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McClatchey, Margaret – Teaching Theatre, 1999
Presents a rehearsal plan that not only keeps everyone on task but also produces stronger scenes. Suggests techniques such as: reading to the wall (suggests having no audience), sit in a circle (recite lines simultaneously), present a teaser, and blocking (find lines where the actors should move). Outlines a rehearsal worksheet. (SC)
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Improvement, Rehearsals (Theater Arts), Secondary Education
Peer reviewedBoudah, Daniel J.; Lenz, B. Keith; Bulgren, Janis A.; Schumaker, Jean B.; Deshler, Donald D. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2000
This article argues that teachers need instructional techniques that do not simply water down content learning for students with disabilities, but are effective. It describes one research-based teaching technique, Content Enhancement and the Unit Organizer Routine, and illustrates instructional procedures, offers practical tips, and cites…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Classroom Techniques, Course Content, Curriculum Design
Peer reviewedFilipek, Pauline A.; Accardo, Pasquale J.; Baranek, Grace T.; Cook, Edwin H., Jr.; Dawson, Geraldine; Gordon, Barry; Gravel, Judith S.; Johnson, Chris P.; Kallen, Ronald J.; Levy, Susan E.; Minshew, Nancy J.; Prizant, Barry M.; Rapin, Isabelle; Rogers, Sally J.; Stone, Wendy L.; Teplin, Stuart; Tuchman, Roberto F.; Volkmar, Fred R. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1999
This paper presents detailed recommendations for diagnosis of autism established by a multidisciplinary panel of the Child Neurology Society and the American Academy of Neurology. The paper offers dual-level (general development and specific symptoms) guidelines for diagnosis of autistic disorder, Asperger disorder, childhood disintegrative…
Descriptors: Autism, Clinical Diagnosis, Disability Identification, Early Identification
Cirillo, Sandi – Arts & Activities, 1998
Describes felting as the process of making felt using sheep's wool from fibers without weaving or knitting. Explains that teachers can incorporate felting into a lesson exploring the background behind this process, as an extension of collage or textile arts, as a means to studying abstract art, or in a fashion design unit. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Materials, Art Products, Clothing Design
Peer reviewedLang, Anthony F., Jr.; Lang, James M. – PS: Political Science and Politics, 1998
Recommends using Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day" to teach international relations by focusing on the normative elements of international relations, the importance of history, and the relationship between theory and history. Explores the use of one theory, feminism, in the novel and provides suggestions for other novels. (CMK)
Descriptors: Feminism, Higher Education, Historiography, History
Peer reviewedWang, Jichuan; Siegal, Harvey A.; Falck, Russel S.; Carlson, Robert G.; Rahman, Ahmmed – Evaluation Review, 1999
Demonstrates how the latent growth model can be applied to the evaluation of programs targeting HIV risk behavior among drug users. Multigroup piecewise latent growth models were fit to longitudinal data with three repeated response measures. Participants were 430 drug users and their sex partners. (SLD)
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Behavior Patterns, Drug Use, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedPepper, Kaye; Hare, Dwight – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1999
Developed an evaluation based on R. Stake's Countenance Model of Program Evaluation (1967) to evaluate the Senior Block Field Experience Program at Mississippi State University, a teacher education program. Results identify strengths and weaknesses in all components of the program. (SLD)
Descriptors: Education Majors, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Peer reviewedGraves, Heather Brodie – Business Communication Quarterly, 1999
Discusses the incorporation of cases to help students understand the issues inherent in corporate communication. Finds that the cases significantly improve the quality of education gained by the students. Concludes that cases provide a variety of contexts and examples for professional writing that enlighten students as to the range of documents,…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Educational Improvement, Higher Education
Peer reviewedLawson, Karen G.; Pelzer, Nancy L. – College & Research Libraries, 1999
Describes a study that assessed how technology-based projects are evaluated in the promotion and/or tenure process for academic librarians in ARL (Association of Research Libraries). Results show that projects, particularly for Web-based materials, are being evaluated, but little development has occurred toward a core set of measures for promotion…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Decision Making, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedCox, Richard; McKendree, Jean; Tobin, Richard; Lee, John; Mayes, Terry – Instructional Science, 1999
Examines learning in the domain of sentence parsing and syntax tree-diagram construction to assess whether subjects could learn "vicariously" from recordings of interactions between a previous student and a tutor. Findings indicate that reusable dialog is a useful resource for the vicarious learner and that unannotated animated diagrams…
Descriptors: Animation, Dialogs (Language), Instructional Design, Instructional Effectiveness
Farmer, Donald – Journal of Staff, Program & Organization Development, 1999
Explains how course-embedded, qualitative-assessment strategies can focus faculty attention on the actual learning taking place for students. Finds that, when faculty assign a high priority to facilitating student learning rather than merely transferring information, they are demonstrating a behavior that reflects the paradigm shift from a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Based Assessment, Higher Education, Learning Strategies
Peer reviewedChildress, Marcus D.; Lee, Guang-Lea; Sherman, Gregory P. – Information Technology in Childhood Education Annual, 1999
Describes a computer software review procedure centering around a form that considers the use of the computer software in the early-childhood classroom and aids educators in selecting software that is age- and individually appropriate. The form emphasizes reviewing the software's potential for encouraging student engagement and enhancing skills in…
Descriptors: Computer Software Reviews, Computer Software Selection, Computer Uses in Education, Early Childhood Education
Peer reviewedBourke, Andrew B.; Strehorn, K. C.; Silver, Patricia – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2000
This study surveyed 162 faculty at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, concerning instructional accommodations for students with learning disabilities. Respondents' beliefs about the helpfulness of and need for instructional accommodations were associated with the faculty provision of accommodations. Also, a perception of support from the…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), College Faculty, College Students, Higher Education
Coombe, Christine; Kinney, Jon – Forum, 1999
Defines what is meant by a learner-centered approach, provides a rationale for infusing learner-centered classroom assessment techniques in classroom assessment, and suggests a framework and specific activities for incorporating learner-centered classroom assessment techniques in English-as-a-Second- or Foreign-language instruction. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language), Listening Skills, Second Language Learning
Rudder, Michael E. – Forum, 1999
The communicative approach to language instruction emphasizes ways to increase student-talk and decrease teacher-talk. It necessitates including the production or performance stage in lesson plans to give students the opportunity to use the new language in simulated real-life situations. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Lesson Plans, Oral Language
