The use of television in PSI courses has two advantages: (1) student time involved in learning is comparable with that of students using only written material, and (2) it provides an avenue for learning for those students who prefer auditory learning to written learning. (Author)

The article offers ideas for beginning to meet the needs of gifted children in the classroom. The writer argues for individualization of learning, suggesting that if teachers provide open-ended problems which can be dealt with at a variety of levels, they are more than halfway towards meeting the needs of all pupils including the ablest.…

The paper summarizes two studies on Team Assisted Instruction (TAI), combining cooperative learning and individualized instruction to accommodate the social and academic needs of mainstreamed academically handicapped students and their nonhandicapped classmates. TAI improved social and academic behavior, and in one study, increased mathematics…

A team-taught freshman English course at the University of Alabama paired in the classroom regular English teaching assistants with library teaching assistants. (PF)

In this article, the Double I (Individualized Instruction) Game is described, including its objectives, rules of play, participants, and materials. The purpose of the game is to permit parents and teachers to consider their feelings about the implementation of individualized instruction. (HMD)

Three levels of individualization are identified: self-paced, different routes, and independent learning. Individualization requires answers to these questions: what is to be learned? has the student learned it? what methods and materials should be used? Alternatives are presented to alleviate potential problems. Prepared "packages" of…

Expresses scepticism of "bandwagon" movements in foreign language instruction but still hopeful of the promise implicit in individualized instruction. (RL)