Presents the syllabus of an introductory U.S. government course. The course stresses alternative views on government including multiculturalism, grass-roots politics, social issues, class, race, and gender. Specifically, seeks to inculcate critical thinking and a global awareness. Includes a course outline, discussion of grading policies, and list…

Presents seven exemplar lessons on Native American cultures from a spiral curriculum on United States history. Includes lessons from the kindergarten, middle school, and secondary levels. Describes teacher rationale statements and a grading rubric for middle school essays. (CFR)

This package consists of course syllabi, an instructor's handbook, and a student laboratory manual for a 2-year vocational training program to prepare students for entry-level employment as tool and die makers. The program was developed through a modification of the DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) technique. The course syllabi volume begins with…

This comprehensive curriculum guide was developed to enable business education teachers and administrators in Connecticut to update and upgrade their curricula, with emphasis on and information about cross credits, technology preparation (Tech Prep 2 + 2), interdisciplinary teaching, and global economics interdependence study. Preliminary…

These two manuals provide teacher and student materials for a 175-hour trade and industrial program for students in grades 10-12, composed of six 30-hour courses designed to provide students with minimum competencies for the construction industry. The curriculum guide is organized in eight sections. The first section describes how to use the…

This curriculum outline provides secondary and postsecondary instructors with detailed information on student learning outcomes for completion of the general mechanics program requirements. A program overview discusses the aims of education; secondary school philosophy; and career preparation programs and their goals, organization, and evaluation.…

This curriculum guide is intended to serve as a model for the educational component of a Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) reemployment training program for dislocated workers. The first section consists of a profile of the Dislocated Worker Project curriculum and an institutional data sheet. Included in the next section are an introduction to…

This document contains three units of a course on wall framing to be used as part of a building trades program. Each unit consists, first, of an informational lesson, with complete lesson plan for the teacher's use. Included in each lesson plan are the lesson aids; lists of teaching aids, materials, references, and prerequisites for students;…

This manual provides curriculum materials for implementing a career exploration class in construction occupations within a Practical Arts Education program for middle/junior high school students. Introductory materials include the program master sequence, a list of construction occupations, and an overview of the competency-based instructional…

This manual provides curriculum materials for implementing a career exploration class in communication and media occupations within a Practical Arts Education program for middle/junior high school students. Introductory materials include the program master sequence, a list of communication and media occupations, and an overview of the…

This manual provides curriculum materials for implementing a career exploration class in environmental control occupations within a Practical Arts Education program for middle/junior high school students. Introductory materials include the program master sequence, a list of environmental control occupations, an overview of the competency-based…

The 12 competency-based instructional units in Level I of the four-level Electricity/Electronics Curriculum series are designed to help the instructor in planning, organizing, and presenting introductory electricity/electronics materials. Nine-week and 18-week unit outlines are provided for grades 7 and 8. The instructional units are generally…

This eighth in a series of eleven learning modules on program planning, development, and evaluation is designed to assist secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers in preparing and updating vocational education courses of study. (A course of study describes who is to be taught, what is to be taught, how much time will be allotted to each…

This curriculum guide is designed to offer guidelines along with supporting resources and teaching ideas from which the local postsecondary instructor can extract a machine shop curriculum that meets local needs. Following an outline of the philosophy and goals underlying state and local vocational education programs in Georgia, the purpose and…

A project was undertaken to develop an experimental program to help young people acquire a generalized strategy for learning after they leave school. Other objectives of the program were to help teachers improve their understanding and use of various learning strategies, to develop an induction course for those purposes (entitled the "How do…