This article provides an example of how a television station and a teacher education program located at the University of Central Missouri partnered to provide on-air lessons for kindergarten through fifth grade lessons to respond to the academic need due to the school shutdowns in spring 2020 because of COVID-19. The article highlights how three…

One of the serious problems associated with Indian school education has been high dropout rate. The reasons are many and varied but the major constraints are: non-availability of adequate number of competent and trained teachers in most of the schools and separate room for each class. To overcome such problems and increase equitable access to all,…

Describes "Adventure: Economics, a series of 15 instructional television programs designed to teach fourth to sixth grade Ohio school children the fundamentals of the economic process "through the actions of 14 marionettes, the inhabitants of an imaginary island society which is developing an economic system." (Author/LS)

Results of a survey showed that 95% of Minneapolis, Minn., elementary school children are exposed to educational television (ETV) lessons. The typical classroom teacher used ETV in three or four subject areas. More than nine out of 10 teachers reported satisfaction with the programs used. More than 80% of the teachers were satisfied with…

The Essential Learning Skills television project is a series of 60 quarter-hour programs for the fifth and sixth grades being produced by the Agency for Instructional Television for a consortium of Canadian and American education organizations. (Author/IRT)

So long as we continue using television chiefly to supplement objectives from other media, and until we look to whatever new potential it offers, the fine dream of educational television may not come to pass. (Author)

The creator, producer, and star of Merlin the Magician," a syndicated educational television series, describes how he is able to use his interest grabbing magician format to teach his young viewers a variety of things. (LS)

Authenticity of production for accurate interpretation in television programming is necessary for educational value. (JR)

Examines the audience and speical features of children's educational television. (JR)

Paper reports on the development of a television managed learning system for elementary school students. (Author)

This article discusses ways in which ITV assists in the implementation of career education in elementary schools by providing programs for student viewing. (Author)

The evolution of a Multi-Cultural Project using instructional television is traced over four years. (BD)

Children's Television Workshop recently commissioned a nationwide survey in which 736 teachers in grades 3 through 6 were asked how they access and present educational programing in their classrooms. Teachers use educational television, and they prefer 15- to 30-minute shows that focus on a single topic. (MLF)

This form of the instructional television questionnaire, intended for the upper elementary grades, consists of 15 questions to be answered by circling either yes or no, 12 sentence-completion items, and 1 question calling for three original sentences from the student about himself and television in school. (For related documents, see TM 001…