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A new model for in-service and preservice teacher training programs has been developed. The Skill Development in Teaching (SKIT) was suggested by recent research combining two teacher training techniques developed in the past decade, Interaction Analysis and Microteaching. Some educators who have worked with both Interaction Analysis and Microteaching have felt that they are compatible and even complementary. The proposed SKIT model is an attempt at combining significant aspects of the two techniques in a model for maximally effective skill training programs. Skill sessions, which emphasize various teaching behaviors to be practiced, are an integral part of the SKIT program: Orientation Practice helps teachers learn how to prepare their students for subsequent activity; acceptance of student feeling as well as student ideas is another skill that is taught; also, through skill sessions, teachers are taught question skills which involve answering cognitive, covergent, divergent, and evaluative questions. (Author/JB)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert