One teaching strategy successfully being implemented in the high-tech environment of online education is that of electronic journaling, or e-journaling. It enhances traditional face-to-face classrooms and courses offered at a distance to multiple sites using video technology. E-journaling provides an opportunity for learners to express opinions,…

Little attention has been dedicated to monitoring the educational progress of students with EBD receiving services in restrictive settings, using empirically validated tools and procedures. This study compared the progress of students with EBD receiving special education services in either a self-contained school or self-contained classrooms to…

This brief report uses data from five administrations of the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) to examine the distribution of weekly instructional hours by regular, full-time first- through fourth-grade teachers of self-contained classrooms in four subjects: English/reading/language arts; arithmetic/mathematics; social studies/history; and,…

Guidance and verbal directions, usually received in a face-to-face (F2F) classroom, are often conspicuously absent from online courses. Like their peers in traditional classroom settings, students in online classes need clear, concise instructions (Cramer, Collins, Snider, & Fawcett, 2006). Screen capture and recording technologies, such as…

Seventh grade junior high school students, who formerly attended an open space elementary school, were compared on social and emotional factors with fellow students previously educated in self-contained elementary classrooms. (Author/MLF)

The adoption of team teaching or team organization in an elementary school causes change in the organization's work system or in the basic structure of its managerial system, or both. Distinguishing between the two kinds of change has been a central feature of the MITT (Management Implications of Team Teaching) research project at the University…

This paper reported the development of the elementary teacher education program at Mars Hill College from 1968 through 1972. The objectives of the program included giving students a full year of exposure to teaching so they could judge their suitability for the profession; making courses more meaningful through integration of theory and practice;…

This paper summarizes the results of a study comparing the usage, expenditures, services, collections, and staffing of elementary school library media centers by type of structural design, i.e., either open space or self contained classroom type. It suggests that school personnel, particularly the principal and library media specialist, rather…

Roller skates and fairy tales, Big Macs and snowflakes all blend with the curriculum to bring back the good old, brand-new "funner" class setting. (Editor)

Two groups of children who had attended open and traditional classrooms, respectively, for three years were compared. Multivariate analyses of repeated measures showed that open-classroom subjects had higher scores in social problem-solving cognitions, self-esteem, and ego strength. (Author/BW)

A framework of 13 decision criteria to give educators help in comparing the relative merits of different forms of school organization. The methods of school organization judged to be in widespread use and defined in the article are (1) the self-contained classroom, team teaching, departmentalization, modular scheduling, differentiated staffing,…

Evidence clearly suggests that social competence and social adjustment are areas in which educable mentally retarded students may profit most from self-contained class placement, while the relative effects of self-contained versus mainstreamed environments on achievement remains equivocal. (Author)

This seven-year case study describes a young woman with moderate to severe disabilities and her use of literacy during various stages of her educational career, after receiving special education in a self-contained special-education class, and after receiving services in a general-education setting. (Author/CR)

It is assumed that students with EBD who have more severe deficits in academic, behavior, and/or social domains are placed in more restrictive settings. However, this assumption has not been empirically tested. This study compared students educated in self-contained classrooms to students educated in a self-contained school to determine if the…