Developed for a high school unit on the age of Milton, this guide is designed to examine the dominant literary modes of thought expressed in Spenser's "The Faerie Queene," Milton's "Comus,""Paradise Lost," and "Paradise Regained," and John Donne's metaphysical poetry. Performance objectives are listed along…

The course outline has been prepared as a guide to help the students gain mastery in the proper brush techniques required for efficiency in brush lettering. The student is first given an orientation to the materials and equipment used, and the preparation of tempera paints for brush lettering. After this introduction, the student is guided through…

The course outline is prepared as a guide for the 10th grade student in Commercial Cooking and Baking or Food Management Production and Service. The course introduces the student to effective production of high quality foods and develops an understanding of high standards in quality food service. Totaling 90 hours of instruction, nine blocks of…

The intent of this field tested instructional package is to acquaint the student with materials used by industry for the production of goods and services. Defining behavioral objectives, the course description includes a media section, suggested classroom activities, and sample student evaluation forms, as well as the basic information section. It…

Designed to develop selected skills common to many health occupations, the course includes fundamental and manipulative skills such as those required of the nurses aide. There are no prerequisites, and the 45-hour course is planned to provide the student with selected theoretical knowledge correlated with laboratory periods of applied practice in…

Presented is a project that developed a competency-based clinical chemistry course for associate degree medical laboratory technicians (MLT) in a medical technology (MT) baccalaureate program. Content of the course was based upon competencies expected of medical technologists at career-entry as defined in the statements adopted in 1976 by the…

Three papers presented at a teacher education conference on the development of common core curriculum for vocational teacher education are contained in this booklet. The titles and authors are as follow: "A Model Methods Course for Agricultural Education," by L. H. Newcomb; "Preparing Teachers to Develop Courses of Study in Vocational…

This volume is a report of the development of the first course in a two-semester sequence in Electronic Communications, for a new degree program in Electric Engineering Technology at Valencia Community College, Orlando, Florida. Evolution of the program is described with comments relating the philosophy and importance of a communications sequence.…

With the growing interest in oral history, this booklet provides guidelines for the development of oral history projects at the secondary level. There are various options for establishing oral history in the school program including an elective semester course, an independent study project, a minicourse, a cocurricular history club project, or an…

This report is in four sections. The first describes the needs for ethnic studies, their role, how they can best be effected, and the philosophy behind them. The interdisciplinary nature of ethnic studies is noted: that they must draw on many disciplines within the social sciences and humanities. And as with all inter- interdisciplinary programs,…

This document is a collection of course outlines, syllabi, and test materials designed for several high school level and lower division mathematics courses taught in an auto-tutorial learning laboratory at Skagit Valley College (Washington). The courses included are: Pre-Algebra, Basic Algebra, Plan Geometry, Intermediate Algebra, Probability and…

In the first part of this document, teachers are urged to include United States' maritime history in planning social studies courses, units, and lessons. After a rationale for teaching the study of the sea, ways in which this topic can be used as content are briefly discussed. For example, units can be developed around the ship building industry,…

This document presents a comprehensive plan for future growth in instructional computing in the Washington community colleges. Two chapters define the curriculum objectives and content recommended for instructional courses in the community colleges which require access to computing facilities. The courses described include data processing…

The curriculum guide is designed to provide students with realistic training in graphic communications theory and practice within the secondary educational framework and to prepare them for entry into an occupation or continuing postsecondary education. The program modules outlined in the guide have been grouped into four areas: printing,…

This course is designed to teach basic Russian terminology and structure which will allow the student, with the help of a good dictionary, to translate scientific material. Before taking the course, the student should control the Russian sound system and should be thoroughly familiar with the Cyrillic alphabet. This curriculum guide includes a…