The interdisciplinary components of science instruction at two-year colleges are examined as revealed by curriculum offerings in environmental science, integrated science, and the history of science. Part I of the report reviews the literature concerning the rationale, objectives, course content, and instructional methods of interdisciplinary…

A total of 176 English language notations of books, articles, and government publications about education in 11 Arab countries are contained in this bibliography. Drawing from materials published in 1977, the bibliography examines education for all age groups and ability levels in Egypt, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,…

Four forces seem to be at work in society today that have implications for language teaching. First, the interdependence of planet Earth has become a reality that has increased general awareness of the presence of speakers of other languages among us and awareness on the part of government leaders of the need to encourage foreign language studies.…

Part of the Anthropology Curriculum Project, the document contains a programmed text on evolution and a vocabulary pronunciation guide. The unit is intended for use by students in social studies and science courses in the 5th, 6th, and 7th grades. The bulk of the document, the programmed text, is organized in a question answer format. Students are…

The regional and historical overview of race, caste, and prejudice is one of the units in the Anthropology Curriculum Project series. The major objective of the unit is to focus attention on discriminatory practices which grow out of physical differences and cultural attitudes. The document consists of teacher background materials and a student…

Part of a series which offers educational resources and teaching techniques related to major social issues to high school social studies classroom teachers, the guide focuses on government regulation. The document is presented in four major chapters. Chapter I explores how economic and political science frameworks can be used to analyze policy…

THIRTY-SIX ARTICLES BY DIFFERENT AUTHORS PRESENT WAYS IN WHICH THE RESULTS OF CREATIVITY RESEARCH MAY BE UTILIZED IN THE SCHOOL, THE CLASSROOM, AND THE COUNSELING OFFICE. AFTER AN INTRODUCTION, FIVE ARTICLES TREAT GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS--THE CAUSES AND CONDITIONS OF CREATIVITY, AND THE EDUCATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF CREATIVE AND GIFTED CHILDREN.…

One third of this report on the Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory's Cooperative Urban Teacher Education (CUTE) Program is a description of background information including origins, evolution, organization, structure, and formulation of the concepts used. CUTE is designed to improve urban teaching through helping the teacher to…

A continuation of a 3-year elementary school study investigated the effectiveness of the various schedules of a simulated environments technique on emotionally handicapped junior high school adolescents. The 58 subjects, whose original evaluation had shown no evidence of neurophysiological dysfunction or subnormal intelligence, were randomly…

THE PURPOSE OF THE SEMINAR WAS TO ASSIST TEACHER EDUCATION STAFFS TO IDENTIFY, EVALUATE, AND RESPOND TO THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE VOCATIONAL ACT OF 1963 FROM WHICH SPRANG THE CONCEPT OF THE PROJECT PLAN OF INSTRUCTION. PAPERS DEVELOPED BY PRACTITIONERS AND PROFESSIONAL EDUCATORS IN THE FIELD OF MARKETING AND DISTRIBUTION ARE PRESENTED--(1) "AN…

THE FIRST OF A SERIES DEALING WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES FROM A PSYCHONEUROLOGICAL STANDPOINT, THE VOLUME CONTAINS CURRENT DISCUSSIONS AND RESEARCH REPORTS. TEN AUTHORS FROM A VARIETY OF FIELDS CONTRIBUTE CHAPTERS, EACH WITH AN ACCOMPANYING LIST OF REFERENCES. THE EDITOR, H.R. MYKLEBUST, PROVIDES THE OPENING ARTICLE ON "LEARNING…

In this guide to the evaluation of instructionin adult education, the stated purpose is to aid adult school administrators in making purposeful classroom visitations in ongoing programs to improve instruction. The subject areas treated are academic subjects, business education, citizenship education, distributive education, fine arts, music,…

Approximately 60 students have completed the individualized secondary teacher education program at Brigham Young University during its four-semester pilot period. Trainees are required to achieve the program's behavioral objectives which have been arranged in 11 units: administrative aspects of teaching, behavioral objectives, instructional…

This second volume (SP 001 927 is the first volume) contains a list of 818 educational specifications for the development of a comprehensive program of elementary teacher education, as compiled by a consortium of the 12 State Universities of Ohio with support from several cooperating school districts. An introductory chapter delineates the…

The initial phase (1967-1968) of a longitudinal study designed to provide more teachers of the disadvantaged by (1) recruiting education students who have withdrawn from college for academic reasons but have greater scholastic potential than they have demonstrated and (2) modifying teacher education programs to train these individuals as teachers…