A legislative history shows the various stages in the process of enacting laws. In order to follow the legislative process the student is asked to select a topic of interest and research the various steps as a bill becomes law. Then he is given descriptions of some current and standard reference works which will help him find information on the…

This handbook provides the basic material needed to guide reading tutors in how to teach appropriate reading skills to children, both inside and outside the classroom. It is one of a series of three handbooks developed for the Right-to-Read tutor-training program; the others are the "Tutor-Trainers' Resource Handbook" (CS 002 047) and…

Intended as part of a continuing commercial art program, the basic course outlined provides the high school student with a core of skills and knowledge common to many of the commercial art jobs. The first part of the course is designed to acquaint the exploratory student with some of the procedures and skills required. Units 1 through 5 cover…

This book is an actual school year's work, written by three teaming, open classroom teachers in grades one, five, and six. It is designed for teachers of grades k-6 who are working right in the classroom with their students, for school administrators involved in curriculum development, and for parents expecting the best tangible results from an…

The purposes of the basic rhetorically-focused writing module presented in this document are to aid classroom instruction and to furnish a model of ideas and simplified techniques for developing other writing modules. Contents of this document are an introduction, a discussion of the journal as a writing form, an outline overview of the model, and…

The document presents a guide for teaching insurance protection based on the needs of students in the South Pacific. It is presented as a unit of study within the area of consumer education. Suggestions for unit objectives, student activities, time allocation, teaching methods, and reference materials are offered. A lesson plan is outlined based…

The field tested sixth grade instructional unit was designed to explore learning in its broadest sense, involving the learners in activities dealing with what learning is, where they learn, and how they learn. The seven lessons deal with defining learning and knowing, exploring learning experiences both in and out of school, learning as it is…

The primary purpose of the field tested unit is to assist the instructor in giving specific training in the area of self-awareness to the special education student. The rationale for a career education-special education program is discussed, followed by a project overview. Each of the six units (physical self, emotional self, familial self, social…

The document provides a systematic analysis of curriculum in marketing, focusing on the design and evaluation of a vocational course in the distributive education curriculum. The core course, entitled basic marketing, was selected because marketing competencies are essential to every distributive education student. The following areas are…

This teacher guide was developed to assist teachers of elementary children in their preparation to teach some lessons on rat control. The overall objectives include determining the level of student understanding about rats, developing student attitudes toward rats, developing the student's ability to identify the rat's weapons, identifying those…

This study compares long-term retention from audio-tutorial instruction with common lecture-discussion retention. The population of the experiment was limited to students in two sections of a teacher education methods course. Through the use of a univariate statistical analysis in the framework of a split-plot factorial design, no significant…

This issue of "The English Record," devoted largely to the teaching of composition, includes such articles as "Writing in the Reading Class"; "A Sequence of Writing Tasks for a Composition Elective for Juniors and Seniors"; "An Inquiry into the Composing Process"; "A Spin-off from Kenneth Koch's 'Wishes, Lies, and Dreams'"; "Interdisciplinary…

This monograph contains 47 lesson ideas that elementary and secondary English teachers may find useful for classroom activities. Each item describes the aim of the lesson and the grade level and provides suggestions on how to carry out the lesson. Some of the activities suggested include "Advertising a Play,""Write Your Own Obituary,""Studying the…

Various lesson plans for museum instruction were tested on fifth grade children of fair and high intelligence in an attempt to improve upon the "accepted method" of teaching, which was thought to be better suited to the child of low intelligence than to his abler classmates. The lesson plans tested were: (1) the accepted method…

To determine the value of prepared lesson plans on instruction in vocational agriculture, 12 randomly selected Iowa high schools with approved vocational agriculture programs were randomly divided into two groups of six including a control group and a treatment group. Prepared lesson plans provided the only variance in instruction. Two meetings…