The curriculum guide for teaching social sciences to mentally gifted children in grades 1 through 3 includes information about the interrelationships among individuals, broad understanding of the institutions created by human beings for their own guidance and control, and comprehension of the interactions between human beings and the elements of…

Designed as a practical guide for teachers, this handbook presents ways of introducing drama and movement into secondary school curricula. A basic program for a movement class is offered, based on three objectives: one's own movement, secondary or underlying motives, and the balance of freedom and discipline. In the first section of the book,…

This book contends that systematic oral and written exercises enable students to overcome many difficulties encountered in writing English. The first chapter is a general discussion of the teaching of composition today. The second section describes an experiment in oral composition drills in a seventh-grade class. The third section describes the…

The teaching guide for distributive education, grade levels 11 and 12, was developed by distributive education majors at Delaware State College. It contains five lesson plans for each of the instructional areas of: (1) the functions of marketing and distribution, (2) fundamental skills, (3) product or service technology, (4) social skills and…

The Teacher's guide contains seven lesson plans integrating slides and transparencies with other class activities to provide knowledge and understanding of the newspaper. The lesson topics are: the four purposes of the newspaper, fact and opinion, the front page, basic structure of news story, the blind ad and the public ad, the novelty lead, and…

This volume on reading and teaching the novel contains six articles: "Close Reading: The Novel in the Senior School" by S. E. Lee discusses the advantages of rereading and analytical reading in high school; "Teaching 'The Great Gatsby'" by David Mallick discusses the difficulties of teaching this novel and provides a lesson plan; "The Operation of…

In the first two chapters of this study, the author provides an overview of the role of television in education, and reviews some of the research carried out in the field. Following chapters deal with foreign language teaching, the teaching of English as a second language, teacher training, the teaching of English in Israel, a contrastive analysis…

This handbook for teachers contains language lessons for young children. Through sequencing and feedback, the program uses a direct method of teaching and learning standard English. It is an expository approach, in which progress is based on performance, rather than on the knowledge of rules. Each unit is organized so that language development and…

The fourth in a series of six volumes on leadership training for noncommissioned Army officers (NCOs), this document contains lesson plans for military operations involving telephone and radio systems, weapons, and tactics. (See also documents AC 006 904, AC 006 905, AC 006 906, AC 006 908, and AC 006 909.) (Author/LY)

Prepared by a committee of teachers and administrators, this guide is for teacher use in developing programs and activities designed to aid students in grades K-8 and their families in becoming intelligent consumers. The materials included have been developed to provide resource information which will contribute to the skills, knowledge,…

In May of 1969, the Broward County Board of Public Instruction (Migrant Education Center) made available this guide to enable teachers to increase listening abilities of elementary school students. Although research studies show that listening can and should be taught, it is pointed out that listening instruction for most children is an incidental…

The guide provides fundamental principles of lipreading instruction and 38 sequential formal lessons in lipreading for use at the junior high or older level. It stresses that lipreading training aims to develop the understanding of words, phrases, and sentences rather than the study of exact lip movements. The lipreading ability of the child is…

This book provides material to design and carry out a health science program at the elementary level with outcomes which are clearly defined and measurably effective. Chapter one describes health problems that justify the school health program. In chapters two and three the processes of curriculum and the sources of data that are basic to…

Course designers and teachers of English as a second or foreign language need a pedagogical grammar, that is, a collection of linguistic statements about English which specifies the linguistic behaviors that an ESL/EFL learner will need to acquire and which can easily be used in the preparation of materials and lessons. Pedagogical grammars…

This book, divided into three parts, discusses the principles and practice of functional movement in terms of the full range of educational gymnastics. It can be used for elementary school, high school, and college students, since teachers can modify or extend the suggestions according to the experience and ability of the classes. Part one,…