This book is a day-by-day record of how and why four- and five-year olds learn, described by a teacher who uses many of the Montessori materials, and emphasizes the discipline and attraction to learning that come from within. The first chapter relates the teacher's theories on education, while the remaining five chapters consist of diary entries…

This document provides teaching guidelines and student material for a unit intended for use in high school business, consumer, or career education programs. The objective is to teach students to analyze job application forms in terms of their life situations. A prerequisite is the possession of some business letter writing skills. The document is…

An instructor's manual on education and jobs is provided in this set of prevocational education materials which focuses on the vocational area of the world of work. (This set of materials is one of ninety-two prevocational education sets arranged around a cluster of seven vocational offerings: agriculture,home economics, distributive education,…

This instructor's guide is intended to assist in making appropriate decisions about teaching and to help plan, present, evaluate, and expand curriculum materials for a course in career awareness, decision-making, and job-seeking skills. Instructional objectives are provided within six instructional areas: (1) orientation, (2) self-awareness, (3)…

Designed for use by professional staff development personnel with pre-service and inservice educational personnel, this training manual was developed to train personnel to implement elementary school career education programs. This manual is divided into twelve chapters. The first chapter provides an overview of the Project FOCUS Manual. The…

Many students, especially nontraditional ones, are not ready for conventional instruction in composition because their problems with the medium overwhelm the content of their writing. There are two different needs for composition students: composing (content) and editing (correctness), which need to be taught in a two-step process. Composing can…

This paper argues that it is important to provide children with complementary activities in a horizontal arrangement in order to promote acceleration of vertical levels of thinking. A brief review of literature on the relationship between experience and logical thinking is presented and the definition and function of transfer are discussed.…

Content area teachers at the secondary level should teach students specific techniques for handling the reading materials in their disciplines. This paper points out the need for administrators to overcome attitudinal barriers of content teachers with regard to teaching reading skills and shows how compulsory attendance laws have led to the…

Radio commercials, used as supplementary materials in the English as a second language class, have the following advantages: (1) they correspond closely to everyday spoken English; (2) they are clear; (3) they are short enough to sustain student interest; (4) the many redundancies in the message enable even the slower student to understand; (5)…

Presented in this document is a report of an innovative approach to social studies through the use of newspapers in the classrooms in Canada. Topic Today is a one-page newspaper of current affairs geared to grades 6 through 8, but applicable to secondary grades, developed to make available resources of current affairs found in regular newspapers…

One in a series of consumer education materials for teenagers, this document focuses on banking and banking services. The series is based on the philosophy that teens need the training and guidance to develop the skills needed to become competent consumers. Developed for 4-H Club members, the material is designed to acquaint students with the…

In the development of the guide, attention was centered on fostering the behavioral objectives delineated for the generally related study aspect of Industrial Cooperative Training (ICT). It has been generally accepted by coordinators and supervisors of ICT programs in Virginia that approximately half of the class time should be devoted to teaching…

That being a self involves being different is the unique focus of the teacher's guide. The learning experiences, developed for use at the grade 1 level, are designed to make each student aware of himself through a variety of activities that point out what is uniquely his: his physical makeup, his family, his friends, his interests, and his school.…

The teaching guide, part of a series of four, consists of learning experiences for use at the levels of grades 3 and 4 in mathematics. It is concerned with simple measurements of liquid and solid volumes. The intent is to help students develop basic volume measurement skills and learn how adults use similar skills at work. Each set of learning…

The purpose of the teacher's guide is to acquaint students at the eighth grade level with occupations in the earth sciences. By identifying earth science and exploring geology, oceanography, and meteorology, students may become aware of the knowledge and skills required of workers in these occupations. Students participate in simulated work…