This guide to a quinmester workshop course in creative writing emphasizes both content and style. Short stories, poems, plays, and informal prose are the literary genres involved. Performance objectives, rationale, learning activities, field trips and resource personnel, and lists of student and teacher resources are provided. (DB)

Forty-seven elective secondary level social studies courses are described in this catalog. The underlying overall philosophy of the program is to recognize the basic worth of the individual and to help each student reach his potential. Four kinds of affective and cognitive objectives essential to continuing growth are emphasized: inquiry skills,…

Prepared by the vocational education division of a state department of education and compiled by industrial arts educators, this resource guide provides a conceptual basis for the elementary teacher using industrial arts as a means of introducing children to industrial processes and orienting them to the physical and material world. Included in…

This resource bibliography with over 500 descriptive annotations on Canada, a product of a conference on Canadian Studies held at the University of Maine, Orono, in September, 1969, is designed to make teachers of social studies and other fields at both the elementary and secondary levels more aware of the variety of available teaching materials…

Guidelines and procedures which Texas Agricultural Extension Service personnel may use in working with local people in planning and carrying out county programs are provided in this handbook. The program building process is based on the philosophy that people have both the desire and ability to plan and carry out educational programs. The handbook…

This Materials List is in three parts: (1) scrounge list, (2) free and inexpensive materials, and (3) supplies and materials to be purchased. This list is designed to help teachers in setting up classrooms for children based on the open approach to education. While many of the items included in Part 3 may impose too great a burden on budgets for…

This UNESCO source book on teaching physics in schools provides a synthesis of views and policies prevalent throughout the world with respect to physics education. The book's contents are contributed by educators from several nations who have been able to give an international outlook in the discussion of various aspects of physics education. The…

This document, composed of 3 separated papers under 1 cover, is a case study of 1 institution's attempt to develop a system to permit optimum utilization of limited resources. The part of the system discussed here assumes that the institution has already made the decisions as to what it can do well and has to some extent allocated such resources…

The 80-page handbook contains information activities, and resources for educators, students and communities, focusing on a model workshop based on experiences with over 300 workshops on sex equality in education throughout the U.S. Workshop information is practical and includes the problem as well as coping techniques for counselors with specific…

Over 20 ideas for planning art programs for grades 1 through 6 are included in this planning guide. Introductory comments stress the individuality of children and caution art teachers not to judge by adult standards and not to direct lessons step-by-step or show how things should be drawn. Outdoor sketching is recommended as a way to develop…

Following the introductory section, which discusses various aspects of the Job Corps Program and the Job Corps Curriculum, this guide describes educational materials that the Job Corps Program considers useful in developing basic reading, mathematic, and related skills. Materials for the two curriculum areas, reading and mathematics, are described…

Preparing Educational Training Consultants (PETC) is a series of cumulative and interrelated instructional materials including training strategies and procedures plus participant instructional materials that can be used as resource materials for training and consulting purposes. It is a package of resource materials that carries with it a change…

This compilation presents over 300 resumes of instructional materials for industrial arts education which have appeared in "Abstracts of Instructional and Research Materials in Vocational and Technical Education" (AIM/ARM) between 1972 and 1975. The resumes cover a broad range of fields and occupations and are arranged in ascending order according…

This resource manual presents an overview of the Manpower and Community College Training Program (MCCCP) developed in cooperation with Oregon State University and the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. Described are the processes related to the development of competency statements and evaluative criteria, program operation (instruction),…

This booklet summarizes data on the status of planning, programming, budgeting systems (PPBS) in the United States, based on a survey conducted by the Indiana State Department of Public Instruction in June 1975. Data are presented on a state-by-state basis for 45 states; the states of Hawaii, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, and Tennessee did not respond…