The product of two summer institutes to prepare teachers and administrators for school integration, this report contains a resource manual on "Discipline Standards in Integrated Schools." For full abstract of institute proceedings, see UD 009 479. For other resource manuals, see UD 009 480, UD 009 482, UD 009 483, and UD 009 484. (KG)

This paper describes an experimental approach to teaching PSSC Physics by using, whenever possible and proper, behavioral and social analogies as illustrations for physical concepts. The report is based on several years of use of this experimental program. The developers consider the preliminary findings to be encouraging. Student enrollment has…

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…

The problem of how multimedia institutions should choose specific media for various learning tasks is explored in this informally-written paper. Several approaches to the problem are reviewed and rejected as unsatisfactory solutions. The steps described in Briggs'"Handbook of Procedures for the Design of Instruction" are briefly reviewed…

This report summarizes the activities of Great Britain's National Council for Educational Technology (NCET) for the term of its existence--April 1967 to September 1973. The council's aim was to promote, develop, and assist innovation in educational methodology. NCET's activities are summarized under the workings of its seven problem-centered…

The purpose of this quarterly newsletter is to provide information, communication, and exchange of ideas between people offering Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) courses. The instructional system, an alternative to the traditional university-college lecture-recitation method of teaching, emphasizes a personalized, self-paced, mastery…

FLUIDMOD is an interactive program for student practice and instruction in the medical treatment of fluid and electrolyte problems in human patients. Previous instructional programs in this field have been based on teaching numerous rules applicable to particular problems, which must then be applied by the student to actual patients who supply…

Provides details about a program that allows junior and senior journalism majors to meet and interview such journalists as Walter Cronkite, Ben Bradlee, Harry Reasoner, and the editors of "Time" magazine during a unique one-week traveling seminar. (RL)

Students' fascination with sports can help turn them on to economics--or any other subject they might otherwise consider "dull." (Author)

It is suggested that the modern pentathlon (riding, fencing, shooting, running, swimming) can be adapted for use in the schools. (MJB)

Hatha yoga is a valuable addition to an individualized physical education curriculum. (MJB)

Explores the testing technique of practical extemporaneous speech finals for students enrolled in the fundamentals course and emphasizes the objectives, procedures and evaluation criteria for such an approach. (MH)

Explains how Cherry Creek (Colorado) schools effectively used Chapter 2 funds provided thorugh the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act. Because these monies must be spent to supplement, not supplant, a school system's activities, the district devised two kinds of grants (minigrants and "skunk-works" grants) that fulfill Chapter 2…

Suggests that an attempt be made to improve and streamline the grammatical terminology in German pedagogy. Proposes five processes by which this can be done, including retaining established terms that denote grammatical phenomena identical in English and German and replacement of pedagogically unsound, overlapping, vague, or inaccurate terms. (SED)