The fifth of seven modules designed for teachers, supervisors, and other professionals working with young (birth to age 3) handicapped children presents resources for program planning and curriculum selection. Program considerations and decisions are introduced, and distinctions between the terms "program" and "curriculum" are set forth. The bulk…

The paper describes and illustrates the utility of the Content-Based Group-Assessment Model for developing programs of continuing professional education. A recent study of physical educators is used to demonstrate the potential utility of the model in developing curricular programs. (Author/AJ)

Article described a project designed to adapt contract teaching on a multi-level basis to the environment of the smaller high school. (Author/RK)

Two individually-adaptive mathematics courses for urban high school youth were developed by a Commonwealth CAI Consortium to help satisfy the ninth grade requirement for general mathematics and algebra in Pennsylvania. A description of the courses and of the computer system, and an analysis of the effectiveness of the CAI-mediated mathematics…

This career education consultant package, designed for use with staff at the intermediate grade level, is one of a set of six packages of consultants' materials developed to serve as a guide for consulting staff presenting career education workshops in the following areas: Conselor's, primary K-3, intermediate, junior and senior high, and…

This career education consultant package for use with school administrators is one of a set of six packages of consultants' materials developed to serve as a guide for consulting staff presenting career education workshops in the following areas: Counselors, primary K-3, junior and senior high, intermediate, and administrators. (The "Career…

This manual presents a Task Analysis Process (TAP) designed to provide its users with a method to systematically analyze occupations in terms of tasks and procedural techniques for organizing them and related knowledges into vocational education program curricula. The process is intended for use by secondary and postsecondary schools for designing…

Presented is a professional reference book on change, an aid to mathematics educators in implementing the recommendations found in the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' (NCTM's) publication, "An Agenda for Action: Recommendations for School Mathematics of the 1980's." The text is divided into three major parts that discuss different…

Suggestions are offered to help schools develop health education programs that will meet individual and community health needs and concerns. An outline is provided for designing a curriculum in elementary and secondary schools that will cover the topics of physical and mental health, attitudes and responsibilities that will promote safety, and…

This packet of questionnaires and guides is designed to garner information about public opinion concerning policy for guiding the National Institute of Education's (NIE) curriculum activities. The following questions are focused on: (1) How should NIE define "curriculum"? (2) Should NIE help develop new curricula? (3) Should NIE evaluate…

Presented is a dissertation that demonstrates the importance of health education in the satisfactory accomplishment of the tasks of an Environmental Health Officer (EHO) or others similarly engaged in the same field. The rationale supporting the argument for the inclusion of a course of health education in the training program of environmentally…

DURING A 3-MONTH PERIOD (MARCH TO JUNE 1963) A GROUP OF SCHOLARS MET IN WEEKLY SESSIONS TO DISCUSS AND PLAN THE GENERAL STRUCTURE OF THE CURRICULUM REFORM PROGRAM AND THE SPECIFIC UNITS THAT MIGHT BECOME PARTS OF AN OVERALL DESIGN. THE COMMITTEE'S WORK DIVIDED ITSELF INTO FOUR CATEGORIES (1) THE CREATION OF BASIC PRINCIPLES DRAWN FROM THE SOCIAL…

This description of the Erie Basic Educational Skills (BES) Program provides examples of the achievements made by the Erie Public Schools and Head Start toward BES and Responsive Educational Program goals. Staff positions, staff responsibilities, the curriculum, and programs initiated and carried out in the Erie Public Schools are described. The…

A project to design a model curriculum development guide for a broadly transferable Associate Degree program in Human Services for drug abuse workers was initiated at Miami-Dade Community College (Florida). The curriculum was intended for implementation through a national consortium of community colleges. Central to the program, which would…

This document is one in a set of four documents which present a personnel development program aimed at improving the competence of instructional leaders in planning and implementing curricula in generic work skills, especially in vocational education. (Generic work skills are defined as those skills that facilitate the operation of goal-oriented…