Presents guidelines that enable classroom teachers to help mildly handicapped students develop two types of text lookback strategies and offers a series of explicit teaching activities that emphasize direct, student-centered instruction. (HOD)

To help educators deal with controversial issues, the references in this list of resources address the types of objections frequently raised about instructional materials, ideas for school policy, the position statement of a professional organization on the teaching of controversial issues, teaching suggestions, and related legal considerations.…

Outlines the Intern-Intervention Program of Toledo, Ohio, that uses experienced teachers to train and evaluate both beginning teachers and experienced teachers with problems. (MD)

Presents results of a study of 198 middle managers which was conducted to determine how age relates to competence as assessed by tests following instructional training, and identifies issues regarding test use in assessing employee competence. Results indicate there is a trend for older adults to obtain poorer test scores. (MBR)

Discusses Library of Congress's critical need for a storage medium to preserve items and reduce space requirements and describes the library's previous applications of optical disk technology. Discussion of current print and nonprint optical disk pilot programs includes their scope, equipment used, and the matrix management employed for their…

For this evaluation of a multicultural education unit, Staged Innovation Design, which allows for experimental group posttest scores to be compared to control-replication group pretest and posttest scores to ascertain instructional effectiveness, was modified by adding a simultaneous pretest for both groups to control for threats to internal…

The monotype is a singular work of art created by transferring an image from one surface to another. Methods and suggestions to help elementary and secondary students make watercolor monotypes are discussed. (RM)

Suggestions for teaching improvisational dance in a nonthreatening way are offered. (DF)

The author examines the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Hazard Communication Rule, also known as the Federal "right-to-know" law, aimed specifically at the chemical industry. He discusses content of the law, the role of trainers, input of labor unions, the effectiveness of safety training programs, and prepackaged…

Discusses assignments in discourse analysis and students' recurring methodological errors. (PD)

Illustrates using student shared nonacademic experience in preparing group proposals by using an adaptation of the eight-stage process in "The Winning Proposal: How to Write It" by Holtz and Schmidt. (EL)

Presents a classroom method by which teachers can decide upon the placement of and type of instruction for reading disabled children. (FL)

Concludes that prediction making should not be used solely as a teaching strategy, but also as a learning strategy. (FL)

Argues that an understanding of the psycholinguistics of the reading process can provide a foundation for instructional decision making in secondary and college reading classes. Discusses factors affecting reading comprehension. Provides exercises to help students use prior knowledge about the nature of language to overcome reading difficulties.…