This Exemplary Activities Handbook for grade 1 is one of nine booklets that organize career education activities around subject matter areas. (There is one booklet each for grades K-6, one for grades 7-9, and one for grades 10-12.) The booklet is organized around these subject matter areas: Fine Arts, Guidance, Health and Physical Education,…

This Exemplary Activities Handbook for kindergarten is one of nine booklets that organize career education activities around subject matter areas. (There is one booklet each for grades K-6, one for grades 7-9, and one for grades 10-12.) The booklet is organized around these subject matter areas: Fine Arts, Guidance, Health and Physical Education,…

These Project TEAMS (Techniques and Education for Achieving Managerial Skills) instructional materials consist of five units for use in training independent business owner/managers. The first unit contains materials which deal with management skills relating to personal characteristics of successful business people, knowledge of self and chosen…

Intended to assist vocational teachers in developing and implementing a cluster program in food service occupations, this guide contains sections on cluster organization and implementation and instructional emphasis areas. The cluster organization and implementation section covers goal-based planning and includes a proposed cluster curriculum, a…

This report contains accounts from seven Wisconsin school districts which participated in an incremental improvement project to demonstrate career education methods and procedures. The consortium district reports are from Eau Claire, Kimberly, Madison, Oregon, Shawano, Sheboygan, and Watertown. All presentations follow the same format: (1) major…

PRESENTING AN OUTLINE OF SUGGESTIONS, ACTIVITIES, TEACHING AIDS, AND GUIDELINES FOR EFFECTIVE PROGRAM PLANNING, THIS CURRICULUM GUIDE IS DEVELOPMENTAL, SEQUENTIAL, AND SPIRAL SO THAT EACH SUBJECT AREA IS TAUGHT, REINFORCED, AND ENRICHED THROUGHOUT THE PROGRAM. MAJOR AREAS ARE MOTOR DEVELOPMENT, PERCEPTUAL TRAINING, COGNITIVE SKILLS, SELF HELP,…

This competency-based curriculum guide is designed for a non-laboratory course in home economics for eleventh and twelfth grades. It was developed and field tested by twenty-nine teachers in high schools in West Virginia. The Adult Roles and Functions curriculum is organized in two sections. The teacher's section contains information on teaching…

This course guide is intended for classroom use by teachers of English as a second language (ESL) to Spanish-speaking secondary school students. Each unit offers exercises and activities to facilitate increased proficiency in some aspect of English grammar or usage. The book is prefaced with a rationale to guide the teacher. Topics covered include…

Spatial and temporal factors in the bilingual classroom that can be manipulated to maximize the bilingualism of Spanish-speaking elementary school children (that is, to minimize their lexical code switching) are presented in terms of models. The advantages and disadvantages of the dual language teaching model are compared to those of two…

A social studies unit and student workbook explore the historical geography of the area of Peachtree Street in Atlanta, Georgia. The unit deals with sequent occupance, a type of historical geography in which students study the same area, the changes in culture, and the changing land use in the area during certain time periods. For each period,…

Intended for use as a reference volume by elementary and secondary school administrators, this annotated bibliography is divided into 20 chapters, each containing summaries of from 11 to 18 documents and journal articles (indexed in ERIC) on a topic of current interest to school administrators. The materials annotated were selected to give the…

The study examined the extent to which recent art education concepts are reflected in materials circulated by state departments of education. Project staff members identified ten major concepts: aesthetic and humanistic education, environmental design, interrelated arts, visual literacy, community resource utilization, art education for…

GRADES OR AGES: Grade K-12. SUBJECT MATTER: Language arts. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide has seven sections: 1) listening (K-12); 2) speaking (K-12); 3) reading (K-12); 4) writing (K-12); 5) special areas, including speech, dramatics, debate, creative writing, Latin, Spanish, French, German, journalism, and reading efficiency,…

This second volume of a three-volume final report presents research and evaluation findings of a 3-year project to design, develop, and implement a comprehensive delivery system to meet the career-related information, guidance, and referral needs of home-based adults, those 16 and older neither working nor attending school on a full-time basis.…

Understanding spontaneous speech is a very difficult task for many foreign students. They must be taught to use all the ethnographic cues available to enable them to predict the likely content of a text. They must predict not only the factual content of spoken language but also the interactional structuring. (Author/CFM)