This monograph, divided into three sections, describes minicourses, outlines their possible application, presents reports from three teacher training institutions that demonstrated minicourses in conjunction with their Teacher Corps programs, and suggests guidelines for minicourse utilization in teacher education. The first section discusses the…

This document is a coordinator's handbook written to accompany the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development's "Minicourse 8: Organizing Independent Learning: Primary Level." The minicourse was designed to develop teacher skill in organizing the classroom for independent learning through joint teacher-pupil effort. The…

The overall purpose of the Independent Learning Study was to investigate the effects upon student outcomes of training teachers in the use of an innovative instructional system. The Independent Learning System, based on "Minicourse 15: Organizing Independent Learning--Intermediate Level," was the instructional system studied. "Minicourse 15" is a…