This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves about 8,900 educationally disadvantaged children in K-6. The program involves all 700 classroom teachers and most of the 700 paraprofessionals in 31 Title I elementary schools. The schools are located in low-income areas of a large city. The major objective of the program…

Describes a program in which native English-speaking students were immersed in a Spanish-only environment for a week. The program was so successful that teachers asked for, and got, their own program. (IRT)

The article describes the framework of two training workshops intended to help elementary classroom teachers make better use of open-ended questions and activities which foster high-level generalizations. Tables provide a summary of thinking models utilized in gifted education and sample teaching units. Eighteen generalizations for the social…

Six teachers who participated in a program to analyze their patterns of teaching with a partner were interviewed extensively. Their reactions and perceptions after working with their partner are reported. Three partnerships are described briefly. (Author/MT)

This program was developed and implemented to identify, inservice and coach elementary art teachers who did not have pre or post graduate discipline based art education (DBAE) training. The reason this training was important is because the district has written and adopted a kindergarten through twelfth grade DBAE art curriculum. The objectives for…

Analyzes a teacher training model in creative dramatics, concluding that these teacher workshops lead to better classroom techniques. (RB)

Presents i.t.a. in a way that enables a teacher to learn the i.t.a. code individually and describes i.t.a. on the basis of American pronunciation. (TO)

A K-8 computer literacy program in Alexandria, Virginia, schools calls for the use of computers in language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. The history, concepts, process, and applications of computers are taught. Teachers also receive training in computer literacy in a course taught within the school system. (MLF)

Presents a nine-step program for reviving a school's teaching of writing, including gaining faculty participation, compiling a bibliography, getting participants' descriptions of effective methods of teaching writing, and having participants present workshops built on doing, looking at, and learning from their teaching methods. Provides a…

The T. F. Davies Teacher Center of the Bradford Metropolitan School District in Yorkshire, England, is described in terms of development, operation, curriculum, and resources. (MP)

Details the findings of a survey of 301 first- through sixth-grade teachers to determine the topics they preferred for inservice training in reading. (DD)

Described is a comprehensive training component to equip the professional staff of the Montgomery County (Maryland) school district to implement mathematics curriculum revisions. Included are the determination of the training needs, design for training, evaluation of the training design, and implications of the training project. (DS)

Argues that limiting reading specialists to providing diagnosis and remedial instruction is not making full use of their knowledge and training. Asserts that reading specialists should take the lead in enhancing reading instruction by meeting with classroom teachers, doing demonstration teaching, providing inservice lessons, and suggesting…

Describes a project in which researchers work with teachers to increase their knowledge of a specific genre of writing and to use the knowledge in response to student work. Finds that few teachers used the feedback response form or scoring rubric provided to them but that teachers used many of the assessment techniques in instructional design and…