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Download full textGilmour, Margy; McGregor, Cathy, Ed. – 1986
One of the basic principles of the Language Development Approach is that students must learn the language necessary to understand, talk, and write about all subject areas in order to succeed in school. This book contains information about teaching primary school science in the Northwest Territories with lessons that emphasize language. The goals…
Descriptors: Animals, Childrens Literature, Concept Formation, Curriculum Guides
Gilmour, Margy; McGregor, Cathy, Ed. – 1988
One of the basic principles of the Language Development Approach is that students must learn the language necessary to understand, talk, and write about all subject areas in order to succeed in school. This book contains information about teaching primary school science in the Northwest Territories with lessons that emphasize language. The goals…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Concept Formation, Curriculum Guides, Elementary School Science
Gilmour, Margy; McGregor, Cathy, Ed. – 1988
One of the basic principles of the Language Development Approach is that students must learn the language necessary to understand, talk, and write about all subject areas in order to succeed in school. This book contains information about teaching primary school science in the Northwest Territories with lessons that emphasize language. The goals…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Concept Formation, Curriculum Guides, Elementary School Science
Gilmour, Margy; McGregor, Cathy, Ed. – 1987
One of the basic principles of the Language Development Approach is that students must learn the language necessary to understand, talk, and write about all subject areas in order to succeed in school. This book contains information about teaching primary school science in the Northwest Territories with lessons that emphasize language. The goals…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Concept Formation, Curriculum Guides, Dinosaurs
Richards, Anne L.; Luong-Van, Susan – 1992
Consensus and visitation moderation are applied to Year 10 and Year 11 English and mathematics with the aim of achieving comparable standards across the Northern Territory (Australia). Additional aims are to provide professional support and inservice for teachers and to improve performance standards. Moderation involves meetings of teachers and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Administrator Attitudes, Administrators
Zitlow, Connie Swartz – 1986
Noting that teaching methods are ineffectual unless teacher education students are aware of their preconceptions and internalizations, a study explored the conceptual frameworks of preservice English teachers. The study addressed the following questions: (1) Can preservice teachers objectively discuss their notions of school life, and are they…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Education Majors, Educational Research, English Instruction
Whitlock, Roger – 1987
Peter Elbow's concepts of "pointing,""summarizing,""telling," and "showing" can form an effective method for training students to give reader-based feedback to peer writing. In pointing, students jot down all the words and phrases they can remember from an oral reading of a draft. These lists stimulate…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Expository Writing, Group Discussion, Group Dynamics
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1984
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 24 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the follwing: (1) the effects of junior great books programs on students' thinking and reading skills, (2) adolescent novels and the ideology of femininity, (3) the effect of…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Advance Organizers, Annotated Bibliographies, Black Literature
Brooks, Charlotte K., Ed.; And Others – 1985
Intended for teachers of black students at all levels, this book presents teaching approaches and methods that are known to be appropriate for blacks and that are based on both research and practice in the areas of language, reading, writing, and literature. Among the topics discussed in the 43 essays are the following: (1) language and the…
Descriptors: African Literature, Black Dialects, Black Education, Black Literature
Bilotta, Cynthia, Ed. – 1984
This document includes the proceedings of a conference that made the following points about American society now and in the future: (1) racial changes in demographics require preparing urban minority students for entrance into scientific and technological fields; (2) the science/mathematics education movement of the late 1950s into the 1970s has…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Elementary School Students
Bilson, Barbara, Ed.; Ryan, Kevin J., Ed. – Inside English, 1984
Designed primarily for English faculty at two-year colleges in California, "Inside English" includes articles on instructional innovations in teaching remedial writing, literature courses, and freshman composition, and on major curricular, administrative, and employment issues in the field. The four issues of volume 11 include the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College English, College Faculty, Community Colleges
Tchudi, Stephen N., Ed. – 1985
The keynote addresses and study group reports of the International Federation for the Teaching of English (IFTE) seminar are presented in this book. It begins with an introduction by Stephen N. Tchudi which explores the issues and concerns that cut across several or all of the reports and speeches. Part 1, "International Perspectives on Language,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Education, Educational Theories, English Instruction
Day, Richard; And Others – 1977
This research report deals with the transformations of stimulus sentences that primary grade speakers of Hawaii Creole English (HCE) made when they were asked to repeat sentences said to them in Standard English. The test used was the Kamehameha Early Education Program (KEEP) Standard English Repetition Test (SERT) which was administered to the 21…
Descriptors: Child Language, Creoles, Deep Structure, Dialect Studies
Evertson, Carolyn M.; And Others – 1977
The stability of classroom behavior is examined from several perspectives: (1) the relative consistency of teacher behavior in two different sections of the same course taught concurrently; (2) the relative consistency of student behavior in math and English classes attended concurrently; and (3) differences in student and teacher behavior in math…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Data Analysis
Newton, Eunice Shaed – 1982
Assuming that nontraditional institutions espouse teaching and learning approaches that differ from conventional elitist college education, this book shows what can be done for high-risk students, and also how it can be done. Their philosophical orientations are identified and related to instructional content, objectives, and strategies. Chapters…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, College Instruction, College Students, Community Colleges
