THIS COURSE OUTLINE IS FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF THE HONOLULU COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM STAFF. IT DESCRIBES THE PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF ERIC (WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE CLEARINGHOUSES FOR JUNIOR COLLEGES AND VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION), THE SOURCES OF ITS MATERIALS, THE METHODS OF DISTRIBUTION, COSTS, AVAILABILITY OF DOCUMENTS, ETC. IT INCLUDES…

The document consists of three parts--an instructional bulletin for teachers of urban junior high school students with average and below average reading ability, a book of readings, and three novelettes prepared for these students. The bulletin offers guidelines on the ways to use the readings and suggestions for teaching literature to urban…

To furnish a curriculum guide for teachers of English as a second language, this manual explains the principles, sound and structure patterns, the vocabulary range, and the basic cultural and orientation information necessary to teach adults. To aid the teacher, such information as how adults learn, criteria for placing students by grade level,…

This teacher's guide for the SMSG text materials for grade 1 considers ten chapters: sets and numbers, numerals and the number line, sets of ten, introduction to addition and subtraction, recognizing geometric figures, place value and numeration, addition and subtraction, arrays and multiplication, partitions and rational numbers, and linear…

Detailed lesson plans are provided in this teacher's guide for the SMSG text materials for grade 2. Included are chapters on sets and numbers (review), addition and subtraction (review), sets of points, addition and subtraction (extension), linear measurement, computing sums and differences, congruence of angles and triangles, arrays and…

The natural science curriculum guide for gifted primary students includes a sample teaching-learning plan for an ecology unit and eight sample lesson plans. Chapter One provides an overview of the unit, a review of behavioral objectives, and a list of concepts and generalizations. The second chapter cites a teaching-learning plan dealing with such…

Five criteria derived from an original conception of basic education are used to appraise The Essential Learning Skills Television Project and to guide the proposal of ideas to strengthen the project. It is assumed that to prepare students to cope with the challenges of daily living and citizenship, curricula must stress acquisition of skills in…

This instructor's lesson plan guide is one of fifteen modules designed for use in the training of emergency medical technicians (EMT). Four units are presented: (1) role of the EMT, including the operation of an emerging medical services system; (2) the laws relevant to EMTs functioning in the field; (3) activities and responsibilities of an EMT…

The lesson plans represent activities carried out in the industrial arts laboratory of Southside Junior High School as part of the Buffalo public school's career education project. Designed for the level of grade 10, these activities provide industrial arts instruction as a means to allow the student to gain awareness of his abilities, aptitudes,…

The Adult Career Education Resources Survey was designed to (a) compile career information resources for adults and (b) provide materials that will encourage adult educators to integrate career education activities into ongoing curricula. The document was developed and revised by the Suvey staff to meet the second objective; it provides a group of…

The purpose of this paper is to examine pertinent research concerned with teaching English as a second language (ESL) to speakers of Spanish, to analyze fundamental problems Spanish speakers may experience when taught to read and learn in the target language English, and to suggest practices for teachers of ESL to assist Spanish-English bilingual…

This monograph on elementary probability for middle school, junior high, or high school consumer mathematics students is divided into two parts. Part one emphasizes lessons which cover the fundamental counting principle, permutations, and combinations. The 5 lessons of part I indicate the objectives, examples, methods, application, and problems…

Four suggested science curriculum units are presented. They represent a cross-section of materials that have been developed to deal with the learning problems of students with special language difficulties in grades 7 through 12, in addition to classes in adult education. The units were classroom-tested during 1970-72. The units, which are…

This collection contains Child Development Associate (CDA) training materials from the Fall River, Massachusetts, training program, including a booklet for trainers, a chapter on curriculum planning, and three modules covering the areas of preschool environment, daily schedule and transitions, and observations of children. Each module contains a…

Developed for use with migrant children between the ages of 8 and 12 years, working at a second grade level, this Zip Pak was created to give additional aid in reading and vocabulary building. Since the speaking vocabulary of these children tends to be normal while their reading and writing vocabulary tends to be low, an attempt was made to…