Emphasis in the Jennings, Missouri, Learning Laboratory Program is placed on improving reading and language arts skills by first diagnosing and assessing the disability and then developing an individually prescribed program in which the student can utilize his strengths and remedy his weaknesses. With the goal of improving the English-reading…

This booklet is Part I of a two-part manual for teaching reading through the Systems Approach to Individualized Instruction (SAII) program developed at Manzanita Elementary School in Josephine County, Oregon. Part I is a guide for use by teacher trainers in conducting workshops on SAII methods and materials for elementary teachers. Because Part I…

The author describes an in-service teacher education course, EAA (Education for Aesthetic Awareness), the purpose of which is to teach teachers to incorporate aesthetic education into all discipline areas. All art forms (dance, music, sculpture, architecture, drama, film, poetry, literature, etc.) are represented. (KC)

How special education is gradually changing--theory, practice, public opinion. (Editor)

Working with the Humboldt County School District, the Fort McDermitt Indian Education Committee, and four Paiute Teacher aides, the University of Nevada developed a three-component project: a bilingual/bicultural reading text for K-4 Paiutes; an in-service training program in Native American education; and a pilot bilingual curriculum. (JC)

Evaluation of concerns data collected from elementary school physical education teachers during implementation of an innovation revealed three participation styles among the teachers: actualizers, conceptualizers, and resisters. (Author/CB)

An approach to help teachers understand the elementary constructs of the BASIC programing language and to begin writing simple programs is described. Short programs that illustrate educationally sound uses of computers in the classroom are used. A lesson scenario is given, with 10 program listings. (MNS)

Describes a model inservice program developed and implemented in the Bangor Township (Michigan) elementary schools, which was structured on the process approach to writing instruction. (FL)

Concludes that students whose teachers participated in process-model inservice training performed significantly better on a number of writing evaluation criteria than did those of teachers who had relied on a skills-approach technique.

This study investigated the changes in sixth graders' knowledge and attitudes about the environment, as measured by the Environmental Knowledge and Opinion Survey (EKOS) and changes in their teacher's knowledge, understanding, and teaching behavior brought about through participation in an Environmental Education Center sponsored teach in-service…

The U.S. Senate conducted a hearing consisting of two panels: the first panel discussed overcoming reading difficulties with a primary focus on children and the second panel focused on reading and literacy outreach activities that are ongoing in the U.S. After opening statements of the Hon. James M. Jeffords, the Hon. Edward M. Kennedy, and the…

Exploring the explicit teaching of reading, this book is the result of a group of Australian teachers who took a closer look at their teaching so that they could be clearer to their kindergarten through middle-school students. Chapter 1 is based on a presentation at a Saturday inservice program on explicit teaching. Chapters 2-9 were written by…

Teachers, attorneys, and law educators met to evaluate 1971 workshops in law education and to plan improved learning experiences at future workshops. Coordination between substantive law sessions and teaching methodology sessions was cited as a major necessity. Teachers were encouraged to develop their own material. (JB)

Not only are relevant and field centered preservice teacher preparation programs necessary in order to bring about desired changes in science instruction in elementary schools, but strategies should be planned for implementation of improved programs in schools as well. Guidelines are described for effecting successful change in schools. (PS)

When elementary school teachers become learners in staff development activities, they have special needs: (1) practical and concrete instruction; (2) individualized instruction; (3) extended practice time; (4) approval to modify and adapt new techniques; (5) site or team involvement; (6) instructors with teaching experience; (7) professional…