Phase elective courses in English & reading : an analytical study

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Childress, Patricia V.
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1977
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The trend in education in the nation's high schools is ever changing, The most prominent change today, however, is directed toward phase-elective programming. Many educators feel this system allows the student greater freedom of selection of his own courses and thus engenders inthe student a greater interest in education which results in higher levels of success for more pupils.The success of this system depends upon schools having a full understanding of how phase elective functions, Once program developers acquire this understanding, they must formulate a pragmatic program which meets the needs of the students within their system and explains the phase-elective program understandably to those students and their parents. Finally full teacher outlines for each course must be prepared and adhered to so as to insure the success of the program.Thus the implementation of a phase-elective program is a three-step process. It requires first that the developers understand the concept of phase elective, second that students and parents understand their options within the program, and third that teachers understand and strictly follow their program designs, Only when phase-elective programs rigidly follow these three steps can success be achieved.

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