This document reports the proceedings of a conference and workshop at the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Nursing on behavioral objectives. Presentations include: the management of learning; behavioral objectives and the teaching/learning process in nursing education; curriculum development; curriculum development in the SUNYAB…

This book of readings in social studies makes available several recent developments in this discipline and attempts to summarize some of the projects, monographs, and special programs being conducted at several major curriculum centers. Five facets of the new social studies are examined here. Part One is an overview of the nature and direction of…

The concept of general education, its specific goals, and its role in the college curriculum are discussed. The goals of general education appear to center around teaching students to think analytically and to synthesize ideas into a general understanding. It is suggested, however, that these objectives tend to get lost in the specifics of…

The American Association of Junior Colleges sponsored "A Seminar for Great Teachers" during August 1969. The participants were divided into groups that met three times each day for nine days. This report describes the discussions of group F. The 11 members were teachers of various subjects at different colleges. All were concerned with holding the…

Summary of the fifth annual meeting of the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages held in St. Paul, Minnesota, April 26-28, 1973. (RL)

Paper presented at the Second International Congress on the Teaching of Spanish in Madrid, Spain, in February 1971. (DS)

The major papers presented at the 1971 conference of the South Australian Science Teachers Association are included in this pamphlet. Scientists from industry, research institutions, and the police forensic laboratory, and practicing teachers presented papers which included descriptions of modern scientific techniques, discussions of the role of…

Reports 13 simulation and game techniques that were developed during a consumer education workshop. (SB)

The authors report on a Methodology Conference aimed at the development of a model for the training of rehabilitation personnel employed in agencies assessing the disadvantaged. The conference was the first phase of the Disadvantaged Series of developmental conferences held at the University of Pittsburgh in 1969. Participants included 12…

This report describes the teacher educator's search for professional identify; the implications of previous research and development efforts for teachers of speech communication; the use of instructional domains, systems approaches, and behavioral objectives in speech communication instruction; the committee recommendations and rationales arrived…

Report of a conference of the editorial board with German teachers, December 1971, Dusseldorf, West Germany. (WB)

Speeches, speech summaries , and sectional meeting notes from the Midwest Conference on Articulation in the Sciences Between Junior Colleges and Four Year Colleges and Universities are included in this report. The speeches treat such topics as (1) differences and similarities between junior colleges, four year colleges, and universities, (2)…

Papers presented at the Third Annual International Institute on the Community College are provided. In these papers, many facets of accountability are discussed: goal-setting, assumptions about learning, instructional modes, educational management practices, student development, instructional resources, and the systems approach. In addition, panel…

This report on the Contemporary Music Project focuses on the principles of comprehensive musicianship. (Author)

The Workshop on Instructional Development was one of a number of workshops organized on various issues concerning teaching and learning in the Ontario universities. It was held in an attempt to provide some exchange of information among the Ontario universities on the organized activities initiated on their campuses concerned with improving…