Well-written curriculum materials are known to support teacher learning. Less discussion has focused on whether teachers' guides, curriculum materials written specifically for teachers by textbook publishers, provide sufficient support. In this study, I analyse four US-based mathematics teachers' guides to understand the opportunities within them…

It is imperative that students learn to read in the early grades, yet many fail to do so in developing countries. Early grade reading interventions have emerged as a common means to attempt to address this problem. This paper presents a definition of early grade reading interventions as interventions that employ a combination of five components:…

This handbook was prepared to aid teachers and teacher educators spread the messages "think metric" and "live metric." It includes a project description of a metric evaluation program and discussions of (1) an inservice training component; (2) a course outline for training programs; (3) the arguments for and against use of the metric system; (4)…

The study, with 52 preservice special education teachers, focused on effects of two types of teacher manual design and two levels of material complexity on comprehension of instructional materials utilization. Two materials were selected from an instructional materials collection for less complex material and for more complex material,…

The population for which this instructional program has been found to be effective includes preservice and inservice elementary teachers who teach science. At the end of this instructional module, the participants should be able to: (1) given a set of data and a set of statements about the data, distinguish between those statements of fact and…

By using this instructional module the participants should be able to: (1) predict the behavior of two magnets prior to their being placed close to each other; (2) identify and describe the magnetic forces acting on a bar magnet that is free to rotate; (3) demonstrate a method for determining the lines of force in a magnetic field; (4) identify…

In a study to evaluate instructional material as a function of teacher manual format and material complexity, 52 preservice special education teachers, 19 to 24 years of age, positively rated simple material when it was accompanied by an illustrated poorly organized manual. Inclusion of a well organized, illustrated manual eliminated differences…

Fifty-two special teachers in training examined a simple version (illustrations, differentiated sections, large headings) and a complex (single-spaced undifferentiated test) version of a teachers manual to determine effects of manual design and complexity level on comprehension. (MC)

These materials were developed to help high school teachers to become familiar with the approach to tenth-grade Euclidean geometry which was adopted by the School Mathematics Study Group (SMSG). It is emphasized that the materials are unsuitable as a high school textbook. Each document contains material too difficult for most high school students.…

At the completion of this instructional module participants should be able to: (1) distinguish between statements that are hypotheses and those that are not; (2) construct a hypothesis, given a set of observations and/or inferences; (3) construct and demonstrate a test of a hypothesis; (4) identify data from a test which supports or does not…

This instructional module has three main goals: (1) to establish the need and functionality of behaviorally stated objectives, (2) to establish a common functional language by which to describe behavior, and (3) to generate ability to construct specific descriptions of the expected student performance. An underlying purpose of this module is to…

Objectives for this module include the ability to: (1) describe properties of an object or event using all five of their senses; (2) construct statements that are observations and inferences. The population for which this instructional program has been found to be effective includes preservice and inservice elementary school teachers who teach…

This Instructor Guide is designed to acquaint the teacher educator with the Utah State University Protocol Project training materials. It deals with the protocol materials generally and with each module specifically, including the following: (a) an introduction to, and rationale for protocol modules; (b) ways of identifying specific kinds of…

These materials are intended to explain the approach adopted by the writers of the SMSG textbook, First Course in Algebra. This book is not a ninth-grade textbook or teacher's commentary. Many of the ideas presented are too difficult for most beginning students, but they are ideas which the author believes teachers should master. It is assumed…

This volume was prepared by the School Mathematics Study Group (SMSG) to help elementary teachers develop a sufficient subject matter competence in the mathematics of the elementary school program. Background material for related SMSG materials for grades four through eight are included. Chapters in the book are: (1) What is Mathematics; (2)…