A project studied the feasibility of delivering instructional modules via a computer-managed instructional system for preparing and certifying inservice vocational education teachers. The project developed a computer-based system to deliver and manage instructional modules, developed and field tested twenty instructional modules, and developed a…

This module is designed to enable the teacher working in an actual school situation with a special needs learner to develop an individualized instruction program based on a diagnostic, prescriptive teaching model. The first of three chapters contains three learning experience activities which are designed to help the teacher demonstrate knowledge…

The Adult Competency Education (ACE) Project sought to define basic job-related skills and tasks for the development of instructional programs. The programs included a vocational counseling component to assist students in establishing skills needed to increase employability. In phase 1 the 100 entry-level jobs most frequently occurring in San…

This first of three how-to manuals in the Adult Competency Education (ACE) Kit contains a brief introduction, flowchart of the ACE student process, and counseling manual. The manual describes a process integrating counseling and instruction and demonstrating ACE's premise that vocational counseling can provide students the stimulus for…

One of twenty course guides in the Community Living Skills Guide for the College for Living series, this document provides guidelines and workbook activities for the course, Art. The series of courses for developmentally disabled adults is intended to supplement residential programs and to aid in orienting institutionalized persons to eventual…

One of twenty course guides in the Community Living Skills Guide for the College for Living series, this document provides guidelines and workbook activities for the course, Sexuality. The series of courses for developmentally disabled adults is intended to supplement residential programs and to aid in orienting institutionalized persons to…

Intended to help ABE (Adult Basic Education) teachers learn to design effective learning activities, this handbook provides activity suggestions, informative materials, and sample forms and materials. Section 1, Adults as Learners, discusses the adult learner's unique characteristics and includes an article on teaching strategies and learning…

This report discusses a project to provide a comprehensive pre-service and inservice training program for adult basic education (ABE) teachers and paraprofessionals throughout Kentucky. It is arranged by the project's six components. Chapters 1 and 2 focus on two activities of the adult learning disabilities teacher training component: Adult…

Boys and girls in the early years of adolescence can best learn ESL communicative skills if the instructor has an understanding of the main characteristics of early adolescence and an appreciation of the teaching techniques best adaped to them. Characteristics which should be taken into account when designing an ESL course include the following:…

Materials presented in this kit form a package containing eighty-six vocational development oriented activities designed primarily for individuals and small groups of underachieving junior high or high school students and is intended to supplement regular classroom activities. Included in the kit are the following: (1) a teacher's guide containing…

Computer-assisted instructional (CAI) lessons were incorporated as instructional support for a one-semester course in occupational information for 122 eighth graders at a selected middle school in the Dallas, Texas, Independent School District to field-test five modules (fifteen color videotapes and fifteen CAI lessons) focusing on career…

Eighteen projects funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title III, and providing funds to public school districts to demonstrate the feasibility of educational innovations, are described in this booklet developed as a dissemination project by Title III in Oklahoma. Programs described are said to have the common theme of increased…

This yearbook of the Association for Programmed Learning and Educational Technology is intended to provide an updated general reference survey for practitioners in educational technology. In Section 1, eight invited articles on trends within the field serve to outline some aspects of current thinking. Section 2 contains articles on the state of…

This publication is intended to serve as a guide to nine elementary teacher education models financed by the U. S. Office of Education in 1968. The authors of the models, gathered at a 2-day conference in April, 1969, wrote the nine summaries of their models which appear in this guide. Each summary is similarly organized (except one not written at…

This paper investigates the nature of social change and the special needs of youth, and innovation in the teaching of social studies at the secondary level. Drawing on curriculum experiments begun in 1967, a new social studies program of non-graded instructional modules was inaugurated in 1969 concentrating in 3 areas: 1) United States Realities,…