This guide presents a competency-based curriculum for a high school course in sales promotion. It addresses all three domains of learning: psychomotor, cognitive, and affective. Activities suggested in the guide deal with getting along with others, with supervisors or staff members, and with small or large groups. The guide, which can be used with…

Designed to supplement the day-to-day planning, teaching, and evaluation activities of environmental education teachers at all educational levels, this compilation contains over 1000 resumes of practitioner-oriented documents announced in "Resources in Education" (RIE) between 1966 and 1982. The resumes are organized by educational level…

These self-paced inservice modules are designed to help part-time vocational instructors learn how to teach. Addressed in the individual modules are the following topics: teaching methods (an overview of teaching, the lecture and discussion method, and the demonstration method); course construction (an overview of course construction and…

This teacher's guide is designed to help teachers make the families described in the "People on the Farm" series of booklets come alive for their students. The guide provides a variety of suggestions for class discussions and student activities. The teacher's guide is organized into three sections. Section 1 covers some of the major ideas, or…

This resource guide for teachers offers material for teaching money management in classes ranging from elementary through adult level. The guide covers seven key concepts in separate units: values and goals, income and employment, money management, financial products and services, credit, insurance, and savings and investments. Each unit includes…

This package contains both an instructor's manual and student materials for a course in appliance repair. The instructor's manual is designed to aid the instructor in the use of the Kentucky Appliance Repairer Competency Based Task Assignment System. Following a description of the field and a list of 77 references, the instructor's manual is…

An instructors' manual describing the "Write-Now" approach to teaching writing to adult students preparing for the General Educational Development (GED) test together with a final report describing the project that developed the manual is presented. Topics covered in the 16 chapters of the manual include the following: what we believe…

This curriculum guide is designed to build upon the skills and knowledge of industrial electronics gained by the student through the learning activities of the introductory volumes of the electronics program. Specifically, the student, whether in secondary, postsecondary, or adult education, will have the opportunity to expand those skills in…

This teacher's guide is designed for use by consumer and homemaking education teachers in classes emphasizing nutrition. The guide is organized into 19 topics and is based on the 7 Dietary Guidelines for Americans: (1) to eat a variety of food; (2) to maintain ideal weight; (3) to avoid too much fat; (4) to eat foods with adequate starch and…

Seventh graders in Manitoba will gain a better understanding of the highly interdependent and interconnected world in which they live when they complete these supplementary units of study. Units and subtopics are: (1) Planet Earth--how it resembles a spaceship, its relationship to the universe and to the solar system, and how its motions and…

As part of the high school vocational industrial program in Manitoba, this course has been designed to provide students with the foundation for a career in cosmetology. The program introduces and provides opportunities for student skill development in the techniques of hairdressing, hair cutting, facial preparation, and skin care. The program,…

A project to develop English reading texts for Japanese college students is described. Goals were to develop materials that will: (1) give students information about the United States, (2) interest students in reading English, (3) help students improve their reading skills, and (4) expose students to a variety of literary forms. Fifty important…

This curriculum guide contains learning module outlines for teaching a series of courses in graphic arts in high schools in Alberta. Each module provides learning experiences selected to develop basic competence in trades in the graphic arts field. Each module consists of an introduction, objectives, learning resources list, content summary, and a…

This instructor's guide consists of materials for use in teaching a course in algebra designed for students enrolled in postsecondary vocational and technical education programs. Addressed in the eight individual units of the guide are the following topics: signed numbers, algebraic notation, equations and inequalities, solving algebraic…

This guide was developed to assist volunteers in tutoring adult readers who read below the ninth-grade level. It was intended to be used as a supplement to the tutor training programs for volunteers at Drake University. The following topics are discussed in the guide in either narrative or question-and-answer format: getting started as a tutor,…