Reports trends and implications of interdisciplinary teaming practices in middle schools, based on findings from a national survey. Noting that nearly 80 percent of schools currently implement teaming, challenges principals and teachers to move beyond simple formation of teams to the creation of an infrastructure that supports high-performing…

Individualized instruction is a highly flexible system of multiple materials, media, and procedures in which the student, given greater responsibility for his own learning, begins on the level he is able to perform and learns systematically at his own pace. With this definition, the author describes several methods of individualized instruction.…

Describes the successful team-teaching model used to combat learning disabilities in Iowa City (Iowa) secondary schools. Regular and special education teachers work together with selected students in traditional classroom settings. The model promotes improvements in students' self-concepts, absence rates, and academic achievement, as well as in…