Twenty sample career education implementation plans for grades 4-6 are included in this document. Goals, objectives, activities, and potential resources are identified for the following six areas: personal development, career and occupational awareness, economic understanding, citizenship, family life, and human relations. The career education…

This document contains Modules 3, 4, and 5 of a series of self-instructional learning modules designed to familiarize users with Oregon minimum standards for public schools. All three modules focus on how to select and write educational goals as specified by the 1976 Oregon minimum standards for public schools, with Module 3 focusing on district…

Intended for planners of adult education curriculums, this literature review explains the concepts involved in designing an adult education program, provides information about the roles of the people involved in the adult education process, cites some program planning models, and applies the program planning principles to an Adult Basic Education…

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS COMPARATIVE STUDY WAS TO EVALUATE THE RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF TENNESSEE VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE PROGRAMS IN FOUR CATEGORIES -- (1) PILOT SCHOOLS, (2) LIKE-PILOT SCHOOLS OR SCHOOLS RESEMBLING PILOT SCHOOLS, (3) STUDENT TEACHING CENTERS, AND (4) NEGRO SCHOOLS. THE RANDOM SAMPLE INCLUDED 800 STUDENTS FROM 20 SCHOOLS DIVIDED…

THE FIRST PART OF THIS DOCUMENT, RELATIVE TO GUIDELINES FOR ORGANIZING LOCAL ADVISORY GROUPS FOR ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAMS INVOLVING MEXICAN AMERICANS IN THE SOUTHWEST, SETS FORTH THE OBJECTIVES, COMPOSITIONS, AND OPERATIONS OF LOCAL ADVISORY COMMITTEES, INDICATES STEPS IN CONDUCTING INITIAL MEETINGS EITHER WITHOUT A CURRENT PROJECT OR AFTER A…

This paper describes and evaluates a citizenship education project for elementary and secondary schools. The specific purpose of the project was to develop and test a model to improve political knowledge and attitudes of students by systematically infusing political/citizenship education into existing elementary and secondary social studies…

A description and discussion of the design, development, implementation, evaluation and effects of the Individualized Early Learning Program (IELP) are presented in this paper. Implemented in Project Follow Through and other school settings, the IELP gives priority to teaching basic skills and concepts needed for school performance to children in…

This manual is designed to assist in the development of a criminal justice agency training program. The first chapter is a discussion of various learning principles (motivation, practice, reinforcement, and learning transfer) and how they may help the trainer select instructional strategies later in the process. Administration, trainer, and…

Developed as part of a New Hampshire project entitled "Curriculum Activity Planning for Schools," this guide provides an overview to creating a format and the appropriate components for a competency-based vocational secondary school curriculum. First, the curriculum components are identified, and directions are provided for their…

A task force was created in November of 1978 to assess the state of foreign language and international studies in Illinois public schools. This report begins with an overview of the current decline in foreign language enrollments and offerings. The need to foster foreign language study is discussed, both for its special place in intellectual…

The workbook briefly outlines curriculum development with an emphasis on Native American curriculum materials. Written in conversational style, it contains very basic information and examples regarding: the scope, sequence, and definition of curriculum; how curriculum materials get into the educational system; and a 5-step curriculum development…

THIS ESSAY DEALS MAINLY WITH THE DEVELOPMENT AND THE POTENTIAL OF CONTINUING HIGHER EDUCATION IN FRANCE. THE BASIC TYPES OF ADULT EDUCATION ARE DISTINGUISHED, AND EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES, ADULT CHARACTERISTICS, AND VARIOUS LEARNING PROBLEMS OF ADULTS ARE DISCUSSED. EFFORTS BY THE CENTRE UNIVERSITAIRE DE COOPERATION ECONOMIQUE ET SOCIALE TO PROMOTE…

This volume outlines a system for effective planning in higher education. The system integrates management and program planning, physical plant planning, and financial planning into a single process designed to support institutional management and decision making at all administrative levels. Because successful planning is a process, procedures…

The seminar objectives were to (1) become further acquainted with the report of the President's Panel of Consultants on Vocational Education, (2) become familiar ith promising developments and innovations in agricultural education, (3) crystallize thinking concerning new directions and orientations for vocational agriculture, (4) examine…

Part of a report of seminar proceedings, these papers on community development in developing nations deal largely with conditions, requirements, and effective principles of rural extension; the government system of community development village workers in outlying regions of Thailand; the methods, organization, accomplishments, and prospects of…