Intended to help educators, especially content area faculty, understand the factors influencing writing and to give specific teaching ideas across the secondary school spectrum, this paper reports a study of current research on writing methods and instructional models to develop a rationale for cross-curricular writing. Following brief discussions…

This module, one in a series of competency-based guidance program training packages, focuses on specific professional and paraprofessional competencies of guidance personnel. Modules in Category C suggest how to conduct, accomplish, or carry out selected career guidance program activities. The purpose of this module is to help career guidance…

This module, one in a series of competency-based guidance program training packages, focuses on specific professional and paraprofessional competencies of guidance personnel. Modules in Category C suggest how to conduct, accomplish, or carry out selected career guidance program activities. The purpose of this module is to help career guidance…

This fourth in a series of ten learning modules on school-community relations is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers skills in making decisions concerning the audience to be served, the phase of the vocational program to be featured, the promotional approach to be utilized, and in planning, designing, organizing, and…

This sixth in a series of ten learning modules on school-community relations is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers competence in arranging for television and radio presentations which explain and promote their vocational programs. The terminal objective for the module is to arrange for a television or radio…

This second in a series of twenty-nine learning modules on instructional execution is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers help in planning for and conducting three classroom discussion techniques: group discussion, panel discussion, and symposium. Introductory sections relate the competencies dealt with here to others…

This fourth in a series of nine learning modules on instructional management is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers skill in adapting or devising, and maintaining a filing system that will most effectively meet their needs. The terminal objective for the module is to maintain a filing system while working in an actual…

This fourth in a series of five learning modules on guidance is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers help in developing the skills which will enable them to plan and present activities which provide students with adequate information on educational and career opportunities. The terminal objective for the module is to…

The Union for Experimenting Colleges and Universities (UECU) was developed as an alternative form of postsecondary education, fostering the development of university without walls programs at a number of institutions and initiating its own undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Its commitment is to personalized, self-directed, lifelong…

The placement and diagnostic tests used in instructional systems designed to be adaptive to the individual learner's characteristics are examined. The necessity of pretesting students before instruction is questioned. According to the author, both the necessity for and the content of the Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) type of pretest…

How do colleges and universities adapt programs of instruction to the changing times? In particular, do teachers receive appropriate recognition from their institutions for their leadership in these matters? The central aim of National Project III, a project of the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, is to elevate the importance…

This booklet of Worksheets for the Career Alert Planning (CAP) program is one of the 14 components (see note) of a set of individualized materials designed to help participants find out about themselves and about the kind of work for which they are suited. In this program, participants become acquainted with occupations that are representative of…

Designed for use as a part of the Work Maturity Skills Training Program, this unit consists of instructional materials dealing with practicing ethical behavior. (The Work Maturity Skills Training Program is a set of individualized competency-based units that are designed to help participants develop the competencies they need to find and retain…

Designed for use as a part of the Work Maturity Skills Training Program, this unit consists of instructional materials dealing with accepting responsibility. (The Work Maturity Skills Training Program is a set of individualized competency-based units that are designed to help participants develop the competencies they need to find and retain…

This competency booklet for individualized competency-based instruction is the second of five in the Job Search Skills package. (Instructor program and guides are available separately as CE 031 965 and 966, the other booklets as CE 031 967-971.) It contains seven operational units related to the job search competency of searching for available…