Describes an introductory psychology course using a traditional text and study guide as well as a novel about cults. One objective was that students be able to make informed decisions about cults. (CK)

Lists 16 questions for eliciting student writing. (JT)

Presents a hypothetical article intended to help library school students learn the skills necessary in evaluating the research they read in the professional literature. It contains a variety of commonly committed blunders which students should recognize. (FM)

Ideas for establishing a mathematical menagerie with puppets to facilitate mathematics instruction in the elementary school. (CM)

Recommends a process by which students learn to revise their own papers using a series of guidelines and questions. (TJ)

Production keyboarding is the process of completing a series of keyboarding and nonkeyboarding activities to produce final copy. It is an essential element in the training of business and office education students. This article provides a model in the form of a production process technique sheet. (JOW)

This student workbook aims to prepare deaf high school students for work by assisting them in the job search process. The book begins with an evaluation of the many reasons why people work, the steps involved in searching for a job, and a self-administered rating scale for job search readiness. A chapter on personalizing the job search focuses on…

This packet is the second of five developed as a set of self-appraisal instruments with which teachers (and others) can systematically examine their instruction methods in communication skills. The packet contains forms for teachers, students, administrators, and parents addressing two levels of specificity: responses to the overall communication…

This module is one of a set of seven prepared in conjunction with the Title I "Project to Train Volunteer Leaders to Conduct Consumer Education Courses." It is designed to serve as a volunteer leader guide in the development of leadership and teaching skills. Part 1 contains the text of "Leadership and Teaching Skills." Topics include the…

This packet is the last of five developed as a set of self-appraisal instruments with which teachers (and others) can systematically examine their instruction methods in communication skills. The packet contains forms for teachers, students, administrators, and parents, addressing two levels of specificity: responses to the overall communication…

This document contains two guidebooks--a workbook for students and a handbook for teachers. Class activities are designed for English-as-a-Second Language (ESL) students at level 1B of the Washington State Core Competencies. Some activities may be appropriate for level 1A and/or level 2 students too. Materials are based on experience and are…

This textbook may be used as a supplementary text in history and English classes, or as an independent text. The selections, taken from a wide variety of sources, constitute a body of patriotic literature that will not fail to appeal to boys and girls to whom love of country, in these stirring times, is becoming a very real thing. The study helps…

This textbook is a course in mental arithmetic that is essentially based on the object-lesson plan. It is believed that the pupil in the primary school can more readily acquire a familiarity with numbers from the use of objects and pictures than from an uninterrupted drill on the tables. It also includes suggestions for teachers how to use the…

This textbook is a reader intended to develop children's taste for classic, diverse works. In addition to providing a definite and flexible method for teaching beginners to read, effort has been made to include only material that may justly be called classic and that have held up under repeated school use. Care has also been taken to present a…

This textbook is a reader intended to develop children's taste for classic, diverse works. In addition to providing a definite and flexible method for teaching beginners to read, effort has been made to include only material that may justly be called classic and that have held up under repeated school use. Care has also been taken to present a…