This document presents learning packages to assist administrators individualize the instructional program. The materials presented follow the individualized instructional format which teachers might utilize with students in the classroom. The information presented deals with the goals and rationale of individualized instruction, and the resources…

This document presents the Instruction and Professional Development (IPD) division activities of the Ohio Education Association. First, the purpose of the IPD division is explained. Next, the IPD is discussed in terms of the help it lends to the local associations in its role of improving instruction in the areas of professional development. This…

This guide is designed for the second part of a two-part bookkeeping course for adults who are either keeping a set of records for a small business, or who wish to prepare to do so. The following seven lessons are included and are based on a business making retail sales of goods: (1) Introduction; (2) Data Sources and Recording for a Trading…

This booklet provides instruction, for junior high and senior high school actors and their teachers, in the basic concepts and vocabulary of theatrical communication. Suggested exercises include practice in combining dialogue and movement, mastering knowledge of stage areas and body positions, and working with scripts on stage. Criteria for…

"Chance Dance" is a success-oriented learning technique which gives students an opportunity to explore a word or a concept through oral expression, dance, and creative writing. This is done by first eliciting from the group all possible verbal associations for a selected word or concept and then, in smaller groups, choreographing some of these…

The teaching guide outlines developmentally sequenced activities for learning the basic computational skills. Sections cover sequential steps for the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers; information on developing building kits and sample worksheets; the use of number sheets (sample sheets are provided); and the use…

Provided is a collection of teacher developed activities for teaching social adjustment skills to elementary school students. Activities are categorized in such skill areas as communication, social, motor, and perceptual; and most include goal or purpose, grade level, and a list of materials needed. (IM)

Teachers in the English department at the Harley School, Rochester, New York, developed a program in theater as a continuing and inherent part of the English curriculum. (Author/RK)

To instruct prospective and practicing industrial education teachers to be resourceful in the classroom, the utilization of all available resources and scrap materials for constructing various models and material testing devices for industrial education classes is discussed. (LH)

A teacher learned that by positively stimulating students to be creative he was able to help them and himself develop the control necessary to a productive classroom. (RK)

The digits in 1776 can be used in a variety of mathematical activities (especially during the bicentennial year). (SD)

A discussion of student contracting, a plan whereby a teacher and a student or a group of students make an agreement that a certain amount of work is to be completed in a certain amount of time. (Author/HB)