This course of study is intended to provide a comprehensive overview of an elementary school science program. In addition to high individual pupil achievement at each grade level, this program is also designed to provide a broad and comprehensive continuum of experiences that lead toward the obtainment of the identified science goals. A strong…

This digest discusses the scope of practice of the secondary school counselor in today's school, citing Norman Gysbers' Comprehensive Guidance Program Model as an approach to developmental counseling which empowers counselors to define their own scope of practice, and thereby effectively address the needs of their students. (TE)

A shift in instructional focus to student needs and interests spurred the development of a different approach to French second language program design in Alberta. A practical curriculum planning model is offered that is based on: (1) communicative and student-centered activities; (2) responsiveness to teacher needs; and (3) supporting planning for…

Oregon's Parenthood Curriculum has been designed for use within the state's middle/junior high school home economics classrooms; its overall goal is to enable future parents to nurture their children, based on a practical reasoning process that helps students examine the underlying causes of practical problems and the implications of solutions for…

This study was designed to establish a basis for developing a relevant curriculum for preparing administrators of physical education departments in higher education. Responses to a questionnaire were received from 106 chief administrators in university and college physical education programs. The first part of the questionnaire asked respondents…

This syllabus outlines art instruction in grades seven and eight and focuses on the visual arts concepts of space and structure, movement, and color and light. The publication is organized under the following sections: (l) Goals and Objectives; (2) Focus: Grades 7 and 8; (3) Scope and Sequence; (4) Developing a Curriculum from This Syllabus; (5)…

This book discusses the anachronistic nature of the graded school structure and the practices that accompany it and proposes the alternative of a nongraded structure. The incompatibility of the graded system with present insights into child development are the the emphasis of the first chapter. Chapter 2 examines the effectiveness of nonpromotion…

The Academy of International Business is a world-wide organization that has been concerned with the development of international business for over 25 years. Its membership comes chiefly from academe, but also from business, government, and various international organizations. It has supported international business education through publications,…

The conceptual framework within which Alberta's elementary school French immersion programs are designed is presented. The first of three main sections outlines the evolution of the concept of language and some second language instructional approaches, including the structural, formalist, functional, and communicative approaches. It also discusses…

An outline of the Spanish curriculum used in grades 4-7 in the Radford, Virginia schools is presented. It consists of outlines of the course content for each year of the four-year program. The content is divided into two categories: listening comprehension, geared to a specific textbook, and the grouped skills of speaking, reading, writing,…

This handbook has been structured to provide teachers (K-2) with the most recent research on problem solving. It contains information and practical applications which deal with the key concepts of problem solving in mathematics. The handbook consists of four sections. The first section establishes the background and gives the purposes of the…

This report outlines the Seattle Public Schools' high School program, with an emphasis on preparation for college and employment. Part I describes the seminar, held in 1982-83, which generated this report. It explains that recommendations contained in this report will become guidelines for schools as they move towards the district's goal of…

To investigate how the number of years students spend studying academic subjects affects their achievement, this study compiled data from a nationwide longitudinal study of 58,000 high school students begun in 1980, and from 1982 College Board testing files. Years of instruction in seven subject areas were related, using statewide averages, to…

Before 1978, the School of Education at Radford University (Virginia) had no international/multicultural programs. Through organizational change and the development of a commitment to international education, numerous preservice and inservice programs have emerged. A model teacher education program has also been conceptualized and…

An outline of the basic elements and services of the Chicago public high schools' bilingual education programs provides information to assist staff at all levels in implementing the programs. The information includes: (1) descriptions of the basic program components (core instruction in the native language, instruction in English as a second…