An ongoing program designed to meet the educational needs of coronary care nurses in the Seattle area is described; course content for each quarterly session varies according to student requests. Two-week core sessions (ten hours of lecture-discussion) are followed by interim inservice education sessions at the pilot hospitals. (AJ)

To teach first-year medical students to communicate with patients more effectively, a course was designed and evaluated that uses developments in communication technics. The students' goals include identification of doctor-patient interactions, description of their feelings and reactions to the interview, and learning ways of responding in the…

Presents a teaching project which was planned and carried out in an honors course for Grade 12 of a girls' gymnasium. The content of the project deals with the reading of British daily newspapers and magazines, combined with learning the essential characteristics of the British press. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

This essay presents a model for an intensive course in French designed for pupils of approximately age 16. The student devotes himself for two periods of 14 days each, morning and afternoon, exclusively to learning the foreign language. Each intensive phase is followed by half a school year of a language training phase. (Text is in German.)…

Describes the study of electronics as a terminal course in electromagnetism. A lecture-laboratory approach is used with a strong emphasis on practical experience. Outlines the major topics of the lecture program and describes the activities used in the laboratory. (GS)

Describes the use of behavioral objectives, computer programs, concept mastery, and activity flowcharts. Explains the evaluation procedure and enumerates advantages to the student. (GS)

Describes a competency-based instruction (CBI) system in which a student must regularly demonstrate satisfactory understanding or performance of specified competencies in order to proceed to new materials. Reports mastery and timing results suggesting more efficient learning in a CBI system. (Author/GS)

This guide represents the completion of phase one of the curriculum development process at the V. V. Reid Elementary School, a primary school established in 1989 under the sponsorship of Reid Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Columbia, South Carolina. Contents of the guide include a statement of the school's philosophy of education, lists…

This publication focuses on school music programs and music education. The document features information about performance; goals of music education programs; a broader role in the curriculum for music education; the role of contemporary music; and a description of four general music courses designed by teachers. An 18-item bibliography is…

Expressing a communication perspective on teaching public relations, this booklet is designed for instructors of public relations courses. The introduction to the booklet establishes the theoretical grounding of this investigation, namely, the mutual relationship between public relations and communication. The first section explicates the…

Many institutions of higher learning are revising course descriptions to include competencies (statements of objectives) and performance indicators (statements of activities the learner must perform to prove that he/she has learned the material). A course syllabus for "Library Organization and Administration," one of nine courses offered…

Noting that speech instruction as a liberal study must include significant subject matter, rigorous intellectual application, high ethical standards, and responsibility, this paper describes the humanities core course at Allegheny College (Pennsylvania) as providing such a climate for speech instruction. The paper first describes the course goals…

The major program components of the Biology 30 curriculum are outlined in this document. These key elements include: (1) process skills; (2) psychomotor skills; (3) attitudes; and (4) concepts (subject matter). Each of the components has been assigned an emphasis rating (expressed in a percentage) and a priority rating (designated by a ranking of…

The composition segment of a fourth-semester college German course at Bucknell University is described. The segment was based on the beliefs that writing is a process, that meaningful response does improve writing, and that peer editing draws the students directly into the teaching process as they help to shape fellow students' writing at various…