, and consciousness-raising groups. This paper attempts to (1) map out the "universe" of instruction, going beyond the frontier of public elementary and secondary teaching to consider other…

Some of the merits and limitations of Competency Based Teacher Education (CBTE) programs are reviewed, and a model CBTE program is presented. The model CBTE program is the primary concern of this discussion; however, arguments are mentioned for and against other such programs to give perspective to the components chosen for inclusion in the model…

Texts available for French courses in the highest grades are listed according to topics, which include: position of women, today's youth, the language of advertising, French colonialism, holidays and tourism, modern city living, criminality, French politics. Hints for the teacher are included. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Classes of students whose teachers utilized various teaching models in differing proportions differed in self-concept of academic ability but not in attitude toward the teacher. Teachers who used positive reinforcers abundantly and/or information processing models were associated with higher student self-concept of academic ability scores.…

This discussion of the political implications of implementing programs that develop students' critical thinking skills uses the proposals developed by Mancall, Aaron, and Walker as a model. Highlights include marketing the model, extending it to include library instruction in literature, implementing it in teaching reference and research skills,…