Abstracts of 166 documents containing information on programs for preparing teachers to teach in an open society are synthesized and presented in this bibliography. The abstracts appeared in RESEARCH IN EDUCATION prior to the inception of the Educational Resources Information Center's Clearinghouse on Teacher Education. Part 1 presents summaries…

Classroom management is defined as procedures for arranging the classroom environment so that children learn what the teacher wants to teach them in the healthiest and most effective way possible. The Southwestern Cooperative Educational Laboratory presents a discussion of these procedures as they relate to social controls and components of…

A research project carried out by the Southwestern Cooperative Educational Laboratory attempted to define and describe characteristic learning styles and related environmental factors of children of 2 minority groups in the Southwest. Students of Spanish American and Indian descent were subjected to specific tests, and comparative analyses were…

Approximately 230 books, articles, and resource materials are cited in this annotated bibliography of materials for English as a second language classes. Specific materials listed are: elementary reading materials; kits for elementary students on language, science and math, and songs and music; stories; Spanish texts; and English grammar texts and…

The following lectures are included in this volume: Needed: "Turned on" Teachers; The Most Important Advantage; HILT: High Intensity Language Training; The Education Gap: Why Mexican American Children Fail in School; The Mexican American Heritage; The Invisible Poor: The World of the Migrant; and Emergence of the Mexican American. The…

The 1963 language arts project in Wagon Mound, New Mexico, was designed to make administrators and teachers aware of and concerned about the problems of teaching English to Spanish-speaking children in grades 1-12. General and specific objectives and instructional techniques stressed improvement of oral and written communication. An analysis of…

A 1965 summer training program for 90 VISTA volunteers at Monte Vista, Colorado, is described and evaluated in this report. The program was designed to prepare VISTA trainees to work in poverty areas by providing individual helping services and by planning and organizing community action. The trainees lived and worked in Monte Vista, a small…

This curriculum guide for Wisconsin's secondary school Spanish program begins with a section on guiding principles, briefly covering such concepts as the nature of language, the length of language study, language selection, the place of English in the foreign language classroom, the place of grammar, and the prereading phase of second language…

In this final stage of a series of three linguistic studies conducted at the University of California, Santa Barbara, four topics are presented. The longest is a study of consonant gemination in German, Spanish, French, and American English from acoustic, perceptual, and radiographic points of view. Pharyngeal features are studied in the…

The impact of Western culture, represented by the Spanish, Mexican, and the Anglo American, on Indian cultures of the Southwest is assessed in this volume. An attempt is made to synthesize the tremendous amount of information, gathered by many investigators, on Indian cultures in relation to the question, "What are the chief ways in which…

Values tend to become distorted at the intercultural level. What is considered "good" in one society may be criticized as "bad" or "incomprehensible" in another. For example, American culture tends to value time to the point of obsession, whereas Hispanic cultures subordinate temporal considerations to interpersonal relationships. The resulting…

This publication is a book for young children, written to help prevent drug abuse. The emphasis is on developing cognitive and emotional attitudes that will prevent drug abuse and other destructive activities. The book offers activities and stories in Spanish and English which are intended to: give children a sense of accomplishment; help children…

Instructional materials and procedures to be used by Spanish-speaking children learning English call for assessment strategies not normally employed. Assessment scores aid in the selection of students, in student placement, in identifying children in need of remediation, and in assessing student performance at the end of the program. Assessment…

These papers were presented at a series of conferences on language and cultural differences organized by the Texas Education Agency to help school administrators deal with bilingual education, racial integration, and implementation of court orders. The papers address five areas of concern: the concept and definition of culture, culture and the…

Utilizing data for blacks, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and other Spanish heritage Americans, a model of urban differentiation was evaluated. Building on recent research of black-white patterns, the model related some structural characteristics of metropolitan areas (manufacturing employment, the presence of two important minorities, recent…