Designed for use with the teacher's guide to the Spanish as a Second Language unit, this supplement and ditto packet includes visual aids and worksheets to help the teacher carry out the instructional and assessment activities. The illustrations are designed to help stimulate oral language and conceptual development. These visual materials…

Bilingual teachers and program directors of northern New Mexico attended a workshop at New Mexico Highlands University to examine the curriculum designed to meet the needs of students within the bilingual bicultural setting. Participants were asked to redefine curriculum within the "workshop" setting. Consultants assisted the group in…

The Pennsylvania Comprehensive Reading/Communication Arts Plan (PCRP) is a flexible guide designed to advance student competence in reading, listening, and oral and written expression, and to nurture positive attitudes toward reading and the effective use of language. Intended for use on every educational level, preschool through adult, the PCRP…

This is the second of a series of publications developed by the Massachusetts Dissemination Project to promote greater exchange and sharing of information and resources among educational organizations, service providers, and client groups. This volume is an annotated listing of Massachusetts Educational Television (MET) video cassettes, which are…

The learning program described is primarily for adults working at entry-level clerical jobs who do not have the language arts, problem solving, or interpersonal skills they need for advancement. The program is suitable for adult continuing education courses, inservice training by business, and educational advancement courses sponsored by community…

Presented is a curriculum guide for educable mentally retarded pupils in grades seven through twelve. Summarized are objectives for the junior high level (including personal and social adjustment) and the senior high level (such as recreational and leisure time skills). Goals, activities, and suggested topics for experience units are listed for…

Centered around a summer theatre theme, the summer migrant program provided each child with a situation in which he could escape his normal role and fulfill his latent capabilities through entry into some character of a play. Thereby, each "performer" realized his unique abilities and found in himself a new source of self-confidence and…

This curriculum guide presents career education material in the form of learning stations, which are individualized, independent skill- or content- oriented activities, that can be used by elementary school teachers to provide opportunities for pupils to use a skill or acquire an ability. Objectives, directions for completion, materials required,…

These materials, developed for upper elementary and junior high school students, focus on a selected core of population learning objectives. Included are 24 self-contained student activities designed to be integrated into the existing curriculum. The activities relate to population concepts that can be investigated through mathematics, science,…

Affording flexibility to the instructor, the fifth-grade career education unit in social studies and language arts contains a description of its design, an overview, and an instructional sequence of 14 lessons. Lesson titles are: paths to occupational preparation; paths some workers take; paths to possible careers; tickets to success; success and…

A project in Washington, D.C., used classroom radio as a language arts tool to solve some of the classroom problems (i.e., lack of materials dealing with ghetto children, classroom discipline problems, and the inability of those unable to speak standard English to learn to read and write) which prevent disadvantaged, dialect-speaking children from…

The focus of this study was to determine which type of curriculum--child adaptive or book oriented--would be most successful in raising the scores of low-income inner-city black children on the language arts sections of standardized achievement tests. Eight teachers, four using a book-oriented curriculum and four the other, were selected from a…

Classroom management of educable retardates is discussed; sample schedules for elementary classrooms are provided. Unit plans for readiness, primary, and intermediate levels cover the following: topical areas, communications, mathematics, physical education and perceptual motor training activities, and recurring life situations. Also, holiday…

This curriculum guide for elective, non-graded English courses contains general objectives in literature, composition, language, listening, and speaking as well as recommending texts, activities, and recordings for each of 37 courses offered in such diverse areas of study as Utopian Literature, Mythology, Poetry Analysis, Development of the Drama,…

Units contained in this second volume of a spiral curriculum guide for English (See also TE 002 061.) are (1) An Insight into the Writing Process--Composition, 7-12; (2) A Program for Culturally Different, Underachieving, Low I.Q., Seventh Grade Students ("an approach to English conceived for the modern black American"); (3) Seventh Grade Program…