This publication for methods instructors contains articles dealing with science education in elementary schools. Titles of articles appearing in this issue are: The Unit Box Approach, Let's Take Science Out of the Mouths of the Teacher and Put It into the Hands of the Child, Environmental Education and the Inservice Teacher, A Comparison of Two…

This study investigates how public school teacher of grades K-6 utilize their scheduled times free of students, excluding lunch and recess. A questionnaire that included items about a) respondents' position, b) time schedules, and c) usual duties performed during times free of students was sent to 36 participating schools. Sixty-three percent of…

The goal of North Carolina Central University's "new" program is to design a sequence of experiences that will prepare teachers who demonstrate their competence in terms of agreed-upon behaviors. The first component is divided into nine module clusters. The modules in the component relate to the job of the teacher, innovations which are…

This study identifies similarities in the value hierarchies of elementary school teachers in four desegregated schools to determine if an inservice workshop in value clarification significantly changed the value characteristics of teachers, according to their rank ordering on the Rokeach Value Survey. Four Tempe, Arizona schools held three…

The performance of the graduates of the Fort Hays Kansas State College's teacher education program was evaluated by their employers to determine the adequacy of the college's elementary and secondary education programs. The Kansas State Department of Education developed two questionnaires, one consisting of 16 performance-related items for rating…

The Experimental Student Teaching/Differentiated Staffing Program involved hiring selected elementary education students in their senior year as half-day teacher aides for the full public school year. Within this program, teaching methods courses were conducted at the site by university personnel on selected afternoons during the fall semester;…

This final report of Project READ--a program aimed at optimum development of communication skills for each learner through an intensive re-education of teacher personnel in diagnosis and prescription procedures--includes sections on statistical data, data for the United States Office of Education, staff development, extent of adoption, extent of…

This report presents the highlights of a year's experience with the advisory approach to the in-service education of elementary school teachers. The term "advisory" is defined as in-service assistance to teachers that is provided only at their request, in terms of their own goals, and "in situ" rather than in formal courses; it is designed in such…

This article describes a project conducted by an elementary school district in Illinois, in which public school personnel played a major role in the development of prospective teachers by designing training procedures with direct applicability to classrooms within the local schools. More emphasis was placed on classroom experience for the…

This study determined the effects of teaching prospective teachers Gagne's conditions for rule learning. Forty-eight students in the Social Sciences Methods Course for Elementary Teachers at Auburn University were randomly arranged in two groups. Both groups learned to develop a teaching unit to teach concepts, while only the experimental group…

Science educators from Plymouth State College and elementary teachers from New Hampshire's Supervisory Union 48 organized as a cooperative committee to develop a program: 1) to stimulate and assist New Hampshire school districts in modernizing their elementary school science programs by providing a model program for their observation,…

Giving sixth-grade teachers information as to how their pupils described their actual and their ideal teacher on 12 items of teacher behavior significantly changed in the direction of the pupils' initial ratings of their ideal teacher, and also made the teachers more accurate in predicting their pupils' descriptions of the teacher. Subjects of the…

This document summarizes a four-volume report on the Wisconsin Elementary Teacher Education Project (WETEP) covering the period from November 1967 to March 1969. The project was designed to provide improved elementary education through individualization of learning and instruction, to improve the quantity and quality of personal contact between…

This exercise simulates the planning of an instructional program for the second week of the sixth grade in an elementary school. The goal is to influence the planning so that the personal talents and interests of each member of the six person staff team will be best used in the planned activities. The six staff roles are senior instructor,…

A self-concept test was developed for use in a mathematics course for prospective elementary teachers in which a master learning approach was being tried. The 27-item test contains two scales that measure (1) satisfaction and (2) change in the way the subject feels with respect to each item. Coefficient alpha reliabilities were .86 for Scale I and…