The guide to classroom instruction in language development for educable mentally handicapped children at the intermediate level is said to be based on a 4 year demonstration project which subjectively evaluated several approaches to the stimulation of speech and language in retarded children. Stressed is the need to incorporate speech activities…

Presented in these teacher's guides for grades five and six are lesson plans and ideas for integrating mathematics and environmental education. Each lesson originates with a fundamental concept pertaining to the environment and states, in addition, its discipline area, subject area, and problem orientation. Following this, behavioral objectives…

Presented in these teacher's guides for grades seven and eight are lesson plans and ideas for integrating mathematics and environmental education. Each lesson originates with a fundamental concept pertaining to the environment and states, in addition, its discipline area, subject area, and problem orientation. Following this, behavioral objectives…

A career education program was designed for the disadvantaged youth in Leflore County, Mississippi, to be incorporated into the curriculum and supported with a guidance and counseling program (including job placement). At all grade levels, attempts were made to help the children become aware of themselves and others, develop a positive attitude…

This curriculum, designed for severely retarded children in a primary day care setting, is divided into three sections: (1) Awareness of Body Parts, (2) Gross Motor Skills, and (3) Language Arts. Detailed activities are suggested to develop and reinforce various gross motor coordinations and learning skills. (CS)

The teacher's manual on programed language instruction for trainable mentally handicapped children consists of curriculum of basic level vocabulary and teaching methods of small group instruction, reinforcement techniques, and specific learning principles. Distinctive features of the program are said to be: controlled language statements and…

The present study was designed to determine whether conservation of number, weight, volume, area, and mass could be learned and retained by disadvantaged preschool children when taught by an inexperienced classroom teacher. An instructional sequence of 10-minute lessons was presented on alternate days over a 3 1/2 week period by preservice…

An outline of principles for the construction of study materials is presented, including: (1) an analysis of prerequisites: goals, pupils, and language; (2) analysis of the educational process in experiments on method; (3) analysis of products with tests of various kinds; and (4) a description of the process of constructing study materials…

The resource guide provides a selection of approximately 50 teaching units on prevocational concepts and skills for use with educable mentally handicapped children at the primary, intermediate, and secondary levels. Stressed at each level are training for a job, choosing and getting a job, and working on the job. Teaching units are organized into…

A description of exercises originally designed for foreign children in the French educational system. A detailed lesson on reading a picture is given, involving brainstorming, classification of information, a listing of details and a possible interpretation. The exercises might be adapted to French foreign language instruction. (Text is in…

The purpose of this article is to focus attention on the need to teach language students not only what to say, but how to say it and when. A theoretical discussion provides linguistic background and analysis of data and a sample lesson to illustrate how sociolinguistic theory can be applied to the development of teaching materials. (Author/NCR)

This installment of "A Comme..." presents the following: use of the felt board for group games and reinforcement activities; a proposal for a sociocultural approach to classified ads and a sample lesson plan; and a discussion of the use of authentic documents for teaching future tense. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

E. Paul Torrance's Instructional Model uses an integrated approach to teach thinking skills and creative productivity along with subject content for gifted students. Thinking skill objectives include such skills as developing originality, keeping open, imagining the future, using movement, etc. Two sample lessons apply the model to creative…

Presents a secondary level teaching unit on the role of rogues and entrepreneurs in Indiana and Florida from World War I through the 1920s. The unit helps students recognize the continuing struggle to maintain basic constitutional freedoms, particularly freedom of speech and religion. Discusses ways to develop the unit and includes a list of…

The purposes, materials, and roles of teachers and students in developmental and practice lessons are contrasted. Two lessons designed to help students acquire understanding of geometric figures and of place value and two games for each are included. (MNS)