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Ists Bus To Milwaukee Nsta Regional Convention

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Why drive to the Regional NSTA Convention when you can conserve energy and relax with your colleagues on a chartered bus?

School Library Programs And Materials For Special Education Teachers And Students, Audrey Cammack

Graduate Research Papers

The primary purpose of this study was to gather information about programs and materials provided for special education teachers and students in public elementary schools in Iowa.

University Catalog 1978-1980, University Of Northern Iowa

UNI Programs and Courses Catalogs

Table of Contents

University Map ... 4 - 5
University Calendar ... 6 - 7
The University and Its Program ... 8
General Information ... 11
Student Housing ... 11
Student Services ... 13
Student Financial Aid ... 16
Student Activities and Honors ... 19
University Facilities and Educational Services ... 22
University Policies ... 36
Admission Procedures ... 36
Transfer Students ... 39
Resident-Nonresident Student Classification ... 42
Requirements for Graduation ... 44
Teaching Certificates ... 46
Enrollment and Registration ... 47
Fees Schedule ... 48 - 50
General Academic Policies ... 51
Curricula ... 62
Undergraduate Curricula ... …

Content Analysis And Categorization Of Violence In Young Adult Novels, Janice Burriss Reelitz

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this paper was to develop a means of identifying and categorizing violence in young adult novels. The professional literature reviewed helped to determine a working definition of violence and also provided insights for the researcher on how violence is categorized in the various medias by educators and socialogists. The identification and categorization of violence was applied to ten selected novels to form the basis for this research. The researcher selected five experts in the field of young adult literature who were interviewed and asked to submit ten or more titles of novels that they knew young adults …

West Waterloo High School Students’ Attitudes Concerning The Instructional Materials Center, Karen Mukai

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this study was to analyze specific aspects of the West Waterloo High School IMC program. The analysis was accomplished by surveying a random sample of students' attitudes and evaluating these attitudes.

State Of Our Health In 1978 - Speech Education, Jon Hall

Iowa Journal of Communication

The intent of this article is to examine the status of the speech education discipline, to discuss the current relationship between the secondary school and the university; as well as to suggest some pursuits from which we might mutually derive benefits.

The Effectiveness Of Two Methods Of Teaching Card Index Skills To Third Graders, Jo Bader

Graduate Research Papers

This research study set out to determine if an audio-tutorial package or a slide-tape learning package was more effective in teaching card index skills. The researcher predicted no significant difference at the .05 level in the two groups. Literature was reviewed on audio-tutorial packages, characteristics of media, the projected image, and theories of learning. The two learning packages were designed, piloted, and revised. The population was thirty third grade students at Grant Elementary School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. This population was randomly divided into two treatment groups. The students took similar pretests and post tests and completed the same follow-up …

Instructional Role Of The Media Specialist, Patricia S. Adams

Graduate Research Papers

A study was made to investigate the number of elementary school media specialists part1e1pat1n.g 1n the instructional program. Additional problems of the study were to further investigate what instructional tasks were performed and what values were assigned to the instructional tasks in a total media program.

A survey instrument was distributed to one hundred fifteen Iowa elementary school media specialists in April, 1975. The instrument was used to assess the following, (1) if the recipient was an elementary media specialist employed full time in one attendance center; (2) if the recipient participated with the teaching staff in planning, designing, implementing, …

A Case Study Of Professional Media Personnel Reductions In The Cedar Rapids Community Schools From 1973-74 And 1977-78, Jacki Steel

Graduate Research Papers

This was a study of professional media personnel staffing and/or reductions that occurred in the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Community School District for the period between 1973-74 and 1977-78. The purpose of the study was to gain insight into changes in enrollment compared to professional media staffing changes and also the effects that staffing changes had on media services. Literature searches were made of both library literature and general education literature to examine procedures and criteria used in media staff reductions, Information about Cedar Rapids Community Schools concerning declining enrollments, school closures, media personnel or position reductions, criteria for staffing and/or …

The Role Of The School Library Media Specialist As Perceived By School Administration Students And School Library Media Specialist Students At The University Of Northern Iowa, Mary Engelkes

Graduate Research Papers

This research study was an attempt to answer the question: Do school administration students and school library media specialist students enrolled at the University of Northern Iowa possess similar perceptions of the following segments of the role of the school library media specialist: materials specialist, curriculum developer, teacher, technical processor, administrator, participator in extramural activities, and clerical-aide?

Iowa Journal Of Speech Communication, Volume 10, Number 1, Fall 1978 [Download Entire Issue]

Iowa Journal of Communication

No abstract provided.

On Visual Art And Camouflage, Roy R. Behrens

Faculty Work

In a number of books on visual fine art and design [1, 2], there is mention of the kinship between camouflage and painting, but no one has, to my knowledge, pursued it. I have intermittently researched this relationship for several years, and my initial observations have recently been published [3]. Now I have been awarded a faculty research grant from the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to pursue this subject in depth. I am, therefore, collecting documents and personal accounts pertaining to historical and theoretical connections of the kind that are listed below.

Changing The Role Of The Media Specialist In Curriculum Planning At Decorah Senior High School, Richard J. Valley

Graduate Research Papers

This research project was conducted in the fall of 1977 at Decorah Senior High School, Decorah, Iowa, where the media specialist had an inactive role in curriculum planning and implementation. The media specialist recognized the need to change his role in curriculum planning to an active role, involved at the planning stage rather than reacting during implementation.

A Rationale For One-Year Teacher Internship, Arlie Daniel

Iowa Journal of Communication

The idea of the one-year internship for teacher trainees has been widely discussed for at least a decade. For the most part, however, the actual implementation of such a program has never been brought to fruition. The lack of widespread acceptance and support for this approach to an old, nagging problem has been a disappointment, not only for the advocates of the idea, but also for many of the teacher trainees who have passed through one of the current attempts to educate an undergraduate student to become a proficient elementary or secondary teacher.

Survey Of Iowa Teacher Preparation Programs In Speech Communication, Douglas M. Trank

Iowa Journal of Communication

Institutions and individuals involved in the preparation of speech and drama teachers in Iowa currently face a number of critical issues. The Speech Communication Association, in consultation with the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education programs, has prepared a detailed set of guidelines for undergraduate and graduate speech and drama education programs. These guide-lines will be used to evaluate college and university teacher education programs that wish to obtain or maintain N.C.A.T.E. approval in the future. Eighteen Iowa institutions currently hold N.C.A.T.E. endorsement in secondary speech education.

A Survey Of The Selection Procedures And Practices Used In The Employment Of Superintendents In Iowa Public Schools, Joseph Hrecz

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of the study was to determine the selection practices used in the employment of public school superintendents in the State of Iowa. The study was centered on how closely and how extensively Iowa public school boards followed recommended selection procedures.

The method used was a survey instrument mailed to the president of the board of directors of the sixty-five Iowa public schools in which a vacancy for the superintendency occured during 1977. Forty-five replies were received for a response of 69.2 percent. Data was tabulated according to school enrollment and for all schools.

The prominent findings were (1) …

A Survey Of Selected Iowa Colleges And Universities And Their Elementary Teacher Education Programs For Ige Training Of Preservice Teachers, Leotis D. Swopes

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of the study was to survey the Elementary Teacher Education Programs (ETEPs) of Iowa's three public institutions of higher learning and Iowa's three largest non-public institutions of higher learning. Using a questionnaire and interview method, the survey was to answer two questions: 1. Do (ETEPs) at Iowa's six sample institutions of higher learning prepare preservice teachers through an IGE Teacher Education Program for IGE elementary schools in the state? 2. Do ETEPs of Iowa's six sample institutions of higher learning prepare preservice teachers for IGE elementary school programs in the state?

A 10-item questionnaire with subdivisions was used …

Language Concept Development In Differentially Educated Deaf Children: The Aural/Oral Versus A Simultaneous Approach, Sheril L. Doughman

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The present study was designed to compare the understanding of the fifty items on the Boehm Test of Basic Concepts (Boehm, 1971) in three groups of eight children ranging in age from 5-3 to 11-6 years. One group consisted of deaf children who were primarily educated in the aural/oral method (AOM). This approach is said to utilize residual hearing, amplification, speech, and speechreading while signing is discouraged or forbidden. The second group consisted of deaf children who were taught in a simultaneous method approach (SM). Natural gestures, fingerspelling, facial expression, body language, and a signed language system in conjunction with …

A Perceptual Study Of Emotion In Esophageal Speech, Charles Carlisle Ellis

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This study was designed to investigate the perceivability of emotion in esophageal speech. Specifically, the questions under study were: (1) Are naive listeners able to accurately perceive emotional intention from auditory samples of esophageal speech? (2) Are the listeners' judgments of emotion from esophageal speech made with as much confidence as similar judgments made on normal laryngeal speech? A perceptual paradigm was utilized in which listeners made emotion judgments from speech samples of one laryngeal and one esophageal speaker. Two master audiotape recordings were constructed. Each contained a listening corpus of 75 randomly distributed grammatically complete, content-constant sentences. Each audiotape …

The Future Of Man, The Great Disperser, Elmer Rosauer

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

We are living in a world which, depending on personal attitude, may to some degree be materialistic in its value orientation, but most certainly is materials-oriented. (Materials are defined here as substances that become useful to society after some form of processing, e.g., mining, harvesting, refining, or fabrication. This excludes foods, drugs, water, and fossil fuels). There are strong indications that the rate and degree of change in the use of materials by our children -and theirs- will reach a point beyond what we can presently envision. In fact, the current emphasis on precarious supplies of fossil fuels has tended …

Front Matter - Table Of Contents - Preface

Iowa Journal of Communication

No abstract provided.

Editor's Note, Douglas M. Trank

Iowa Journal of Communication

No abstract provided.

The "Back To Basics" Movement, Threat Or Opportunity, Samuel L. Becker

Iowa Journal of Communication

The Back to Basics movement that appears to be sweeping parent-teachers associations and school boards, if not school systems, presents those of us in speech communication with both a threat and an opportunity. If, as in many communities, the “basics” are assumed to be synonymous with the three R's, the curricular and extracurricular speech communication programs in our schools are in danger. Since they are not “basic,” they are frills, easily dispensable so that more time and support can be given to reading, writing, arithmetic, and other fundamental, “academic” subjects. This would not be the first time in the history …

On Building The Profession, James F. Weaver

Iowa Journal of Communication

For the last five years each winter quarter I have been guest for a day in our Methods of Teaching Speech class. I have never quite decided the real reason for my annual appearance. The invitation is always issued under the guise of my talking about tournament administration or “will I say a word or two about professional organizations?'' When I seem hesitant, my colleague who teaches the class butters me up by saying that these future teachers should be exposed to my organized delivery. (Does this mean how I say it is more important than what I say?) After …

Back Cover

Iowa Journal of Communication

No abstract provided.

Personality Needs Of High School Debaters, Ruth Strenski,, Valerie Swarts

Iowa Journal of Communication

The Developmental Conference on Forensics has inspired this study to determine the intended and unintended effects of debate experience on personality development. One of the resolutions adopted by the conference suggests the potential value of such a study: Forensics should be viewed as humanistic education. Forensics educators should provide a wholesome, exciting learning environment in which students are encouraged to develop positive attitudes toward the worth of ideas and toward themselves, other persons, and society at large.

Patriotic Unit, Judith M. Finkelstein, Jean Kelly, Delsie Charais Foreman

Faculty Publications

The young child learns patriotism through music; art; games; and dramatic activities. Concepts in history (names; dates; events) geography; and civics are introduced through specific activities. The media are used as a source of information. Art activities; listening to original stories; musical activities; pantomime; and role playing provide opportunities for creativity development. Methods for interrelating the various subjects are detailed. Cognitive goals include: (1) the name and location of the United States; (2) why the Revolutionary War was fought; (3) the purpose of the U.S. Constitution; (4) the names of the founding fathers; (5) how life during the colonial era …

Dates To Remember

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

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The Junior Academy

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Joe Moore, Science Consultant with the Area Education Agency of Elkader, has been selected as the new Director of the Iowa Junior Academy of Science. IJAS provides a medium of communication and service to students and teachers in assisting science-prone students in the development and recognition of their science skills.

A Checklist Of The Aquatic And Wetland Vascular Plants Of Iowa: Ii. Monocotyledons, Plus A Summary Of The Geographic And Habitat Distribution Of All Aquatic And Wetland Species In Iowa, Thomas G. Lammers, A. G. Van Der Valk

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

A total of 188 monocotyledons are considered aquatic or wetland species in Iowa. For each species, information is given on its synonymy, habitat, frequency of occurrence and distribution (including a distribution map). This information was obtained primarily from published floristic surveys. The geographic and habitat distributions of all aquatic and wetland species in Iowa are also discussed.