This paper describes a practical experience of adapting the teaching of a course in Computer Technology (CT) to the new demands of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). CT is a core course taught in the first year of the degree program Technical Engineering in Management Computing in the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of A…

The paper examines the implementation of an external written curriculum in the classroom. The study is based on observation of and interviews with 26 Israeli Bible teachers who followed a formal curriculum and used a teachers' guide. The study identified three types of curriculum narrative: the frame narrative, the task narrative, and the…

Finding few resources on how to teach a yearbook class, high school teacher Christina M. Vettraino set out to create her own. She offers a detailed, classroom-tested approach to producing an award-winning yearbook. Students on the staff and in the yearbook class learn the purpose and the concept of a unifying theme, graphic design, writing, and…

One of a series of modules for possible use as semester or part of semester course discusses problems in a complex public and private transportation system, and encourages proposed solutions. By means of three columns headed: Understandings; Suggested Pupil and Teacher Activities; Source, each page deals with one problem. A Method of Survey…

AN INSTRUCTIONAL GUIDE WHICH DEVELOPS THE SKILL NEEDED TO ACQUIRE IDEAS AND TO COMMUNICATE THEM CLEARLY AND EFFECTIVELY IN ACCEPTABLE WRITTEN ENGLISH IS PRESENTED. AN OUTLINE OF THE COURSE INCLUDES WRITING LESSONS IN DESCRIPTION, REPORTING, EXTENDED DEFINITON, CLASSIFICATION AND DIVISION, COMPARISON AND CONTRAST, INTERPRETING EXPERIENCE OR THE…

A TEACHING GUIDE FOR THE GIFTED STUDENT OF EUROPEAN HISTORY IS PRESENTED. IT INCLUDES COURSE RULES, UNIT AND TIME PLAN, UNITS OF STUDY AND TEXTBOOK ASSIGNMENTS, VISUAL AIDS, GENERAL REFERENCES, BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SPECIALIZED ACCOUNTS, AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HISTORICAL FACTION. THE UNIT PLANS ARE DIVIDED INTO TWO SEMESTERS' WORK. THE FIRST SEMESTER…

A course of study, developed by teachers to make home and family education more meaningful and interesting to students, and focusing on privileges, responsibilities and characteristics of an effective babysitter, is presented. Contents include: the job; child development and guidance; accident prevention; and community and parental responsibility…

Gives a typology of various possible approaches to grammar teaching, involving grammars for learning, for skill acquisition, and those which look at course organization, media and teaching aids. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Author recommends a daily progress sheet and a research diary as organizing aids for social studies. (GB)

From a series on teaching Afro-American history and culture in the elementary school.

This guide is addressed to teachers who develop information retrieval skills in users of scientific and technical information--undergraduate and graduate students, scientists, and technologists. It is intended to have particular application in developing countries. The teacher is likely to need expertise in library and information science,…

THE COURSE IS INTENDED TO GO BEYOND THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE ADVANCED PLACEMENT PROGRAM IN MATHEMATICS AS DESIGNED BY THE COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAMINATION BOARD. THE ADVANCED PLACEMENT PROGRAM CONSISTS OF A 1-YEAR COURSE COMBINING ANALYTIC GEOMETRY AND CALCULUS. PRESUPPOSED HERE ARE--A SEMESTER COURSE IN ANALYTIC GEOMETRY AND A THOROUGH KNOWLEDGE OF…

A two-semester terminal course in French, based on a text entitled "Cours Elementaire" by Dale and Dale, is articulated in this curriculum guide. The purpose of the course, which is designed for students who are not interested in completing a three- or four-year program, course content, general plan, and teaching strategies are examined. A plan…

From a series on teaching Afro-American history and culture in the elementary school.

From a series on teaching Afro-American history and culture in the elementary school.