A discussion of the major criticisms leveled against Competency Based Teacher Education, and attempt to show that CBTE is suffering no more than previously proposed innovations. (Author)

The comparative study of foreign language teaching methodologies benefits from an overview of the history of foreign language instruction, which begins with Roman youths learning Greek and, later, the classical form of Latin. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, notable figures such as Erasmus and Montaigne espoused highly intensive though…

Suggestopedic language teaching, which is based on Lozanov's theories and their applications to teaching, is discussed. A language course based on suggestopedia covers a large amount of material in a very short time. This approach is designed to stimulate the student to assimilate a considerable amount in a short time, enabling him to use the…

CHANGES IN INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES AND REASONS THEREFOR WERE TABULATED FROM QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSES RECEIVED FROM 319 OF 650 NEW ENGLAND ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS. AMONG 458 MENTIONS OF METHODS CHANGES, THE MAJOR ONES WERE USE OF INDEPENDENT STUDY AND RESEARCH (22 PERCENT), USE OF AUDIOVISUAL AIDS (14 PERCENT), AND NEW METHODS OF…

VARIOUS MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS IN INTERNATIONAL INSTRUCTIONAL TELEVISION WERE PRESENTED FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE, JAPAN, CANADA, UNITED STATES, AND ITALY. ALSO, SEVERAL PAPERS DISCUSSED (1) PROBLEMS, FUNCTIONS, AND TRENDS, (2) THE IMPACT OF INSTRUCTIONAL TELEVISION ON THE CLASSROOM TEACHER, (3) PRODUCTION FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT, (4)…

This publication is a compilation of keynote addresses and workshop presentations given at a national conference on the Child Development Associate (CDA) program held in conjunction with the 1979 annual meeting of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). The document is divided into eleven sections. Each section…

The goals of Project PLAN (Program for Learning in Accordance with Needs) are: (1) to identify and define the needs of young people between the ages six and 18, and (2) to develop procedures to enable these people to acquire identified and defined knowledge, attitudes, skills and appreciations. Also included are the specific goals of the school…

This is an informal appraisal of differences between lecture method and individual instruction. In an experiment, known underachievers were combined at random with regular enrollees. The instruction method (contingency contracting) emphasized increased student motivation by making the student-teacher relationship cooperative instead of…