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LAMBERT, PHILIP; AND OTHERS – 1965
THE EFFECTS OF TEAM TEACHING AND SELF-CONTAINED CLASSES ON PUPIL ADJUSTMENT WERE COMPARED. THE STUDY WAS CONDUCTED OVER A PERIOD OF 2 SCHOOL YEARS, THE SAMPLE WAS COMPOSED OF ELEMENTARY PUPILS FROM TWO SCHOOLS IN AN ECONOMICALLY DEPRESSED AREA. PUPILS WERE RANDOMLY ASSIGNED AT ONE SCHOOL TO EITHER A TEAM ORGANIZATION OR A SELF-CONTAINED CLASSROOM.…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Comparative Analysis, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary School Students
Download full textBredo, Eric – 1975
This study looks at the ways team teaching members work together, at their interdependencies, divisions of labor, and modes of coordination. It is a microorganizational study of teaching teams that looks both at factors which predict or explain how a team is organized and at the implications of these patterns of organization for (a) collegial…
Descriptors: Flexible Schedules, Interpersonal Relationship, Open Plan Schools, Peer Relationship
Jovick, Thomas; Milich, Robyn – 1976
Several years ago a group of researchers at the Stanford Research and Development Center conducted an investigation exploring team organization in elementary schools and its consequences for individual autonomy, collective control of the work setting, and job satisfaction. The findings of that study, known as the Meyer and Cohen study, were…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Leaders, Multiunit Schools, Open Plan Schools
Simmons, Marilyn – 1970
As interest in learning centers grows, such questions as "What is a learning center?" and "How does one get started?" are frequently asked. Essentially a learning center consists of designated areas within the classroom where children may go to do a specific activity related to concept development or skill reinforcement. Learning centers are based…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Independent Study, Instructional Materials, Learning Activities
Keith, Pat – 1970
This study investigated the relationship between role strain and several personal and organizational variables for teachers in self-contained classrooms and team teaching settings. Role strain was identified by the Job Related Tension Index; personal variables were identified by the Teacher Conception of the Educative Process Questionnaire; and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Leaders, Role Conflict, Role Perception
Peer reviewedMcGrough, Kris – Social Education, 1979
Discusses arguements for, but basically against, both open space classrooms and open education. Reviews studies which reveal that students in a traditional setting and program demonstrate higher basic and creative skills and reveal less anxiety than do those in a nontraditional setting. (KC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Problems, Elementary Secondary Education, Nontraditional Education
Walker, Hill M. – Exceptional Education Quarterly, 1983
The response cost (RC) procedure has been applied in regular classrooms and playgrounds, self-contained and resource rooms, and residential settings with normal children and elementary-age, behavior-disordered children. RC involves the removal of previously awarded or earned reinforcers for the purpose of reducing deviant, maladaptive, or…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques
Peer reviewedSpencer, Christopher; Taylor, Karen – Scottish Educational Review, 1980
The effects of open-plan and conventional classrooms upon patterns of friendship and levels of creativity, extraversion and neuroticism were studied in samples of 11-year-old middle-school children, matched for socioeconomic background in two schools with the different layouts but similar philosophies and teaching styles. (Author)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Creativity, Elementary School Students, Friendship
Peer reviewedJolivette, Kristine; Wehby, Joseph H.; Canale, Jennifer; Massey, N. Gayle – Behavioral Disorders, 2001
A study involving three elementary students with emotional/behavioral disorders in a self-contained special education classroom compared the effects of choice and no choice conditions on academic and social behaviors. Opportunities to make choices during academic situations positively affected the academic and social behaviors of two of the three…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Decision Making
Direct linkGuteng, Simon I. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2005
The professional concerns of beginning teachers of students who are deaf or hard of hearing were examined. Five first-year teachers of deaf and hard of hearing students served as participants. Two of the participants were itinerant teachers; three taught in self-contained classrooms. Participants were selected from programs serving deaf and hard…
Descriptors: Partial Hearing, Deafness, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Hardwig, Jay – Teacher Magazine, 2003
Many teachers celebrate the last day of school, but the author has always found it a bittersweet time. Teaching in a self-contained classroom with not more than five students, ranging in age from 15 to 20, at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, and had them most of the day, is emotionally consuming, for good or ill. While he had…
Descriptors: Self Contained Classrooms, Teacher Student Relationship, Teacher Attitudes, Disabilities
Guzel-Ozmen, Ruya – Exceptional Children, 2006
This study investigated the effectiveness of Modified Cognitive Strategy Instruction in Writing (CSIW) with mildly mentally retarded students' skills in writing problem/solution texts. Participants were from two self-contained and multiage classrooms in Turkey. Instruction had a positive impact on the amount of time students spent planning and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mild Mental Retardation, Mixed Age Grouping, Writing Strategies
Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, 2009
The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) Division of Special Education (DSE), per Section 162.1136 RSMo, conducts an annual study of the educational status of eligible blind/visually impaired students and reports the findings to the Missouri Legislature on December 1st each year. The information contained in this report…
Descriptors: Blindness, Visual Impairments, Literacy, Special Education
Piercy, David; Niems, Mike – 1983
This guide describes the development and implementation of a functional/vocational program for self contained severely and mildly handicapped students in grades K-12. The model emphasized instruction in skills needed by students to live as adults in the least restrictive way. Elementary children receive instruction in self contained classrooms and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Mild Disabilities, Prevocational Education
Des Moines Public Schools, IA. – 1989
Surveys were conducted to investigate contemporary thought regarding organizational practices at the elementary level, with particular attention to identifying the extent to which departmentalization was supported by research and actually employed in 24 elementary schools in the Midwest and in 41 Des Moines elementary schools. Four committees…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Organization, Departments, Educational Environment
