Procedures for Creating a Media Environment to Help Change Teacher Role from Disseminating Information to Guiding Independent Learners. Final Report.

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Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. Bureau of Research.

OEC-5-16-028

Curriculum; Demonstration Centers; Dial Access Information Systems; Educational Objectives; Educational Technology; Independent Study; Individualized Instruction; Inservice Teacher Education; Middle Schools; Multimedia Instruction; Nongraded Instructional Grouping; Staff Development; Student Attitudes; Student Behavior; Teacher Attitudes; Teacher Behavior; Team Teaching

This study attempted to show that preparation for and use of an audiovideo dial-select information retrieval system in a new middle school could help to change the teacher's role from that of dispenser of information to guide in an independent learning situation. Because of unavoidable delays in the installation of the dial-select equipment, the central premises of this study were never tested. This report provides a narrative history of the inservice training program that introduced staff to the dial-select system. Possible uses of this information retrieval system are described and the available evidence of change in teacher and pupil attitudes and behavior is analyzed. An account of the main operational and research problems encountered by the staff and a list of the major outcomes and recommendations conclude the report. [Photographs on pp. 72-76 may reproduce poorly.] (Author/MF)

1970

ED037818