The urban Teachers Corps has evolved into the Portal School Program, a vehicle for introducing innovative educational techniques which actually work with youngsters, into the mainstream of the school ...system. (Author/AM)
Describes the models and programs being developed by the Commission of Inquiry into High School Journalism to improve the quality of journalism education at the secondary level. (RB)
Describes innovative ways in which substitute teachers have been used to free middle school science teachers during the day to attend inservice sessions. (JR)
Preliminary results are reported for courses in college algebra and trigonometry based on the Postlethwait audio-tutorial minicourse system which were developed at Indiana University-Purdue ...University at Fort Wayne (IPFW). Two IPFW faculty members, two secondary teachers, and two undergraduate mathematics majors formed a minicourse project team supported by a National Science Foundation Grant with each team member responsible for authoring a number of minicourses, i.e., writing study guides, designing art work in the study guides, developing the tape scripts and preparing the manuscripts for duplication. Although one individual was responsible for a given minicourse, the end product was a team effort. Instruction was designed to involve students actively in three different types of study sessions--independent study, weekly general assembly sessions, and integrated quiz sessions for small groups. The study guide for the minicourse on exponential functions is included. (JEG)
This study proved an alternate secondary teacher education program at the University of Victoria to be a success. The most distinguishing characteristic of the program is that selected student ...teachers spend the entire school year situated in one of two secondary schools in the Saanich, British Columbia, school system. During this time students remain registered at the University of Victoria and receive a salary as well from the Saanich School District. During the course of the year, student teachers (working under the guidance and supervision of sponsor teachers and university supervisors) assume full responsibility for one class and serve as a teaching assistant in another class. Teaching schedules are rearranged at the end of the first semester. Student teachers are encouraged to become heavily involved in assisting with extracurricular activities and other school activities. A questionnaire mailed to all participating teachers and students in June 1978 is appended. (MM)
This compilation of teaching programs, prepared by the Institute of Human Values in Medicine, consists of self-descriptions of 29 medical school programs which teach human values and the humanities ...to students of medicine and other health professions. These self-descriptions were prepared by the program directors at the invitation of the Institute. This third edition provides an updating of programs previously listed and the addition of a significant number of new programs. Arranged alphabetically by state, each description generally includes the following information: title of program, funding, administrative structure and staffing, history of the program, description of the current program, rationale, style of teaching, evaluation, and problems and plans for change. (BT)
The author's main objective in compiling this book on elementary physical education was to give both the classroom teacher and specialist a simple, yet practical, model for an individualized physical ...education program stressing movement education with a theme-oriented approach. This model is meant to augment or supplement the current program to the degree desired without requiring a previous period of formalized training. The book provides the reader with more than 500 movement problems and suggestions for the new physical education. Included in the first chapter are fifty theme-oriented movement lessons. Each of the thirteen themes begins with a lesson utilizing no apparatus and is followed by two or more lessons with different pieces of small equipment. At the end of the chapter, eight additional movement lessons are available for work on large apparatus. Complete directions are included to simplify implementation. The second chapter offers ideas for motivation, out-of-class assignments, and evaluation that will assist the reader in supplementing a program. The final chapter is an illustrated section on information concerning purchasing, construction, and ideas for using the twenty-five items of inexpensive and homemade equipment essential in the physical education classroom. (SK)
An experimental teacher preparation program was established whose major distinguishing feature consisted of increasing the amount of time spent by college juniors in an elementary school classroom. ...The education course met at the elementary school instead of at the college. This study attempted to provide empirical data regarding the effect of the program on students' attitudes toward teacher education. For more than half of the 12 students in the experimental program this course was the first education course they had taken; another quarter had taken or were taking an additional four credits in education. The control group of 25 students had begun their teacher preparations the previous semester. A questionnaire was administered to the participants in this program to determine their positive or negative attitudes toward the teacher preparation program. The results showed that although the experimental group had a significantly more positive attitude toward its program than did the control group, both groups had positive attitudes. Results also indicated that while a school-based program may be a step in the right direction, simply providing increased classroom exposure to students early in their education work is not in itself sufficient to meet students' needs completely, since many students felt there was room for improvement in teacher education. (JMF)
