The elementary school instructional program for the disadvantaged children in Leflore County, Mississippi, was examined in the subject areas of (1) reading; (2) speaking, writing, and spelling; (3) mathematics; (4) social studies; (5) science and health; (6) art; and (7) music. Some general recommendations to help meet these rural children's needs…

The Portal School concept envisions a group of schools established in school systems that work closely with a university and that desire to participate in teacher education. This monograph represents a collection of experiences shared by initial developers of the Portal School strategy -- Florida State University, the University of Georgia, and…

The individualization of instruction, (the IGE program), the built-in planning system which provides released time, and the curriculum coordination of the Instructional Improvement Committee increase the probability for the establishment of a cognitive, practical approach to learning. (Author)

Describes several activities which might be used in inservice courses to help language arts teachers experience the process of writing. (DD)

Evaluated with 25 regular classes was the effectiveness of three curriculum teaching processes of developing creativity based on J. Gowan's rational-psychedelic continuum. (BB)

Two studies were conducted to assess the effects of teacher training in analogical reasoning on students' performance of analogy tasks. Participants were 25 fourth-grade teachers and their students, and 23 three to eight year old children in special summer enrichment classes. Results and implications for educational practice are discussed.…

Considers the change in attitude about teaching keyboarding in the elementary school and outlines objectives for an inservice workshop to train elementary school teachers to teach keyboarding for computer literacy. (SK)

This study compares the effects of two teacher training programs designed to emphasize one of two forms of behavior modification in teaching economics to fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade pupils. (DMT)

Emphasizes the importance of inservice education based on findings that the teacher is more important than the method, and makes suggestions as to what should and should not be covered in a program. (MD)

Assesses an experimental and control group of 16 teachers and 412 heterogeneously-grouped students to determine the impact of a specific inservice teacher training program on student achievement. Shows positive results, with the experimental group gaining at a significant level over the control group following training. (Author/AH)

In Anchorage, Alaska, resource teachers in the Classroom Music Program trained 450 elementary teachers to handle music in their own classrooms by means of packet-type lesson formats, a Music Jamboree cycle, and an assembly that reinforces previous teaching. (AM)

Research conducted with a sample of 86 classroom teachers concerning the teaching of reading suggests that the needs they report must be analyzed by objective means to determine the underlying conditions that result in expression of the symptoms. (Author/MLF)

This short quiz for teachers is intended to help them to brush up on their calculator operating skills and to prepare for the types of questions their students will ask about calculator idiosyncracies. (SJL)

Reports on a 1979 survey of 183 elementary music specialists in Connecticut, Indiana, and Washington state on their use of Orff and/or Kodaly music education techniques and their attendance at workshops on these two methods. (SJL)

Evaluation of a teacher-training program in school management targeted at middle managers is based on a survey of 129 course participants, with a 76 percent response rate. Participants were satisfied with course content, delivery strategies, and support facilities; dissatisfied with the lack of direct school experience. (Contains 5 tables and 34…