The first section of this document contains a report on research conducted to develop a model to evaluate the attitudinal and behavioral goals of K-12 environmental education. The goals of environmental education are specified, the desired skill outcomes are listed, examples of evaluative techniques are given, and an evaluation of a 2-week unit on…

Major career education concepts were infused into the total curriculum in District II of Richland County in Columbia, South Carolina. Six major areas of emphasis were identified reflecting district thinking and national trends: self awareness; decision-making; career awareness; attitudes and appreciations; economic awareness; and educational…

This survey assembles information on the developments and trends in inservice teacher training in Asia, identifies the growing points of innovative approaches for improving inservice teacher preparation, and identifies ways that further education of teachers is linked to programs of curriculum development and the introduction of new teaching…

The author implies or mentions in general that many factors, such as economic, cultural, psychological and political, all interacting with one another, determine the state of society and more specifically that of our environment. Basically, however, he attempts to identify how engineering and technology fit into the situation. He states, as a…

This document has been published by an ad-hoc committee with the purpose of guiding the development of industrial arts activities as an element of career education. The relationship of industrial arts education to career education and the scope and sequence of industrial arts activities within this relationship are discussed. The integration of…

The purpose of this nationwide directory of innovative programs in undergraduate education is to provide like-minded professionals a means of contacting each other to share information and experiences. The directory divides innovative programs into three categories: instructional, curricular, and institutional. The section on instructional…

This paper presents a commentary on the Report of the Commission on English published in 1965, "Freedom and Discipline in English." In particular, inconsistencies between the Commission's Recommendation 13, calling for a clearly defined sequence of study from grade to grade, and other statements apparently contradicting this sequential structure…

The guide for teaching gifted students art in grades 10 through 12 stresses the importance of art education and of the role of the teacher for a successful art program. Among topics considered in an overview of art instruction are characteristics of art, the tradition of art, higher intellectual skills developed by art, and art and creativity.…

Good public relations can be achieved through positive contingencies and reinforcers. An administration and staff that stresses students' success will often make an enormous difference in the atmosphere of a school as well as in the pride of the students and the community in their school. (Author)

Although professional negotiations have in the past dealt mainly with welfare items such as salary and health benefits, this report contends that it is quite likely that the next major area of negotiations will be that of curriculum. In light of this probable increase in demand to participate in the curriculum decisionmaking process, the author…

The purpose of the study was to determine the degree of success being attained by teachers who have had the benefit of participating in a three-week career education summer workshop in (1) teaching the basic career development concepts listed with the scope and sequence model in Wisconsin's "K-12 Guide for Integrating Career Development Into Local…

This document is the product of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education's Teacher Education and Religion Project of the mid-1950s. The booklet is designed to offer guidelines to institutions interested in holding faculty seminars as a technique in curriculum study, especially for religious education. The following essays are…

This bulletin contains: (1) a summary and conclusions of a study of mathematics curricula in Europe and Japan, and (2) a description of beginning efforts to evaluate the Secondary School Mathematics Curriculum Improvement Study (SSMCIS) project. Some of the conclusions of the European and Japanese study are: (1) the study of Euclidean synthetic…

The South Carolina Environmental Education Conference was held February 3 and 4, 1971, at Hobcaw House, Georgetown, South Carolina. The Conference was intended to provide a dialogue between teacher-training institutions, State Department of Education personnel, and other state agency personnel interested in environmental education. One aim of the…

Although prepared for the occasion of a national seminar in Thailand, the substance of this paper applied in a wide context of countries now making plans to develop school programs in population education. After an introduction to the need for introducing population education in the school curriculum and the way this need is perceived by family…