This language arts minicourse guide for Lampeter-Strasburg (Pennsylvania) High School contains a topical outline of an introduction to a poetry course. The guide includes a list of twenty course objectives; an outline of the definitions, the stanza forms, and the figures of speech used in poetry; a description of the course content and concepts to…

This language arts minicourse guide for Lampeter-Strasburg (Pennsylvania) High School contains a topical outline of a course on the novel. The guide includes a list of seven course objectives; an outline of the elements to be studied from eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth century novels; a description of novels and concepts to be studied in…

The purpose of this paper is to present a new approach to teaching a creative writing sequence for high school students. During the first 45-day course, over 30 papers are to be written. Students begin with a paper titled "I Am" and proceed through a series of self-discovery papers. The papers give the students a chance to understand…

A classroom program that has been developed to teach students a variety of basic interpersonal communication skills is described in this paper. The focus of the program is on adding to students' repertoire of skills in order to increase the flexibility of their interpersonal communication and the range of choices in relationships. There are three…

The comprehensive guide is a planned approach to career education providing the necessary concepts, facts, and activities to all students in a sequential and continuous format during their school years, K-12. The document opens with a career development scope and sequence model, and sections on career development concepts (self concept, world of…

The career education guide, designed to supplement existing curriculum at the primary level, suggests and outlines a developmental program of followup activities which can be implemented by teachers within the existing framework of the school. The career related materials can be developed with suggested activities and materials designed to:…

Presented is a model of a graduate course for students from a variety of disciplines on human sexuality and the developmentally disabled. Course objectives are said to include competencies in designing and administering programs to foster appropriate sexual behavior and in assisting parents to deal with their children's sexuality. Seven resources…

This report on the operation of the Cooperative Urban Teacher Education Program (CUTE) for the fall semester 1969 is divided into two parts. Part 1 examines the objective data in terms of the hypotheses: 1) On each of the measures taken during the semester, students participating in the program do not change. 2) On each of the measures taken,…

A structural approach to world history, embodied in a ninth grade required course, is outlined in this course description. The fundamental concept of the course is that history is a process of development, and this process is analyzed in terms of a study of the basic factors in historical development. The most useful of these factors are…

The unique character and needs of the Comprehensive Achievement Monitoring (CAM) system has led to the creation of new computer programs and new techniques. Thus, earlier manual strategies (which were subject to error) for the handling of the large banks of behavioral objectives and test items, have been supplanted by a three-phase computer…

The majority of students entering Macomb County Community College enroll in the liberal arts curriculum with the intention of earning college credits and transferring to a 4-year institution. But many of these freshmen are "latent terminal" students with poor to average high school grades and low SCAT or ACT scores who fail in their chosen…

This instruction guide was prepared in order to assist schools in upgrading their health education programs. It is organized in a K-12 sequence of appropriate concepts indicating articulation between the primary, intermediate, junior, and senior high levels, but it provides flexibility for local school district scheduling. The format within each…

This study was conducted: (1) to provide data on whether student achievement can be influenced significantly by providing students, in advance of instruction, information on what will be expected of them as an outcome of instruction and, (2) to investigate various ways of communicating to students, in writing, that which is to be learned in class.…

This automotive electrical and electronic system course is an intermediate course designed for the student who has completed automotive Electrical and Electronic System I. The theory and principles of operation of the components of the starting and charging systems and other electrical accessory systems in the automobile will be learned by the…

The automotive history and development of the automobile course is designed to familiarize the beginning student with basic concepts common to the automobile history and general information that is required for successful advancement in the automotive mechanics field. A course outline is provided and seven pages of post-tests are included in the…