Describes a program designed for learning disabled adolescents that offers them instruction in the regular curriculum supplemented with direct and indirect services from trained special education teachers. (FL)

Information and suggestions are given to serve to motivate and assist those interested in developing a course in test-taking skills and test wiseness. The author lists 11 questions, which should be answered prior to implementing such a course. (Author/KC)

Discusses the "Philosophy for Children" program developed by Matthew Lipman and Ann Margaret Sharp of the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children at Montclair State College in New Jersey. Explains how the teaching of philosophy can also be incorporated into the teacher education curriculum. (FL)

Those who have faith in behavioral objectives are overlooking some very serious problems resulting from such faith. (Authors/CB)

Four types of analogies were described and offered as examples of ways to teach critical thinking skills. (RK)

This report covered the functioning of one group and their efforts to meet a desired level of behavioral activity. (Author/RK)

This is the ninth article in a series on education in foreign lands. It concerns a distant minority, the Lapps, and the efforts of the Scandinavian governments, Sweden, Norway and Finland, to accommodate them. (Editor/RK)

A California teacher discusses state standards and their relation to program content. (SP)

Proposes a new emphasis on teaching how to think. (FL)

Kerr and Zigmond (1986) found that 67 percent of all high school teachers surveyed viewed organizational skills as crucial for student success in school. How can teachers get their students to agree? One way is to teach organizational skills just as they would teach writing or computation skills. Explain and demonstrate what students are to do,…

Presents 19 guidelines for developing children's comprehension skills, addressed to elementary teachers and to parents of preschoolers (53 references). (SJL)

Advocates the collaboration of colleges and high schools in charting out and incorporating skills and curricular objectives central to both institutions. Provides a historical perspective. Presents data from surveys of teachers and students concerning which areas and skills should be improved among students. (HB)

Discusses how to use homework as an effective teaching method and offers creative sample assignments. (SRT)

Argues that the purpose of daily homework is either to prepare the student for the next lesson or to practice concepts and skills learned in the previous lesson. Suggests that teachers' homework policies must reflect one of these purposes. (SRT)

Discusses the problems involved in teaching reading skills to remedial readers, then offers a model for skill instruction. Provides a lesson plan that uses the model for phonics instruction. (FL)