Reviewing recent court decisions on home schooling, the author points out that it should reflect public school classroom activities. (MD)

This curriculum was designed to provide teachers of psychology in secondary schools with information concerning teaching about child maltreatment. The materials contain information about child abuse and neglect that they can incorporate into their teaching. The curriculum contains a procedural outline that includes five lesson plans targeting the…

This document is the first volume of the Louisiana curriculum guide for teaching a one-semester course in child and adolescent development in grades 10-12. The first of the guide's two major units, entitled "Growth and Development of the Adolescent," focuses on many of the physical, emotional, intellectual, and social experiences of the…

This document is the second volume of the Louisiana curriculum guide for teaching a one-semester course in child and adolescent development in grades 10-12. This volume presents basic information regarding the development of children from infancy through school age, including prenatal development. Many lessons of the volume's five major units also…

Consisting of three units, the course model aims to prepare students to address the problem of abuse and/or neglect in the Mexican American community. Unit one focuses on the two major parts of the informal helping system in the Mexican American community, the barrio and the family. Unit two concentrates on the traditional child welfare system and…

The sixth in a series of federally supported modules for training paraprofessional school personnel who work with students with disabilities, this module presents information on working with individuals who are medically fragile or have physical disabilities. Both a facilitator's edition and a student's edition are provided. Chapter 1 examines the…