This syllabus was developed in response to the requirement in the New York State Board of Regents Action Plan for improving elementary and secondary library and information skills. The skills, taught by library media specialists and classroom teachers, are to be integrated into regular courses and cover all subject areas in order to afford…

Planned for an eighth-grade classroom, this unit plan, consisting of 19 lesson plans on the topic of Abraham Lincoln, is based upon the fulfillment of 17 unit objectives. Each daily lesson plan specifies the following: lesson theme, learner objective, needed prerequisites, new vocabulary or terms, learning set/motivation, presentation of new…

The study investigated the effectiveness of and attitudes toward two delivery systems (an enrichment pull-out program and a self-contained classroom) for gifted/talented instruction in Southwest Allen County, Indiana. The effects on fifth-grade students (N=38) enrolled in the program and sixth-grade students (N=45) who had experienced the program…

This guide was written to help young women find their place in the world and move toward that place. Organized in two parts, the manual includes directions for the instructor and handouts for students (in eighth and ninth grade). Part 1 contains descriptions of activities and suggestions for using the activities with small groups of young women,…

This booklet, written with the beginning investor in mind, will help readers set clear-cut financial goals and develop a savings and investment program for achieving them. It is suitable for personal use by adults or for classroom use in junior high through adult consumer education classes. The booklet provides information on a variety of savings…

New York State is placing a new emphasis on Canada as part of their new social studies program. This reflects the increased importance attached to a global approach to education and also a recognition of Canada's importance to the United States. This guide is designed to help teachers make sense of, and to teach, understandings found in the grade…

This teacher resource manual is a support document developed to assist teachers responsible for implementing the new (1989) Social Studies 20 and Social Studies 23 courses in Alberta, Canada. Following a brief introduction, the first section of the manual contains information on teaching social studies, discussing goals and objectives, teaching…

Through a wide variety of activities, this manual integrates the teaching of English as a second language with the beginning students' experiences and the development of their linguistic, cognitive and conceptual skills. Emphasis is on individual skills and listening and speaking activities. Activities and materials move from simple to complex…

A report on higher education in Kentucky is presented, with attention to governance, funding, tuition, financial aid, staffing and salary comparisons for administrators and faculty, enrollment, degree production, cooperation, and quality issues. The statutory organization of the Kentucky Council on Higher Education is specified, along with the…

This conference report contains 5 addresses and 29 reports on the general theme of the school library as a center for lifelong learning. Submitted by librarians throughout the world, the reports reflect theoretical as well as practical perspectives, and include the following topics: (1) establishing, developing, and evaluating library resource…

A historical mode of inquiry to inform public policy discussions on accountability and economic efficiency in the public schools is presented. "Payment of results," a method of accountability instituted in the English elementary education system during the last-half of the 19th century, which was based upon governmental grants dependent…

An assessment of 14 school-university partnerships in the National Network for Educational Renewal (NNER) is provided with a focus on achievement of partnership goals. Partnership goals include simultaneous school improvement and educator education. Methodology involved site observation and interviews with 126 school district and university…

Prior research on the information-seeking process, conducted by Kuhlthau in the school library setting, led to the identification of a six-stage model of the search process, describing cognitive and affective symptoms commonly experienced by library users. The present study was designed to determine whether that model is generalizable to other…

South Carolina's Guide to Child Development addresses three domains of learning: psychomotor, cognitive, and affective. The first unit of the guide, Child Development I, concerns the processes of understanding prenatal development, caring for an infant, providing care for children between 1 and 6 years of age, and delivering care for the…

Using a pamphlet format, the Ad Hoc Rural Development Committee of the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development formulated a working agenda that addresses the challenges and opportunities of rural development research and extension programming. The agenda establishes the need for emphasizing rural development in the Northeast, and presents…