This glossing system is designed to fill the gap between grammar studies and reading. The system reflects flexional and derivational morphology of words as well as lexical relationships of synonymy, antonymy, homonymy and structural similarity and polysemy. It is intended to help students learn and understand vocabulary for successful reading.…

Teaching modules are suggested as one method of teaching Russian. Review units, vocabulary and grammar units could be constructed using computers, audiovisual aids and other teaching machines to equalize students' preparation, solve problems in weak areas and provide flexible sequences of instruction. (CHK)

Emphasizes the necessity of teaching listening comprehension along with written language skills in English as a second language. (Available from English Inspectorate, Ministry of Education and Culture, P. O. Box 292, Jerusalem, Israel.) (CHK)

Describes a detailed study used in schools with the highest and lowest percentages of students enrolled in physics in order to determine factors related to enrollment. Twenty-eight indexes were used. Reports percent of variance accounted for and significance level for each variable and offers conclusions. (CP)

In developing a community medicine course with a lecture-seminar form, the University of Kentucky College of Medicine used a peer review process in which proposed lectures and seminar materials were presented to the faculty who played the role of students as well as peer reviewers. The process was considered valuable. (JT)

Peer teaching models and issues and problems that may confront the instructor are reviewed with the conclusion that peer teaching, best used in conjunction with other methods, had potential for both student "teacher" and "learner." Strengths are in active participation and development of cooperation and social interaction skills. (Editor/JT)

Introduces six evaluation instruments which measure student opinion of classroom climate. Provides examples of their uses, along with comments of teachers who have used the instruments. (CP)

Explains the arrangement of materials in a classroom to simulate land or weather conditions. On each desk in the room pertinent bits of information are placed. Students gather bits of information and synthesize material into an overall map of the area. (CP)

Describes activities for the elementary school classroom to increase observational accuracy of children. (CP)

Describes seven years later the origin, development, frustrations, and accomplishments of an experimental course, The American Dream and Social Change, offered to upper division students (over 300 in all) at California State University at Hayward in 1967-68. Techniques included discussions, action programs, group presentations, and diverse…

Analysis of teacher questionnaires sent to all public elementary schools in the Mideast, New England, and Southwest regions of the United States showed that an adequate budget for supplies and equipment may not be sufficient to get the teachers to use innovative teaching techniques; inservice training appears to be necessary. (MLH)

Studied the effect of a six-hour training program on high school cooperating science teachers. The student teachers in this experiment rated their cooperating teachers as making more comments more often about the student teacher's planning and questioning techniques if the cooperating teacher had the training program. (MLH)

The treatment group of first-graders received audio-tutorial instruction in the particulate nature of matter; the control group received audio-tutorial instruction in a nonscience subject. The treatment group used a particulate model to explain the nature of smells much more effectively than the control group. (MLH)

The discipline of American Studies is defined in terms of its theory, methodology and content; and a model course for American Studies is presented which is oriented toward general education studies at the lower division level. (Author/NHM)

An art teacher described an elective course in graphics which was designed to enlarge a student's knowledge of value, color, shape within a shape, transparency, line and texture. This course utilized the technique of working a multi-colored print from a single block that was first introduced by Picasso. (Author/RK)