This book of readings provides the college level student with a variety of articles that reflect the diversified early childhood education programs, models, and strategies currently in use. The articles are intended to acquaint the student with a basic background of information that encompasses many of the major issues and concerns in early…

The program known as the Alaska Rural Teacher Training Corps (ARTTC) was established in 1970 as a 4-year experimental program to train Native elementary school teachers for rural Alaskan native communities or for any school in the country where an Alaskan teaching certificate is acceptable. The beginning group included an even distribution of…

This volume contains the proceedings of a conference for newspaper journalists on problems in education. Contents include "A Summary of the Conference Sessions,""Session Summaries,""About the Working Paper Authors,""The Conference Working Papers,""Research Papers Prepared for the Conference,""The Conference Program," and "List of Participants."…

The Instructional Development Project at Harper College from 1970 to 1973 is described. The objective of the project was to improve instruction by providing a framework and an inservice training program for faculty members. A total of 30 instructors participated in the project at a total cost of $35,223 including released time costs, and…

The paper pointed out the need for an understanding of what motivates the young American Indian student to attend school and to want to achieve in a school setting. The Slosson Intelligence Test and the Wide Range Achievement Test were used to evaluate the effectiveness of the Engelmann-Becker Follow Through Program in motivating students. At the…

Two major topics are covered in this paper--the evaluation of instructional programs in general and the evaluation of computer-assisted instructional (CAI) course material during initial preparation. The first half of the paper reviews significant literature relating to instructional program evaluation and distinguishes between formative and…

This content analysis schedule for the Bilingual Education Program of the Healdsburg Union Elementary School District of Healdsburg, California, presents information on the history, funding, and scope of the project in its second year. Included are sociolinguistic process variables such as the native and dominant languages of students and their…

This content analysis schedule for the Chinese Bilingual Pilot Program of the San Francisco Unified School District presents information on the history, funding, and scope of the project in its second year. Included are sociolinguistic process variables such as the native and dominant languages of students and their interaction. Information is…

This guide is for teachers and administrators involved in the preparation and implementation of kindergarten programs. Part I, in a series of captioned photographs, reviews basic qualities and needs of young children. Part II examines historical events important in the development of early childhood education, and describes several educational…

Certain issues are cited as the most difficult in secondary education. These include the failure to provide equal educational opportunity; the establishment of school programs that are throught to be irrelevant or that treat student populations as homogeneous entities; unyielding bureaucracies; and a lack of opportunity for parent, student, and…

This guide is the result of a consolidation of three separate, closely related dissertation studies designed to provide information for preparing a planning guide for drafting and design technology programs. One of the studies was of the Texas Junior College drafting and design curricula, another was of the buildings and equipment, and the third…

This elementary curriculum handbook's basic premise is that the responsibility for curriculum determination is fundamentally the responsibility of the local school district. The contents are intended to assist local district personnel working on the social studies curriculum of the elementary school with suggestions, guidelines, resources, and…

The Project NECESSITIES Draft Development Plan, in the form of a Curriculum Development Bank set up to reform social studies education and communication in Bureau of Indian Affairs schools, attempts to establish meaningful guidelines in order to gain the benefits of centralism and regionalism in the creation of multiple Scope and Sequence Plans at…

The activities and materials in this Project NECESSITIES social studies unit (People, Places and Things) are meant to act as a framework by which the teacher may devise additional content material appropriate to her own students' unique background. The unit, devised for use with primary school students, has as one of its primary emphases the use…

It is recommended that this Project NECESSITIES material be used with high-potential Indian 10th, 11th, and 12th graders; however, the junior year may be best. It is also suggested that the social studies department of a high school plan to teach the material on a rotating-team basis. If no more than 1 period a day can be utilized, then the class…