This handbook is focused directly on training possibilities to meet the dollar needs of older persons. Part I consists of a course of study designed specifically for persons seeking a supplemental income through a small, possibly home-based, business enterprise. Part II suggests a cooperative plan with local agencies or groups, particularly the…

This bulletin lists addresses of publishers and distributors of audiovisual instructional materials in Spanish in the United States and Latin America. Sources are listed in four categories: (1) federal sources of materials, information on materials, names of resource people, programs, and proposal guidelines concerning the Spanish speaking; (2)…

This curriculum guide, reflecting the recommendations of a statewide conference on civics held in 1965, offers a course of study to help students not only understand civics, but hopefully to motivate them toward future participation in the political process. A skills development chart is provided in order to determine tentative grade placement…

This document contains speeches and notes of workshop participants assembled to discuss the planning of Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology. The workshop was mainly concerned with learning resource centers, college student facilities, and planning for the future. Thirty-three selections cover such topics as appraisal of college development,…

Fifth grade students compare and evaluate their attitudes, values, and concepts regarding the interrelatedness of man, his social, cultural, and bio physical environment, and examine decisions, plans, and actions affecting environmental quality. The purpose of this interdisciplinary curriculum guide is to combine text material with the wealth of…

The Report of the First Working Committee of the 1972 Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages focuses on the interrelationship of culture and language. A discussion on teaching another culture and on sociocultural aspects of foreign-language study comprises the first major section of the "Report." The second part presents short…

The social studies resource unit and student readings for fifth grade pupils present the main idea that America is a heterogeneous society composed of different racial, religious, cultural, and ethnic groups who have continued the struggle to gain equal rights and opportunities. Pupils discover where immigrants came from, why they came to America,…

This long-range system entails the development of programs in the areas of educational goals and objectives, accounting and budgeting, and curriculum design. Ongoing programs of implementation and evaluation are an important feature. (DLG)

This quinmester course of study for grades 7 through 12 examines the nature and causes of prejudice in a psychological, sociological, and biological frame of reference. Emphasis is upon discovering the patterns of prejudice and discrimination. Activity units require the students to investigate prejudice by inquiring affectively and cognitively…

An analysis of how and why people behave toward each other as they do is the focus of this quinmester, elective course for grades 10 through 12. It includes group dynamics, ways of communicating with people effectively, problems of interpersonal relationships, conflict and adjustment, value systems, prejudice, and decision making on a group and…

The curriculum overview, intended for secondary teachers, describes the general objectives, methodology, and units of the Wingspread project. Goals of the project are to prepare individuals to function in a complex society; to promote academic and social development through personal and direct involvement with problems in a metropolitan society;…

Focusing on the Southeastern American Indian cultures, this Native American resource guide is designed for use in the elementary and secondary schools of the East Baton Rouge Parish and is a product of a 1975 Indian Advisory Committee composed of Indian parents, teachers, and staff members. Objectives of these materials require the Indian student,…

This workshop provided a meeting place for 35 secondary-school educators and resource leaders to share concerns, ideas, methodologies, and content in the teaching of global studies. The purpose was to bring together teachers from the social science and natural science departments to develop plans to integrate their respective departments for the…

The teacher's guide provides objectives, goals, learning activities, resources, teaching techniques, student bibliographies, and other sources helpful to teachers in developing, planning, and implementing juvenile justice education programs in the social studies classroom. The first section of the guide examines the nature of juvenile crime, goals…

This third volume of a three-volume final report contains appendixes related to the 3-year project to design, develop, and implement a comprehensive delivery system to meet the career-related information, guidance, and referral needs of home-based adults, those 16 and older neither working nor attending school on a full-time basis. Appendix A…