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Teaching Reading In The Secondary School: "The Fine Art Of Motivation", Kenneth Vandermeulen

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The most significant thing about motivation is that it is an intangible element in education. Its presence may only be sensed by the teacher. It does not come in units like ohms, ergs, decibels, or ounces. We're not even sure that its absence can be detected by objective measuring devices. Teachers, therefore, spend much less time studying and discussing motivation than they do in talking about programs, machines, testing instruments, and evaluation. The term motivation is frequently used by promotional representatives in describing an educational item on the market; the practice is much like the use of the term fidelity …

Reading Horizons Vol. 13, No. 2

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 13, issue 2.

Using Teacher Observation For Diagnosing Reading Problems, Wilma H. Miller, Ottilie Womack

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

This article discusses the values of using teacher observation as a diagnostic technique and illustrates how a teacher can be more effective in the diagnosis of reading problems. The article discusses using cumulative records and several different types of checklists as useful aids to teacher observation. Some of the checklists discussed are extremely valuable in locating a child's specific reading difficulties, but are not widely known by many elementary teachers.

A List Of Basic Sight Words For Older Disabled Readers, Jerry L. Johns

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The Dolch basic sight vocabulary of 220 words has generally been recognized by reading authorities as a valuable asset to reading instruction. Research by Dolch (1941), Fry (1960), and Zintz (1966) and Johns (in press) has shown that the 220 words comprising the Dolch list represent 50 to 75 per cent of all school reading matter in the elementary grades. According to Dolch, these 220 words are recognized instantly by good second-grade readers and by average third-grade readers.

An Interdisciplinary Humanities Program As An Approach To Literature, Frederick F. Ritsch

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Let me conclude with a statement from Maxwell Goldberg, the author of Design in Liberal Learning: "Without becoming amorphous or aimless," writes Professor Goldberg, "we are trying to replace the static, mechanical, closed-system, monistic, and self-contained routine thinking of conventional liberal learning with the open-structured, pluralistic, multilinear, multilectic thinking of the new liberal learning." He provides us with an excellent metaphor here: the concept of "freedom flowing into form."* And I might add, in our case we do not seek a "new humanism," but rather seek to revitalize the presentation of that humanism which is an integral part of …

Liberal Arts And Livelihood: A Dual Design For Higher Education, George E. Lamore Jr.

Perspectives (1969-1979)

True, there have been exceptions, and every educator thinks he is one, but generally speaking, the Liberal Arts student or graduate is deeply confused, disappointed and frustrated. He is aware that his college has taught him to think, but not to be a person or to do a job. For education to neglect these dimensions of the heart and hands is to produce something more tragic than the multiple amputee. It is to produce a truncated head, absolved from personhood and detached from practicality.

Austin College's New Design To Instruction, Frank Edwards

Perspectives (1969-1979)

This issue of Perspectives is devoted entirely to the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for General and Liberal Studies which was held at Oklahoma State University, October 18 through October 20, 1973.

Concurrent Session 2

In terms of the nature of the institution, we're an undergraduate liberal arts college. We offer a pretty full spectrum of concentrations. We're divided organizationally into three operating areas, the Sciences, Social Sciences, and Humanities, and offer some 20 to 25 areas of concentration, pretty much the conventional ones. But we also--and especially in our new program-have many ways in which students …

Perspectives Vol. 5 No. 3

Perspectives (1969-1979)

This issue of Perspectives is devoted entirely to the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for General and Liberal Studies which was held at Oklahoma State University, October 18 through October 20, 1973.

University Magazine Vol. 31 No. 2, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1963-1980)

• Our University
• Retired Professors
• David Quint Was Not A Name
• The Healing Generation
• WMU Sports
• Alumni News
• Class Notes
• In Memoriam

Tarrant County Junior College's Program Of General Education, Charles N. Johnson

Perspectives (1969-1979)

This issue of Perspectives is devoted entirely to the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for General and Liberal Studies which was held at Oklahoma State University, October 18 through October 20, 1973.

Concurrent Session 3

I hate to start out on a negative note, but I must say that it is entirely possible (and I'll include our programs at Tarrant County Junior College) that community colleges have probably never tried general education. General education, of course, has many interpretations and definitions, but the one I'm speaking of we haven't yet tried.

Perspectives Vol. 5 No. 1 And Supplement No. 1

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Volume 5 No. 1 Spring 1973

Supplement No. 1 Summer 1973

The University Of Utah's Program Of General Education, Oakley J. Gordon

Perspectives (1969-1979)

This issue of Perspectives is devoted entirely to the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for General and Liberal Studies which was held at Oklahoma State University, October 18 through October 20, 1973.

Concurrent Session 1

In order to present an idea of the course which the University of Utah has followed in regard to general education, Professor Gordon first read a portion of a paper which he had presented at a meeting of the American Association for Higher Education in 1970. See what he said in 1970, and then see what kind of prophet he was in …

Wmu Board Of Trustee Minutes 1973, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• MEMBERS AND OFFICERS OF THE BOARD
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• MINUTES
  • January 19
  • February 16
  • March 16
  • April 20
  • May 18
  • June 15
  • July 20
  • August 17
  • September 21
  • October 26
  • November 16
  • December 19
• APPENDIX A - HONORARY DEGREES AND AWARDS
• APPENDIX B - WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY GRADUATES
  • April, 1973
  • August, 1973
  • December, 1973
• INDEX

Reading Tests Don't Really Tell It Like It Is, George D. Masters

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Reading, at one time the hallmark of the educated man, is now the bugbear of the modem school. In other ages it was recognized that there were some children who didn't want to read, never wanted to read, and never would want to read. Today, such a student is spurred, goaded, and hounded till he either learns to read for self preservation, drops out of school, or confronted with failure, lets the world see the only R's he has learned, the wrong R's-resistance, rejection, and rebellion.

Psychic Wholeness In Blake And Jung, Walter B. Gallant

Honors Theses

There is no doubt that for most modern readers the work of William Blake is an enigma. I should like to suggest that the work of the Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung offers one way to bring a sense of order and meaning to Blake's work.

A Bibliographical Survey Of The West Indian Novel, Ruta Mara Sani

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Perspectives Vol. 4 No. 3

Perspectives (1969-1979)

This issue of Perspectives consists of papers and discussions from the Annual meeting of AGLS of Rochester Institute of Technology, Oct. 26-28, 1972.

The Identification Of Potential Predictors Of Collegiate Success Of Black Students Enrolled In A Program For Disadvantaged Minorities, As Measured By Six Separate Success Criteria, Kerry Alan Bunker

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Comparative Study Of The Labor Movements And Legislation In The United States And South Korea, Ki Yop Lim

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Study Of The Discrepancies Between Student Evaluations And Faculty Self-Perceptions Of Instructional Procedures In Higher Education, Eugene W. Thompson

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Black Studies And The Enhancement Of Self-Concept As It Relates To Achievement Level In Negro High School Students, David L. Fisher

Dissertations

This study had as its primary purpose the investigation of the effect of black studies courses upon the self-concept of Negro high school students, Specifically, it was intended to determine if selfconcept enhancement followed completion of black studies courses and if this enhancement effect was further related to prior academic achievement, A secondary purpose was to determine if self-concept enhancement was related to the sex of the student, There were two subsidiary purposes. One was to see if different black studies courses had different effects upon the self-concept of the students and the other was to determine if the four …

A Memory Training Procedure For Learning The Ordering Of Machine Set Up Instructions, Douglas Stephen Johnson

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Imitation: Some Theoretical Issues, Charles Richard Spates

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Western Official News, November 16, 1972, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Trustee Action Delineates Western's Role in Michigan's System of Higher Education, Faculty Position Reductions Listed for Colleges, Board Sets '73-'74 Budget Request at $46,308,990; Up by $5,092,000, Smoking Regulations

The Informant Volume V, Number 1, Western Michigan University

Informant (1968-1981)

Volume V, Number 1

November 1972

• Indian English
• Majors and Minors
• Student News
• Alumni News
• Faculty News
• Proposals and Handbooks
• Course Changes

Western Official News, October 31, 1972, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Trustees Approve Affirmative Action Policy In the Field of Employee Relations at Western, Faculty; Staff Vehicle Registration, Student Recruiting- Step-Up Designed To Encourage Beginners and Transfers To Consider Western Michigan University, Affirmative Action Coordinating Committee

Western Official News, October 12, 1972, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Faculty Reduction Committee Sets Criteria and Guidelines, Applications for sabbatical leaves, The University curriculum committee, Outside speakers invited by student organizations, Course offerings; office hours; meeting classes, Traffic, parking and pedestrian ordinance, Free inquiry in the classroom

Reading In The Secondary Schools, Kenneth Vandermeulen

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Many texts and articles discussing the matter of teaching reading on the secondary level recommend the establishment of reading programs which involve all members of the high school staff. Frequently, authors of such works on originating and developing reading programs will go into great detail about the ways in which committees may be given areas of concern, methods of self-evaluation, and each step to be achieved. Each stage of progress will be named and described with fine elaboration.

Reading Horizons Vol. 13, No. 1

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 13, issue 1.

Faculty Publications 1970-71, Western Michigan University

Faculty Contributions (1950-1981)

Faculty Publications 1970-71 is the ninth major compilation of the publications of the Faculty of Western Michigan University and is designed mainly to apprise the Faculty of the University of the breadth of writing of their colleagues.