NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing 361 to 375 of 887 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Maase, Elda – English Journal, 1974
Despite many shortcomings, elective programs seem to do good things for students and teachers. (JH)
Descriptors: Elective Courses, English, English Curriculum, English Departments
Harty, Kevin J. – 1977
Efforts to improve the quality of business communication often include developing tailor-made short courses that are offered "in-house" to corporation management personnel. These following guidelines, based on one corporate writing teacher's experiences, should help others to develop writing courses for businesses: obtain samples of the types of…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Business Communication, Guidelines, Improvement Programs
Schlenker, Richard – 1978
Provided is a study guide for an introductory minicourse to the principles of chemical reactions. This written text is designed to accompany a series of audio tapes and 35mm slides which the student studies at his own pace. The course presents chemical kinetics, reaction mechanisms, reaction rates, and equilibrium. (SL)
Descriptors: Chemical Equilibrium, Chemical Reactions, Chemistry, College Science
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Carter, Thomas P. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1975
The second-year French course at Dalhousie University was divided into two semesters and redesignated as separate, half-credit courses, allowing science students to complete the basic program in less than two years and allowing the others more options for the second semester. (RM)
Descriptors: College Language Programs, Course Descriptions, Course Organization, French
Lampeter-Strasburg School District, PA. – 1973
This language arts minicourse guide for Lampeter-Strasburg (Pennsylvania) High School contains a topical outline of an introduction to a poetry course. The guide includes a list of twenty course objectives; an outline of the definitions, the stanza forms, and the figures of speech used in poetry; a description of the course content and concepts to…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives, Curriculum Guides
Lampeter-Strasburg School District, PA. – 1973
This language arts minicourse guide for Lampeter-Strasburg (Pennsylvania) High School contains a topical outline of a course on the novel. The guide includes a list of seven course objectives; an outline of the elements to be studied from eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth century novels; a description of novels and concepts to be studied in…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives, Curriculum Guides
Borg, Walter R.; And Others – 1970
This paperback book reports progress in developing minicourses (short, self-instructional courses designed to train teachers in specific classroom skills) to show how these courses can make a significant contribution to the present system of teacher education and describes how research and development is used in education, using the minicourse…
Descriptors: Education Courses, Educational Development, Educational Research, Inservice Education
Far West Lab. for Educational Research and Development, Berkeley, CA. – 1970
This group of six papers deals with various aspects of the Far West Laboratory of Educational Research and Development project to develop minicourses, short inservice training courses using the microteaching technique and videotape recorder to teach specific teaching behavior patterns. Included are 1) "Overview of the Teacher Education Program,"…
Descriptors: Education Courses, Educational Development, Educational Research, Inservice Education
Gall, Meredith; And Others – 1970
The goal of Minicourse 5 is to increase the skill of inservice teachers (grades 4-6) in tutoring students whose understanding of mathematical concepts and procedures is weak. Emphasis is on actively involving the student in the tutoring process and developing his understanding, rather than rote learning, of mathematical concepts. The course…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Teachers, Inservice Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Langer, Philip; Allen, G. Edward – 1970
Minicourse 4 on interaction analysis, an autoinstructional package based on the use of microteaching and the videotape recorder, was designed (1) to train teachers to categorize their own classroom behavior, using Flanders' system, to an 80 percent correct criterion level; (2) to increase frequency in classroom discussions of category 2, 3, and 4…
Descriptors: Inservice Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Interaction Process Analysis, Microteaching
McDowell, Helen – 1974
This curriculum guide contains outlines for short courses in poetry, prose narrative, the personal essay, and the short story. Each outline lists objectives, the content emphasized, class activities, means of evaluating student performance, and the length of time for the short course. The last section of the guide presents the requirements for…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Course Content, Course Objectives, Creative Writing
Wilson, Karen P. – 1972
Developed for a high school quinmester unit on discussion and debate, this guide is designed to help students learn the elements of good discussion and informal debate in a classroom atmosphere emphasizing the democratic process. Performance objective for the course include compiling information for classroom discussions and informal debates,…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Debate, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL. – 1972
This guide provides the teacher with strategies to aid students in examining five representative plays by Bernard Shaw and in comparing his comedy with the comic art of Oscar Wilde, Richard Sheridan, Ben Jonson, and William Shakespeare. Performance objectives include isolating elements which pertain to the life and times of Shaw, delineating…
Descriptors: Comedy, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Drama
Miller, Harriet P. – 1972
This guide is designed for a seminar in which ideas arising from major social, economic, and political problems are examined. Performance objectives for the course include discussing ideas in order to arrive at solutions, conducting research on specific issues of concern chosen by each student, presenting opinions and research to the class,…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Course Content, Course Descriptions, Current Events
Snyder, Marlene – 1972
Developed for a high school quinmester unit on film, this guide provides the teacher with teaching strategies for an inquiry into the form and development of the motion picture and television film documentary, the preparation and production of students' individual or group documentaries, and the evaluation of the documentary as social commentary…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Documentaries, Elective Courses, English Instruction
Pages: 1  |  ...  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  ...  |  60