A total of 130 applicants participated in this 6-week EDPA project held at four different universities. The content of the institute centered primarily around the following major categories: 1) philosophy of vocational education, 2) methods of teaching vocational education, 3) teaching the disadvantaged student, 4) psychology of the adolescent, 5)…

This report provides an indepth guide for the development of a summertime inservice training program for social studies teachers. The course is based on a 38-hour, three-week institute for 12 New York city secondary school teachers held during the summer of 1974. The program content covers four skill areas including the inquiry method, class…

It was hypothesized that 1) prospective teachers who have been trained in microplanning will score higher on tests of teacher effectiveness and 2) will not change their attitudes about pupils and teaching in an undesirable direction. Subjects were 20 secondary school social studies majors, 10 who volunteered to take an experimental teacher…

THE AIM OF THIS TENTATIVE SYLLABUS FOR TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR TEACHERS OF SPANISH IS TO INTEGRATE MORE CLOSELY THE LANGUAGE PRACTICE, APPLIED LINGUISTICS, AND METHODS ELEMENTS OF THE TRAINING COURSE AND TO RELATE THEM DIRECTLY TO THE PRACTICE ELEMENT BY THE INTRODUCTION OF MICROTEACHING. THE FIRST PART OF THIS FOUR-PART SYLLABUS IS ON APPLIED…

A specific scheme is provided for the teacher trainee, the experienced teacher, and the supervisor to assist in organizing and evaluating multicomponent English lessons. Based on the premise that effective instructional moves must be pre-structured and time sequences left flexible, 12 specific lesson/teaching strategies are offered to extend the…

This outline of instruction and student guide for a postsecondary level course for instructors is one of a number of military-developed curriculum packages selected for adaptation to instruction and curriculum development in a civilian setting. The course is designed to provide the neccesary information that the student will need in planning and…

This paper analyzes the process and impact of a pre-service teacher education course assignment that engaged teacher candidates in developing and delivering an ESL professional development night for faculty colleagues and teachers from the field. The night involved a reader's theatre performance and follow-up discussion of Tara Goldstein's (2003)…