Describes a team approach including specialists in language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, and instructional media which provides coordinated methods experience for elementary teachers. (MD)

Presents a model of collective teaching and learning as a way to build deep learning of science concepts while learning about alternative ways to teach the same subject matter. Articulates coteaching/cogenerative dialoguing in terms of activity theory and the associated first-person research methodology that has been developed as a method for…

EXPLORED ARE TEACHING AND LEARNING RELATIONSHIPS OR FORMS OF CLASSROOM INTERACTION IN THE TEAM TEACHING ARRANGEMENT, AND THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THESE AND TRADITIONAL CLASSROOM INTERACTION WITH RESPECT TO STUDENT ADJUSTMENT AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT. AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO IMPROVE THE SOPHISTICATION OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH INSTRUMENTS. A 2-YEAR TEAM…

This study describes an effort to determine what teachers talk about during their team meetings and to characterize the types of contributions teachers make to their decision-making tasks. Eleven teams of volunteer teachers, used in a previous study (Molner, 1971 SP 005 510), supplied material for audio tapes. Teams met approximately once a week,…

Article concentrated on in-service growth experience not only because it is less understood and appreciated than the pursuit of advanced degrees, but because it is almost certainly the more promising of the two forms of post-baccalaurate gap-closing. (Author/RK)

A look at a teacher education course based on teaching with modules at Michigan State University. (HB)

An evaluation of two programs--the federally sponsored Teacher Corps and the Ford Training and Placement Program established at the University of Chicago in 1967-68--whose goal is to train teachers capable of acting as change agents in the schools indicates that they have not been successful in reaching this goal, and that school context is…

Although this updates an earlier bibliography developed by Helen Suchara, the new material is so extensive that it can be regarded as essentially a new publication. The 140 entries are divided into the following sections: 1) school-college cooperation in developing programs (30 entries); 2) school-college cooperation in administering programs (24…

The program focuses on the interaction among roles, aptitudes, and instructional functions of teachers. The goals of the program are to 1) train pre- and inservice teachers to work in instructional teams, 2) improve pupil achievement, 3) involve the local community in all phases of team activity, 4) develop a curriculum to train teachers to work…

Individualized instruction is defined as a process by which each learner is assisted in developing his own unique path, which may vary not only in rate, but in approach and content as well. There is concern at the present inability to provide such programs. Students must be provided opportunities to receive instruction, each at his own level. To…