The purposes of the study were (1) to ascertain how public high school teachers of English in New England are teaching drama and using drama activities in their classrooms; (2) to design a set of guidelines for the teaching of drama and the use of drama activities; (3) to discover how teachers of English in New England public schools are prepared…

A communi-site -ed approach to speech fundamentals attempts to teach speech communication in interpersonal situations and to alert students to the importance of retaining democratic principles in a society which is pluralistic. It is assumed that college students need and desire the kind of learning whereby theory becomes functional in their…

Described are the results of a formative evaluation of the time with a clock unit involving evaluations by teachers and performance of 57 preprimary and primary class educable retarded students. The unit is comprised of three sections: the clock (emphasizing the need for telling time and recognition of the clock and its purpose), time telling…

The performance of 272 elementary school aged educable retarded children was used in the final evaluation of the five unit Money, Measurement and Time program. Criterion referenced pre- and posttests were administered to assess the effectiveness of each unit, and A Cognitive Abilities Test evaluated Ss' general improvement in non-content-specific…

This bibliography is divided into six main sections. The first section cites books and articles generally concerning the teaching of English literature overseas. The following five sections cite books and articles dealing specifically with English literature instruction in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle and Far East. Entries…

The first step in establishing an educational system is to assess the desired outcomes of the task and to state them as observable behaviors. The second step is to determine the optimal learning environment for the achievement of those goals. The final step is to set up a system of evaluating the quality of the instruction and the performance of…

Consideration is given to making the discussion of issues provided by the American Issues Forum most meaningful for students and applicable to their decision making about issues outside of the classroom. The Bicentennial and the American Issues Forum provide an excellent opportunity to help students develop a better understanding of our society's…

The facilitator's guide introduces and explains an inservice program for administrators in career education. Consisting of eight additional modules, the program presents the administrator with an opportunity to examine career education, its implications for educational programs, and the various administrative functions affecting its…

This research finds that teacher effort in reading instruction is associated with student achievement in the primary and middle grades. Teachers who exert a greater amount of effort on the job in reading produce higher reading achievement scores in their classes at both the primary and middle-school level as measured by the Stanford Achievement…

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of systematic instruction with cloze tasks on the reading achievement of primary grade children. The cloze procedure was selected as an instructional strategy because of the close relationship of the cloze procedure to the psycholinguistic model of the reading process. Twenty-two first and nine…

This publication presents fundamental ideas necessary for effective teaching of word recognition as part of the reading process. Chapter 1 defines and discusses word recognition techniques. The second chapter reviews word recognition techniques and discusses how they aid the reader in unlocking words. Exercises and suggestions for teaching word…

To write well is not a singular ability; it utilizes critical thinking, creativity, and a feeling for language. An examination of a number of pieces of writing by elementary school pupils shows that some are highly imaginative while others are informative reports, simple statements of events, colorful descriptions, or various forms of poetry.…

An objective model for evaluating expository compositions is proposed in this article. The model requires that English composition instructors be cognizant of their instructional objectives and that they convey the criteria for a good essay to their students. The evaluation of compositions then is based on the manifestation of the stipulated…

A component tryout of first-grade spelling was conducted using students who received concurrent reading instruction based on Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) materials. Pretest and posttest measures obtained from four comparable first-grade classes were used as baseline data against which to judge program effectiveness. This report describes…

This report describes the teacher educator's search for professional identify; the implications of previous research and development efforts for teachers of speech communication; the use of instructional domains, systems approaches, and behavioral objectives in speech communication instruction; the committee recommendations and rationales arrived…