The guide was developed to assist elementary school counselors and teachers in working together to provide children, grades K-5, with a school experience which addresses their career development needs through developing both affective and cognitive learnings. Part 1, The Importance of Career Guidance in the Elementary School, provides a general…

Volume 2 of the six-volume articulated elementary education career guide deals with the career awareness level of career education and aims at developing student career identity. The lessons in the volume are divided and color-coded by grade level (early childhood, primary levels one, two, and three corresponding respectively with grades K-three,…

Volume 4 of the six-volume articulated elementary education career guides deals with the beginning occupational competency level of career awareness and aims at developing student employable skills. The lessons in the volume are divided and color-coded by grade level (early childhood, primary levels 1-3, and intermediate levels 1-3 corresponding…

The conditions of learning and the causes of learning difficulties are defined; identification of children with learning disabilities is considered. Half of the document is a curriculum guide for remediation through the visual, auditory, and motor approach; problems, symptoms, diagnoses, representative activities, and materials are detailed. About…

A number of ways to interweave the teaching of culture with the teaching of language skills at all levels are suggested. In considering the manners by which to present selected cultural patterns at the different levels, the article cites three methods by which teaching culture can be incorporated easily into the language teaching activities of…

One of a series of pamphlets providing practical and useful sources of classroom techniques for social studies teachers, the concern of this issue is how to engage children in the study of political participation, attending to varied dimensions of political actions and approaches to analysis. The first of two sections discusses political…

This book presents a collection of card games that can be used as learning tools in early childhood classrooms. Each game description includes approximate number of players, step-by-step instructions for playing and suggested variations. Charts with a variety of categories are included to help the teacher find the card games most appropriate to…

Practical methods and materials for changing sexist practices in the classroom are offered as a resource for teachers in their efforts to eliminate sexual stereotyping from the schools. Discussing why sexist practices should be changed are reprints of articles on women's role in social change and in the curriculum, development of sexual…

This paper describes the Florida Parent Educator Program as a component of Planned Variation Head Start. The program is currently being implemented in four communities embraces a philosophy of cognitive transactionalism, a philosophy molded by the work of Jean Piaget and others. This philosophy states that "the child is born with a set of…

Designed to be of practical assistance to those interested in improving their abilities for group discussion leadership and participation and their knowledge of learning-discussion groups, this book is organized so that the first seven chapters are concerned with theory and the last seven concern practical application. The chapter titles are as…

Developed by a supervisor of guidance and testing and a supervisor of vocational education and industrial arts with the aid of elementary teachers, counselors, and consultants, this resource guide for Grades K-5 contains ideas and activities for implementing a program of occupational awareness into the existing elementary school curriculum. The…

A compilation of works on educational gerontology is presented. This bibliography is divided into 20 sections: (1) General References: Education for Older People, (2) Educational Programs for Older People, (3) Multipurpose Senior Centers, (4) Recreation for Older People, (5) Preretirement Education, (6) Consumer Education for Older People, (7)…

Prepared by an English instructor and a reading supervisor from ideas suggested by an advisory committee of teachers, this compilation of learning activities is designed for use by language arts teachers to supplement the curriculum resource handbook, "Learning Laboratories for Unemployed, Out-of-School Youth" (ED 047 273). The 19 activities,…

This document proposes a detailed foundation for curriculum planning in grades 1, 2, and 3 in the Argentine elementary schools. The book covers such topics as curriculum objectives, contents and activities, personalization and individualization, socialization and regionalization, quality, organization, and suggestions for subject matter and…

This thesis describes a method for teaching English composition, with the parallel development of comprehension skills, to students in the Middle East Technical University. A survey of techniques for teaching English composition to foreign students is provided along with a discussion of the steps usually followed in writing instruction. The…