A skill-centered approach to teaching reading to children in grades K-6 in 80 elementary schools resulted in improved reading performance during a five-year program. (Editor/MM)

Three practicum components are presented for consideration: A developmental reading practicum, a curriculum innovation practicum, and a reverse-student- teaching-assignment-level practicum. (DS)

Teaching students to write effectively for an audience involves students learning to talk freely in class until the teacher becomes one member of an audience, not an audience of one. The system works in a supportive, nonthreatening environment where the teacher admits his vulnerability and enters the learning-coping process as its guide. (JMF)

This paper compares student, peer, and self ratings in terms of item statistics, convergent and discriminant validity, and relation to student learning. Ratings were similar in range and distribution, although colleagues tended to give the most favorable ratings, students least favorable. No rating was significantly related to student achievement.…

Effects of a packaged teacher-consultant-mediated intervention program (CLASS) for modifying acting-out behavior in the regular classroom were evaluated. The experimental groups significantly increased their proportion of appropriate behavior postintervention and required fewer remedial services and special class placement years later. Training…

In this article, the subject-matter and method of history are explored in order to provide perspectives for designing teaching-learning activities for the study of the subject. A model unit exemplifies the methodologies described. (Author/WI)

Both the need for, and the difficulties of, school effectiveness evaluation are examined, especially the setting of useful and objective performance standards. Several potential indicators and evaluation methods are reviewed. (SJL)

Adapted teaching materials and procedures were developed at Florida State University to help visually handicapped students in the public schools participate in a mainstreamed home economics class. (MF)

The article describes and evaluates the second-year experience of a programatically organized living-learning center at the University of Vermont. It compares student perceptions of the living-learning center and of more conventional residence halls, and offers explanations for the differences noted. (Author)

Describes a successful sustained silent reading program which involved junior high students in identifying and remedying their own miscues. (DD)

Shows how a content area teacher can help students relate prior experiences to the new information to be gained through the reading assignment. (MKM)

Reviews research which indicates that cross-age tutoring is successful and presents suggestions for implementing cross-age tutoring projects. (MKM)

A major study sponsored by the National Science Foundation yields a sobering picture of instruction in science, mathematics, and social studies. (Author)

The effectiveness and efficiency of two commonly used teaching strategies in reading (contextualized practice alone, and decontextualized coupled with contextualized) were compared with six learning disabled first-grade boys. Journal availability: see EC 112 927. (Author/DLS)

Demonstrates how documentation, such as photographs, articles, and comic strips, of an actual labor strike in France, can be used as a point of departure for a lesson on industrial relations in France. (AM)