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Jenkins, Alan – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 1994
Discusses problems of maintaining higher education geography fieldwork in an era of increasing class size. Presents and describes 13 strategies for coping with these problems. Recommends that individual teachers and geography departments redesign their fieldwork programs in accordance with their priorities. (CFR)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Class Organization, Class Size, Classroom Environment
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Stout, Candace Jesse – Studies in Art Education, 1995
Reports on a qualitative study of complex, sophisticated thinking among 50 preservice art teachers taking an art criticism course. Maintains that the conversational model of instruction helped students understand the higher-order thinking skills associated with art criticism. (CFR)
Descriptors: Art Criticism, Art Education, Class Organization, Classroom Environment
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Roeder, Peter M. – Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, 1997
Analyzes teachers' attitudes regarding the value and practicality of adapting their teaching to the needs of heterogeneous classes. Surveys teachers and administrators in five German comprehensive schools. Finds that teachers do not support the view that within-class grouping may be a viable alternative to systems of across-class setting by…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Classroom Environment, Comprehensive Programs, Curriculum Development
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Montie, Jeanne E.; Xiang, Zongping; Schweinhart, Lawrence J. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2006
The IEA Preprimary Project is a longitudinal, cross-national study of preprimary care and education designed to identify how process and structural characteristics of the settings children attended at age 4 are related to their age-7 cognitive and language performance. Investigators collaborated to develop common instruments to measure family…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Preschool Children, Early Childhood Education, Cognitive Development
Canady, Robert Lynn; Rettig, Michael D. – 1995
This book presents detailed descriptions of alternative types of block schedules and discusses their effects on teachers and students. The book shows administrators how to organize their schools so that time enhances instruction and fosters learning. Chapter 1 discusses problems with the traditional high school schedule and chapter 2 provides…
Descriptors: Alternate Day Schedules, Class Organization, Educational Innovation, Flexible Scheduling
Reynolds, Maynard – 1990
This checklist is intended to be used as a rating instrument to assist in the design and description of classroom learning environments that provide for student diversity, including the mainstreaming of students with disabilities. Specific purposes of the checklist are to provide a framework for describing the organizational characteristics of…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Check Lists, Class Organization, Classroom Environment
DeBord, Karen B.; Reguero de Atiles, Julia T. – 1991
This study examined the perceptions of teachers experienced in working with mixed-age groups in child care settings for children from birth through age 12. A mixed-age group was defined as one with children having at least a two-year range in age. Questionnaires were mailed to 92 licensed family child care and school-age child care providers in…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Class Organization, Classroom Environment, Day Care
Rathbone, Charles; And Others – 1993
This book reports on a three-part qualitative research study examining multiage classrooms from different perspectives. Part 1 of the book describes the activities of a K-3 multiage classroom, based on 40 days of observation and participation. The four chapters in this part offer a description of a typical day in the observed classroom; a brief…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Class Organization, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques
Barnes, Susan – 1983
This observer training manual was developed as a central component of a research effort, Changing Teacher Practice (CTP), which was designed to increase the frequency of effective teaching behaviors and staff development strategies in an ongoing school system. The observations focused on two major aspects of classroom teaching--instruction and…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques
Aiello, Barbara – 1981
This handbook was developed to help the teacher deal successfully with physical problems involved in having a child with cerebral palsy mainstreamed into the regular classroom. Characteristics of cerebral palsy are described, and it is pointed out that most children with this affliction have average or above average intelligence. Classroom…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Cerebral Palsy, Class Organization, Classroom Communication
Workman, Mary Burke – 1990
This study investigated the effects of grouping patterns in a cooperative learning environment on the mathematics achievement of two high school geometry classes. Heterogeneous, homogenous, random, mixed gender and single gender grouping patterns were coordinated with six similar geometry topics and students were grouped accordingly for a period…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Organization, Cooperative Learning, Educational Environment
Self, Mary Anne Nally – 1984
A study was conducted at Bunker Hill Community College to assess the impact of the use of learning groups on student absenteeism and academic performance. The study involved four sections of a Biology 1 class. Two sections were designated as the control group and were taught using the traditional course format, which involved a 2-hour session in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance Patterns, Biology, Class Organization
Mitman, Alexis L.; And Others – 1981
This study reports on work activities structures, student social cognitive understanding, and student participation as ecological perspectives from which to describe and analyze the teaching that took place in one elementary school. Detailed descriptions of the ecological features of 10 elementary school classrooms are presented, and an…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Behavior Standards, Case Studies, Class Organization
Emmer, Edmund T. – 1984
This presentation provides an overview of research on classroom management, emphasizing results from a program of research conducted at the Research and Development Center for Teacher Education (University of Texas) during the last 5 years. These studies, along with others, provide a basis for describing important dimensions of teacher behavior…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
Trew, Karen – 1977
The document reports on a survey of teaching practice, pupil activity, and classroom resources in a sample of 28 rural and urban primary school classrooms in Northern Ireland. In 1974-1975 the Northern Ireland Council for Educational Research surveyed classroom resources and observed school routine, movement of pupils, changes of teachers, and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Class Organization, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research
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