The document presents an overview of the Human Development Program in terms of its theoretical rationale, objectives, structure, process, and content. The Human Development Program (HDP) emphasizes an affective curricular approach developed by psychologists. The booklet describes how elementary school teachers can help children assume…

Articles presented in this monograph form a work which characterizes career education as a curriculum component that requires a team effort on the part of teachers, counselors, and administrators if it is to work in the public schools. The first article outlines some specific strategies which teachers can use to make career education an integral…

The purpose of the book is to define individualized foreign language instruction and to consider problems commonly associated with its implementation and management. It is divided into three parts: (1) Theoretical Considerations, (2) Management Considerations and (3) Teaching Considerations. Part One considers an overview of individualized…

The document contains the curriculum guides for Grades 4, 5, and 6 developed by Project CHANGE (Concepts of Handicaps and Attitudes Need Guidance and Education), a curriculum designed to improve children's attitudes toward the disabled. The curriculum for Grade 4 focuses on acceptance of self and others (handicapped and nonhandicapped), physiology…

Written for teachers, coordinators, and supervisors, this manual describes the structural content of Project SELEP (Survival Skills in English Learning Experience Program). It indicates areas of concern in planning, establishing, and evaluating classes emphasizing survival skills for daily living appropriate for the foreign born adult in an…

Sample lesson ideas are provided for 23 high-enrollment, secondary vocational programs in the areas of agricultural, distributive, office, health, occupational home economics, and trade and industrial education. They focus on specific skills in mathematics, reading, writing, and oral communication appropriate to and embedded in the content of…

This curriculum guide offers a complete program for teaching pre-employment job-seeking skills that can be implemented in the secondary or postsecondary school. It contains 15 units on job search methods and job survival skills, divided into 40 lesson plans that teachers can use in the classroom. The material is intended to be integrated into…

This guide presents the "minimum teaching essentials" published by the New York City Board of Education for grade 6. Covered are the following subject areas: (1) art; (2) bilingual education; (3) career education; (4) health education; (5) library media; (6) mathematics; (7) music; (8) physical education; (9) science; and (10) social…

Part of a series devoted to identifying and evaluating strategies which vocational education administrators and instructors can use at the secondary student, teacher, or administrator level to eliminate sex stereotyping and sex bias in vocational education programs, this simulation activity involves students in real-life situations requiring…

The guide presents 26 lessons for use by fifth grade classroom teachers as they develop and implement legal education programs. Objectives of the program are to foster understanding of and respect for law, help children understand why rules are necessary, and increase knowledge about the American legal system. It is suggested that the lessons be…

One of twenty course guides in the Community Living Skills Guide for the College for Living series, this document provides guidelines and workbook activities for the course, General Experience Course for the Lower Functioning Person. The series of courses for developmentally disabled adults is intended to supplement residential programs and to aid…

One of twenty course guides in the Community Living Skills Guide for the College for Living series, this document provides guidelines and workbook activities for the course, Reading I. The series of courses for developmentally disabled adults is intended to supplement residential programs and to aid in orienting institutionalized persons to…

One of twenty course guides in the Community Living Skills Guide for the College for Living series, this guide provides guidelines and workbook activities for the course Reading II. The series of courses for developmentally disabled adults is intended to supplement residential programs and to aid in orienting institutionalized persons to eventual…

This teacher's guide and one hundred lesson plans are an adult performance level (APL) curriculum to assist adult basic education (ABE) teachers in switching to a competency based adult education program which integrates academic and life skills concepts into one lesson. The teacher's guide describes the project need, product, method of…

Designed for use in grades K-12, this teachers' guide weaves selected cultural information from four Plains Indian Tribes into teaching concepts that can be used in language arts, math, reading, social studies, and science. Introductory material covers the influence of property, sovereignty, doctrine of discovery, treaties, tribal agencies, and…