What role can district visual art administrators play in articulating an educationally valuable conception of creativity and in establishing a culture that targets creativity as an educational goal? How can art administrators help teachers implement creativity goals? How can they communicate creativity's importance to principals, parents, and…

The guide is intended for preservice and inservice teachers on all levels as they prepare and implement behavioral objectives and learning packages. Behavioral objectives are statements which describe what students will be able to do after completing a prescribed unit of instruction. Learning activity packages are self-instructional and self-paced…

Designed to provide K-12 teachers in Oregon with a scope and sequence, a listing of resources, and a large collection of ready-to-use activities for teaching computer literacy, this handbook is divided into nine sections which contain computer literacy instruction keyed to behavioral objectives. Topics covered include: (1) the history of…

This facilitator's module, part of the staff training for the "Rural America Series," presents the means for setting the keystone of successful program development, i.e., the establishment of appropriate, concrete, and measurable objectives. A distinction is made between behavioral (student) objectives and program objectives, and…

This guide is the staff development training manual of a series designed to provide school planners and guidance personnel with a model for a comprehensive developmental guidance program which can be adapted, adopted or used to create new programs. The materials focus on program planning, staff development, guidance curriculum, and activity guides…

A description of an inservice teacher education learning module is provided. The module focuses on systematic principles of behavior modification, and emphasizes the procedures underlying effective social development and the use of positive motivational methods with children and young adults. Information is provided on the purposes and content of…

Instruction can be fitted to the needs of individual students without great cost.

This study examined whether selected protocol materials in classroom management, used in inservice courses, would bring about long-term significant changes in teachers' classroom performance. Fifteen teachers participated in the study by taking an inservice course on classroom management and discipline. Two modules of classroom management…

The final report on the third year of a 5 year program to investigate performance based certification procedures for special education teachers and to assess teacher competency is presented. Nineteen competency areas were identified and modules to train teachers in each of the competencies were developed. A study of 56 special education teachers…

This teacher guide for the astronomy unit of an outdoor education program consists of a series of performance objectives, intended to provide interesting, hands-on activities, involving interdisciplinary skills, that augment commitments of the mathematics, sciences, and social studies program of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools.…

This module is intended to help prospective school counselors continue to understand their own self/career paths and begin to explore the dimensions and components of self/career development for learners in kindergarten through grade 12 (K-12). Unit 1, "Image Recall: Assessing One's Own Self/Career Development," briefly reviews career development…

Eight modules are presented for instruction of teachers of intellectually gifted students. Modules include statements of objectives and subobjectives, as well as assignments of activities to demonstrate mastery of the basic materials. Modules address the following topics (sample subtopics in parentheses): population (rationale for units,…

The manual presents results and findings of a statewide motor development inservice training project for teachers of exceptional children and provides training modules from the project. Section 1 gives an overview of the structure, philosophy, and procedures of the project. The evaluation plan of the program is described, and the development of…

These specifications are intended to provide interested educators with a set of guidelines for the development of competency-based instructional modules. In the first of two chapters "essential" definitions and module components are presented. "Module, competency statement, and general, terminal, and enabling objectives" are defined. Seven major…

This instructional package contains a facilitator's guide, eight learning modules, and 39 handouts for teachers and counselors to use in a program to help adolescents increase their options through life/work planning. Outlined in the facilitator's guide are the nature and importance of life planning; the content, organization, and level of…