This teachers manual provides three instructional units (Chemical Dependency, A Disease; The Family; and Intervention and Recovery) for chemical dependency education at the high school level. The history, objectives, and teaching philosophy of the program are discussed briefly, and a course syllabus outline and audiovisual aids list by section are…

The author discusses a possible framework for the development of continuing education through the production of learning materials at the local level, developing models, and the leadership role of the Open University in continuing education. (Author/BP)

Provides lists of ways that principals and teachers have found or developed to use time, space, things, and other resources creatively. Focusing on such efforts is one way of changing the role of the principal from an authority position to a peer position. (Author/IRT)

The Library Learning Resources Center is an instructional unit of the Agricultural Technical Institute (Ohio State University, College of Agriculture) which helps students prepare for technical careers by providing current, immediately useful information in agricultural and related subjects. (Author/MW)

Materials for a humanities course on America in the 1930's are listed and described. (JH)

This publication reviews empirical research in an effort to: (1) help educators improve their understanding of self-concept development; and (2) identify effective strategies for developing positive student self-concepts. An introduction and a brief section on definitions is followed by a discussion of early (pre-school) self-concept development.…

The Louisiana Slide Library is an extensive collection of slides, lectures, and tapes designed for use in the arts, the humanities, social and ethnic studies, languages, home economics, careers, crafts, and special education. This bibliography lists these slide sets and indicates the grade level intended for each set and the number of slides in…

Designed to complement the traditional textbook treatment of Columbus, the lessons in this packet utilize recent research, primary sources, and active student involvement. The first two lessons, "Columbus: The Man and the Myth" and "Columbus and the Known World: How Much Did He Really Know?," (D. Beal) provide students with…

Elementary educators have realized in recent years the life-long importance of developing students' economic decision-making skills. Many now include economic education in the curriculum. This annotated bibliography was developed to support and encourage these efforts and to bring to educators' attention some of the excellent materials available…

This handbook presents a course developed to provide a national perspective for attorneys who represent state and local child support enforcement agencies operating under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act. The introduction provides an overview of the child support problem in the United States, citing causes and effects of the problem and…

This staff development resource guide provides listings of instructional television and radio broadcasts related to major areas of the Total Teaching Act in South Carolina's Program for Effective Teaching (PET). Television program topics include: administration; adult education; the arts; career education; certificate-renewal credit courses;…

This manual, designed to assist professionals in health and health-related agencies, offers guidance for planning a health communication program about cancer based on social marketing and other principles as well as the experiences of National Cancer Institute staff and other practitioners. The six chapters are arranged by sequentially ordered…

This document lists 48 subject bibliographies produced by the Canadian Centre for Information and Documentation on Archives (CCIDA) from 1987 to 1990. Listed chronologically by CCIDA bibliography number, each entry provides the name of the author, the title, publication date, and number of pages. Topics covered include authentication of archival…

This document consists of the three issues of this newsletter published in 1990. Designed to assist teachers at the secondary and college level in designing and presenting instruction on the topic of astronomy, typical articles in this newsletter include: (1) "Introductory Astronomy Glossary," which presents the definitions of 42 different terms;…