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Heathers, Glen – 1975
This unit studies enquiry as a type of educational goal and examines ways in which the teaching of enquiry is becoming a key emphasis in elementary and secondary schools. The unit's objectives focus on the definition and requirements for enquiry-focused instruction, a rationale for enquiry-focused instruction, the relations between ideas and…
Descriptors: Administrators, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
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Smith, Stephen W.; Brownell, Mary T. – Focus on Exceptional Children, 1995
Examines the current system of providing and documenting special education by analyzing the Individualized Education Program through a number of its implicit and often unquestioned assumptions. Explores flaws in the current system and makes recommendations for major changes in policy implementation, teacher education, and school organizations. (PB)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation
D'Amico, Marguerite – 1977
This booklet contains games ideas, methods, and materials used, adapted, developed, and found successful by teachers of handicapped children. (JD)
Descriptors: Educational Games, Educational Innovation, Exceptional Child Education, Handicapped Children
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Educational Programs and Studies Information Service. – 1975
Students can see more in motion picture and television productions once they realize that they are already quite knowledgeable, and these ten discovery-experience lesson units on film and television productions provide teachers with a means to let them discover for themselves that they already know several characteristics of the moving media as…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Animation, Commercial Television, Discovery Learning
Paul, Marjorie; And Others – 1976
This document consists of two manuals prepared for staff members and guidance counselors in the Learning Community (LC) program, as practiced in New Jersey's North Hunterdon Regional High School District. The staff members are described as teachers performing in multiple roles. Teachers help establish LCs around educational interests and are…
Descriptors: Counselor Role, Educational Innovation, Guidance Personnel, Guidance Programs
Trump, J. Lloyd; Georgiades, William – 1978
The fourth publication in the Model Schools series, this guide for administrators suggests changes and procedures that come mainly from the authors' experience in the Model Schools Project, a five-year program sponsored by the National Association of Secondary School Principals. The project's purpose was to demonstrate in a group of schools that…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Demonstration Programs, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
Miller, Duane I. – 1980
Although conventional approaches to teaching psychology are probably effective to some degree, it is possible that psychology should be a "hands on" science, i.e., students of psychology should learn to apply the concepts and principles of the theoretical regions of psychology and to solve open-ended problems through the application of…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Feedback, Higher Education
Call, Michael, Comp. – 1975
This booklet describes approximately 30 instructional games submitted by Oregon teachers and teacher resource centers. The games are organized in two major sections--one for reading games and one for mathematics games. Within each section, games are grouped according to the similarity of their format; for example, all "road race" games…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Class Activities, Educational Games, Educational Media
Florek, Tony – 1976
The development of a freshman studies program is summarized, noting especially the changes recommended by an outside consultant to St. Edward's University, a private university. The general education program's goals, curricular content, schedule, and sample assignments are described in detail, by curricular module. (MSE)
Descriptors: Assignments, College Freshmen, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides
Research for Better Schools, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. – 1975
This instructor's guide is for use in teaching components of a ten-unit training program for leadership in local educational change. The program offers training for persons holding, or preparing to hold, positions of leadership in planning and conducting school improvement programs. The training program consists of ten stand-alone,…
Descriptors: Administrators, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation
McAdams, John A.; Taylor, Beverly Loy – 1975
No educational program, however well designed, will be successful unless it is effectively implemented. This is just as true of "traditional" programs as of innovative or changed programs that are newly introduced in a school system. Very often, what a school system should undertake is improving the implementation of traditional programs rather…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adoption (Ideas), Educational Change, Educational Innovation
Kong, Ng Wai; Khine, Myint Swe – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 1983
Developing computer-assisted instruction courseware in which a microcomputer interfaces with videotape recordings is discussed. A sample sequence is listed. (MNS)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs, Curriculum Development
McCarty, George – Audiovisual Instruction, 1979
Describes a method of using a display calculator for communicating calculations in classroom mathematics instruction. A detailed example is included. (CMV)
Descriptors: Calculators, Display Systems, Educational Equipment, Electronic Equipment
Nelson, Eleanor T. – 1986
A comprehensive program of services for working parents who are employees of a consortium of companies is described and evaluated. With the support of the Prospect Hill Executive Office Park in Waltham, Massachusetts, the Prospect Hill Parents' and Children's Center offers parent support services, such as information and counseling, information…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Consortia, Elementary Education, Employed Parents
Ogden, Evelyn; Musumeci, Marilyn – 1977
To operationalize the Technical Assistance Brokerage System, the first major task called for the development of a taxonomy of training and technical assistance services specifying requisite skills and skill clusters by the dimensions of client type, stages of dissemination, and levels of experience. From a literature search approximately 400…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Change Agents, Classification, Diffusion
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