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Santa Barbara City Coll., CA. Office of Instruction. – 1984
Brief descriptions are provided of the programs and activities conducted at Santa Barbara City College (SBCC) to promote instructional improvement, and of the achievements of program participants. After an introduction to the college's commitment to instructional excellence, the following programs are described: (1) the Annual Faculty Lecturer…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Educational Innovation, Educational Research
Trobian, Helen R. – 1984
Guided Design has great potential as a teaching/learning method for Women's Studies courses. The Guided Design process is organized around the learner's efforts to come up with solutions to a series of carefully designed, open-ended problems. The problems are selected by the teacher according to the skills and subject matter to be learned. The…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Ethnic Studies, Feminism, Higher Education
Sledge, Andrea Celine – 1984
Being a reading mentor to students, colleagues, or friends is one key strategy in the development and promotion of a wide variety of reading interests. Readers serve as mentors by passive means, such as indicating how much they read, being able to name the last book recommended to them, displaying their books visibly, and maintaining their…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Mentors, Reading Habits, Reading Improvement
Download full textWilson, Gerald L. – 1984
Results of an examination of research literature on performance-appraisal interviewing and its implications are presented in this report. The appraisal interview functions to (1) provide feedback on performance, (2) counsel and provide help, (3) discover what the employee is thinking, (4) teach the employee to solve problems, (5) help the employee…
Descriptors: Business Skills, Communication Research, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment
Davila, Sonia I. – 1983
This paper provides an overview of recent developments in the science of linguistics, and considers their relevance to the teaching of Spanish in Puerto Rico. First, three significant trends are explained and summarized: (1) structuralism, which emphasizes phonetics, pattern, and distribution, and rejects meaning as a tool of analysis; (2)…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory, Native Language Instruction
Hart, Margaret – 1982
Based on the theory that learning takes place if the learner is able to relate new knowledge to something already known, the course of study described in this booklet consists of recording stories dictated by individual students and using these stories as a basis for teaching reading and creative writing to students from preschool through adult…
Descriptors: Adults, Creative Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Experience Approach
Croft, Blanton – 1984
A study was conducted to determine whether significant public speaking anxiety is present in an adult elective speech course and to determine whether speech anxiety can be lowered with the use of post-speech conferences. Subjects were 74 undergraduate students enrolled in four sections of a night elective course in public speaking. The Personal…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attitude Change, College Students, Communication Apprehension
Boyd, Stephen D. – 1985
To "consult" with teachers requires making the right people aware that the consultant is available and that the consultant has something to contribute to their skills. Acquiring invitations for consulting work is the main obstacle consultants must overcome. They must get to know school administrators, curriculum supervisors, state…
Descriptors: Career Development, Communication Skills, Consultants, Inservice Teacher Education
Majsterek, David J. – 1983
Intended for teachers of students with learning disabilities, the paper reviews recent trends in research. The importance and the difficulty of keeping up with new developments in the field are noted. Research and theoretical considerations are presented for the following topic areas: definition and identification difficulties (including,…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Influence
Wildauer, Cheryl A. – 1984
The document examines three case studies of intellectually gifted young children and explores competencies for accurately identifying and nurturing the young gifted child in the regular classroom. An introductory section reviews child development principles, notes characteristics of physical development in gifted children, and considers behaviors…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Education, Gifted
Tillman, Murray H.; Pajak, Edward F. – 1984
This study examined how readily teachers learn the components of the troubleshooting model of Tillman (1982) via a guided design approach, the consistency of the language of the model with the language of teachers, and the concerns teachers express about guided design as an instructional innovation. Forty-five teachers enrolled in a graduate level…
Descriptors: Administrators, Feedback, Higher Education, Instructional Innovation
Brandon, Joan M., Ed.; And Others – 1982
Intended as a resource for people interested in intiating or promoting networking and collaboration, this manual evolved from a federally funded training project of the Community Education Resource Center (CERC) at the University of Massachusetts. While the theories and activities described are designed to aid in the building of networks in the…
Descriptors: Community Education, Cooperation, Information Dissemination, Information Networks
Turner, Bonnie L., Comp.; Downs, Rondi, Comp. – 1983
Recognizing the responsibility of library staff members of maintain a pleasant environment for the public in the library, this manual discusses the library user's and library employee's rights under the law and how to protect them. It is arranged alphabetically by the type of problem or emergency that may be encountered. The procedure for handling…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Library Materials, Library Personnel, Library Planning
Schoen, Frederick, E.; Childs, John W. – 1981
Formative evaluation of instructional materials may not be time efficient or cost effective. Scriven's definition of formative evaluation, used in this paper, applies to the assessment and refinement of instructional materials still under development. Implementation of formative evaluation techniques does not seem to yield significant improvement…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation
Walters, Joseph M.; Gardner, Howard – 1984
This paper presents the theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI) and analyzes its potential impact on education. MI pluralizes the traditional concept of intelligence from logical and linguistic problem solving to a set of abilities, talents, or mental skills called Intelligences. An Intelligence entails the ability to solve problems or fashion…
Descriptors: Ability, Biographies, Developmental Stages, Educational Assessment
