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Smith, Gary R. | 2 |
Curran, Faye, Comp. | 1 |
Floor, Lucretia J. | 1 |
Johnson, Jacquelyn | 1 |
Miller, Barbara | 1 |
Svicarovich, John, Ed. | 1 |
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Floor, Lucretia J. – 1975
This unit is concerned with problems and strategies involved in achieving systemwide improvements within a school district rather than having such improvements occur only in a fraction of classrooms or schools. A person who completes this unit should be able to accomplish the following objectives: define diffusion within a school system and…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adoption (Ideas), Diffusion, Educational Change
Center for New Schools, Inc., Chicago, IL. – 1973
This research guide is designed to help people who are working on the development of new educational programs for public schools. By outlining some of the major questions and problems that relate to research of new programs and by suggesting some practical steps, this guide attempts to aid planning groups in the use of research techniques.…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Planning, Educational Programs, Educational Research
Otero, George G. – 1975
This experimental unit on death employs a cross-cultural comparison of death and burial customs to increase student understanding of the values and reasons behind events surrounding the end of the life cycle. Nine activities are presented in which students collect, label, analyze, and generalize about the relationship of death customs to the…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Beliefs, Class Activities, Comparative Analysis
Denver Univ., CO. Center for Teaching International Relations. – 1976
Supplementary teaching activities at the junior- and senior-high school level on issues and topics involving food are provided. Topics include food production and distribution, nutrition, food shortages, food habits, and meal planning. Students are encouraged to develop perspective on global food concerns as well as understand their own family…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Course Content, Experimental Programs, Food
Denver Univ., CO. Center for Teaching International Relations. – 1976
Supplementary teaching activities at the junior- and senior-high school level on issues and topics involving population factors are provided. Topics include population growth, demography, graphing, population distribution, and population control. Community and national census factors as well as world population are studied. Students are helped to…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Course Content, Demography, Experimental Programs
Otero, George G. – 1975
This unit examines four topic areas related to police: rules and enforcement, police discretion, variety of police tasks, and police differences among societies as products of certain social pressures. High-school students learn about the police as an institution that responds to social and historical pressures. Students study police systems in…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Curriculum
Curran, Faye, Comp. – 1976
This document is divided into three sections: descriptions of program models, samples of practical materials, and reports of research. Included are papers dealing with such topics as individualized reading diagnosis and instruction on the community college level, junior college reading programs for training teacher aides, an instructional team…
Descriptors: College Programs, Community Colleges, Educational Innovation, Experimental Programs
Smith, Gary R. – 1975
Showing a variety of learned behavior about aging, activities in this unit are designed to help high-school students become aware that their views (preconceptions) on aging are not universally held. Objectives of the unit include achievement of global perspective on aging and its problems, understanding of the effects of population growth and…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitudes, Class Activities, Comparative Analysis
Otero, George G. – 1975
In this unit, high-school students identify and evaluate their own images of the Arabs and begin to develop more accurate perceptions of the Arabs through data analysis. Activities emphasize social studies skills, such as mapmaking and reading, use of time lines and the concept of chronology, and data collection and analysis. Students compare…
Descriptors: Arabs, Attitude Change, Class Activities, Comparative Analysis
Otero, George G. – 1975
Sixteen activities on issues and topics related to work, time, and leisure are presented. High-school students choose specific activities which they will work on during a period of several days. Most activities take the students out of the classroom and involve a study of family and community components of work and leisure. Some are individual…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Exploration, Class Activities, Decision Making
Smith, Gary R. – 1975
This instructional unit offers high-school students experiences in learning about how human beings communicate and fail to communicate. It is based on the assumption that personal and cultural differences create differing "perceptual sets." Seventeen learning activities are grouped into four units: (1) Communication Processes and "Meaning-Making,"…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Communication Problems, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comparative Analysis
Svicarovich, John, Ed. – 1974
The manual describes an offcampus intern program for 12th-grade students in political science. Description of the project, Government Responsibility and Student Participation (GRASP), is divided into six chapters. Chapter I, Deciding Whether to Adopt the Model, identifies the need for an intern course and projects presumed student accomplishments…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Objectives, Evaluation, Experimental Programs
Miller, Barbara; Johnson, Jacquelyn – 1976
This unit explores the roles of women today and the possible effects of social, political, and economic equality for women on students' personal lives, the nation, and the world. Thirteen activities are designed to help secondary students develop an understanding of the status of women in U.S. society as compared with other cultures. These…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Employed Women