The cultural element has traditionally been incorporated into language study in a variety of ways. Part one of this section describes one method. At the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, culture is taught as part of a required four-year sequence of courses entitled "Liberal Education Seminars" which introduce the student to cultural environment…

Developed by experienced migrant education teachers incorporating Sight and Sound Program concepts, this volume presents predrafted individual short-term Plan/Records for secondary level chemistry, biology, and physics, plus step-by-step directions for their use by Oregon resource teachers, classroom teachers, and aides. The approach assumes that…

This instructor's guide accompanies the student booklet/unit on choosing an occupation in the Employability Skills Series. (The student booklet is available separately as CE 031 155.) It first discusses the Employability Skills Series. A section administering the unit details purpose of the unit and major concepts to be developed, lists student…

Suggesting that outdoor activities can be positive learning experiences, lesson plans and activities were designed to demonstrate that the outdoors is an interdisciplinary classroom, to be used on virtually any school site, and to teach subject matter taught as part of the standard curriculum. Seventeen interdisciplinary ideas with correlated…

The document describes social studies and history courses offered in the junior high and senior high schools of Henry County, Tennessee. The syllabi were developed as part of a Teacher's Corps Demonstration Project. The overall objectives of the syllabi are to inform students and parents of the minimum competencies expected in social studies and…

This instructional guide is designed to provide work experience education coordinators with a series of topical items which can be incorporated into the related instruction portion of a high school student's work experience education program. The activities in this instructional guide represent a common core of concepts and understandings…

Designed to be used as part of a comprehensive social studies program on Mexican culture, this two-volume manual, written in Spanish, offers an instructional package on Mexican culture, stressing an art-architecture perspective, which can be used at the secondary, college and adult levels. The teacher's guide, Volume I, includes a discussion of a…

These Project TEAMS (Techniques and Education for Achieving Management Skills) instructional materials consist of four units for use in teaching management skills. Unit 1 contains materials designed to help managers increase their management skills relating to time management, stress management, and personnel management. Topics covered in the…

The predrafted Oregon Individual Short-Term Plan/Records on oral language (grades 1-3), covering skills such as sound discrimination, listening comprehension, critical listening, basic language patterns, oral expression, and vocabulary development, were designed for migrant children who attend a school for only 2 to 6 weeks. Migrant education…

Designed to meet Illinois state law requirements for consumer education to be taught before graduation from high school, this guide outlines the major topics to be included in the mandatory nine weeks of consumer education. Because the law neither stipulates a specific grade level for this material, nor requires its introduction as a separate…

Second language learning today requires new materials. One type of learning unit suggested would have a simple format, limited scope and objectives, and diversity of content, form, learning strategies and activities. In spite of the problems involved in the production of this format, such units might be worked out in teacher-training programs, by…

This competency-based preservice home economics teacher education module on evaluating occupational programs is the fourth in a set of four core modules on establishing occupational programs. (This set is part of a larger series of sixty-seven modules on the Management Approach to Teaching Consumer and Homemaking Education [MATCHE]--see CE 019…

Designed to aid the job hunter in making career decisions, this workshop guide is divided into two parts. In part 1, "You Can Get There from Here," five of the fourteen section titles are "You Live Where You Work,""You Are What You Do,""You Are a Success,""What Do You Look for in a Job," and "Chart Your Career." The following are content examples…

One in a series designed to assist Arizona elementary and junior high school teachers in developing children's traffic safety skills, this curriculum guide contains ten lessons on bicycles for use in grade 2. Introductory information provided for the teacher includes basic highway safety concepts, stressing communication methods for highway users,…

Greater emphasis is placed upon communication in today's foreign language classroom. Various definitions of communicative competence are considered; basically, it is the ability to understand and make oneself understood in real-life situations. In teaching for communicative competence, meaning (what is being said) becomes the focal point of…