This document contains Indiana agricultural chemicals curriculum materials based on the Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States (VTECS) Agricultural Chemicals Catalog. It is intended to improve preparation of high school and adult students for handling and using agricultural chemicals and for jobs as chemical salespersons or chemical…

Small schools will find this social studies curriculum guide for grades K-3 helpful in complying with Washington state education laws that require districts to identify student learning objectives and evaluate each student's performance relative to the attainment of the objectives. This curriculum, developed during 1975 and 1976 by teachers and…

Unit I of a 4-unit (9-12 week) career development and life planning program for rural high school students focuses on life in rural localities. Designed to last approximately 13 days, the unit uses student experience and supplementary data as a basis for discussion of the local area, its people and their roles, the advantages and disadvantages of…

Designed to last approximately 7 days, Unit II of a 4-unit career development and life planning program for rural high school students focuses on teaching students decision making skills to enable them to exercise more control over their time and energies. The unit introduces the decision making process; provides practice in applying the process…

Designed to last approximately 12 days, Unit III of the 4-unit life planning and career development curriculum for rural high school students focuses on skills application. Through experience simulation, students apply skills learned in Unit II to the information from Unit I; they project their future lives and simulate their responses to problems…

The field-tested packet has been designed to adapt the rural high school career development and life planning curriculum to the Northeast region of the United States. Selected pages and simulation activities from Units I-IV of the curriculum have been rewritten to reflect the area; the majority of the examples are from Vermont and New Hampshire.…

Conditions and characteristics of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho are reflected in the field-tested adaptation packet for the Northwest version of "Options," a four-unit career development and life planning curriculum for rural high school students. Selected examples, student activity sheets and teacher guide pages from the four basic…

This report provides a program for identifying and eliminating racism in the Toronto school system. It is held that bias in curriculum materials must be removed and that the curriculum should be expanded to include the study of race and race relations. Methods for correctly assessing the abilities of minority students and placing them in…

This issue of "Investigations in Science Education" (ISE) provides analytical abstracts, prepared by science educators, of research reports in the areas of preservice and in-service teacher education for elementary and secondary science teachers; and in cognitive development of elementary and secondary school children. Each abstract…

These guidelines attempt to simplify and standardize a process for assessing vocational education programs in the Maricopa Community College District. After an introductory section outlining the purposes and mandates of such assessments, the paper discusses the roles and responsibilities of the District Task Force and of the Occupational Dean and…

Both formative and summative evaluations were used to guide development and appraise outcomes of a model college/public service agency collaborative effort to develop an inservice, onsite, volunteer training program for Office of Environmental Affairs (OEA) employees. Assessment procedures included interviews with Training Development Program…

In addition to an 11-page narrative, this final report contains materials from a model college/public service agency collaborative effort to develop an inservice, onsite, volunteer training program for Office of Environmental Affairs employees. These activities are described: task analysis to determine environmental/human service paraprofessional…

Written for Adult Basic Education teachers of developmentally disabled adults reading at or below a second grade level, this resource curriculum contains materials in the employability behaviors area. The curriculum is divided into the four domains sections of Communication, Intra/Interpersonal, Worker Habits, and Appearance. Under these four…

In six chapters and 118 tables with interpretive charts, this annual report presents data on the American educational system, including its students, its personnel, and its larger social context. Among its many findings are that Hispanics and students in central cities showed the highest dropout rates; that almost as many female as male high…

Designed to provide pre- and inservice vocational education administrators with the skills necessary to direct the curriculum development process, this competency-based module contains an introduction and three sequential learning experiences. Each learning experience consists of an overview, required and optional learning activities, a self-check…