Describes three approaches to language arts instruction--student centered/integrated, content centered/segmented, and a combination of these two--and examines the strong and weak points of each. (HTH)

Measured the effectiveness of a drug prevention education program developed by the Cooperative Educational Service Agency Number Eight in Wisconsin. As a result of this study, the U.S. Office of Education has recognized this program as a national model. (Author)

Critiques direct instruction for its emphasis on fact accumulation at the expense of thinking skill development. (SJL)

Examines characteristics of rhetorical communication, particularly as they apply to classroom communication and presents the implications of a rhetorical model of teaching. (JMF)

Discusses a "rational concept" of integration of audiovisual teaching aids into the foreign language teaching process that would be based on a positive evaluation of teacher-centered instruction. Offers a model for integration of human and technical media. (IFS/WGA)

An instructional skills laboratory, consisting of videotape model or demonstration lessons, can be of value in providing teaching interns and first-year teachers with positive suggestions for various instructional problems. (MB)

Describes a teaching model used to train students in different methods of substance abuse treatment. Addiction Studies students and graduate social work students received treatment manuals that were used in Project MATCH study, three methods of treatment were used. Students reported surprise at the level of sophistication in substance abuse…

Describes a hybrid approach to online learning, which employs the best characteristics of online education and the interactivity that typically characterizes face-to-face classroom instruction, and the lessons it offers for institutions entering the online arena. (EV)

In this statement by the 1986 teacher of the tear of Kirkwood, Missouri, it is maintained that there is no more important characteristic for teachers to possess than autonomy. It is recommended that politicians, parents, teacher educators, and educational consultants create the conditions and climate necessary for teachers to act autonomously. (DG)

Calls for changes in the teaching of technical communication. Proposes including in instruction political discourse which analyzes the values of the military-industrial complex that technical writing now serves. Suggests that an apprenticeship model would be better suited to such instruction than the model now offered by the market. (SG)

In addition to knowledge of content, learners, contexts, and purposes, the teacher knowledge base should emphasize five domains: curriculum pedagogy, instructional models of teaching, goal development, a plan for teaching, and interpersonal skills. Teachers should be able to foster a community of individual learners. (SK)

Discusses the integration of faith and learning, using a historical approach to delineate the varieties of meaning implied by the integration-of-faith-and-learning construct as a useful first step in advancing coherent scholarly dialog. The paper discusses where integration occurs and which paradigm of integration is used. (SM)

A rich array of psychoeducational approaches is available to teach students with behavior disorders, including psychodynamic, behavioral, sociological, and ecological models. A conceptual framework to bind them together is presented, based on the idea of a "reclaiming" educational environment organized to meet the needs of students and society.…

Describes a hands-on activity that helps students to better transfer the abstract concept of atoms into a concrete understanding of atomic structure. (ZWH)

Suggests that intermediate microeconomic theory instruction should emphasize individual elements of the topic as part of a general equilibrium model. Summarizes a model that can be used to highlight the unifying thread running through the subject. Discusses the submodels of the market, the consumer, the firm, and the economy as a whole. (SG)