Research and curriculum development projects have investigated ways to make teaching and learning basic facts easier. Reseach results and implications from four major projects are presented. Ten specific guidelines are then given and illustrated by examples from addition. Modifying instructional sequence and matching learning tasks with learning…

Identifies six "back-to-basics" factors that can have a positive effect on future industrial arts education program development: the instructor, students, objectives, content, methods and techniques, and evaluation. (CT)

The basic skills and techniques of playing the horn, trumpet, tuba, and other brass instruments are quite similar, but the methods and concepts used to teach these skills vary considerably. Differences in both philosophy and methodology are described. (Editor/KC)

Because geography begins right outside the school door, teachers can structure learning activities that link classroom learning to events in the local community and the world. These activities can be organized in a program leading students from description (reading the landscape) through explanation to prediction. (MLH)

Considers Mina Shaughnessy's metaphor likening the experience of basic writers to that of "uncultured natives" under European colonization. Advocates decolonizing the classroom by devising a pedagogy of voice in a dialogized space that is continually reconstructed from different locations and identities. (HB)

Through her work as a consultant, Burns has found that a handful of students in all classes lack an adequate foundation in basic math concepts and lag far behind their peers in both understanding and skills. Students who lack a foundation on which to build new learning are generally not well served even by well-planned, differentiated instruction;…

After a discussion of reading skills needed for social studies, a directed reading activity is described as a systematic approach to developing comprehension skills in the social studies curriculum. (Author/KM)

This paper defines censorship as the "removal of any information considered secret" and argues that the ambivalence among English Teachers concerning what should be taught leaves students unevenly educated and unable to see the relationship between courses in the English classroom and the survival skills necessary for the "real world" they are…

The teaching plans in this manual are designed to help teachers to familiarize their students with basic features of the English language. Each lesson is divided into five sections: The Warmup, which includes review of previously taught material; the Oral Presentation and Repetition; Reading and Writing (group and/or individual instruction);…

Teaching grammar to freshman composition students can be accomplished without turning the class into a remedial course or expending an undue amount of either student or teacher energy. Before grammar can have meaning for students, however, writing itself must become important to them. The teaching of the mechanics of language, therefore, should…

An adjustment period in the transition from group instruction to individualized approaches is suggested as partly contributing to the decline in achievement scores in mathematics. (MP)