Offers suggestions for types and content of curriculum guides as well as for curriculum use and evaluation. (Author/WD)

When teachers prepare their own curriculum outlines, crucial issues come to the surface, promoting examination of what teachers believe about themselves, about children, and about teaching. (Author/MLF)

A call for a curricular renaissance wherein certain strategies will encourage good curriculum development. (Editor)

The report summarizes the results of an analysis of curriculum guides for the mentally retarded, and sets forth general recommendations related to the development of public school curricula for mentally retarded students. (SBH)

Individualization of instruction represents a conscious effort to reach desired goals for students. (Author/MLF)

The small school system of Genoa City, Wisconsin, developed a comprehensive curriculum to guide daily classroom instruction. Steps included selecting a textbook series before beginning the curriculum revision process and individualizing the guide by highlighting each teacher's areas of accountability. (MLF)

Described is a method of writing which could be used in curriculum guides when an emphasis on affective outcomes is desired. (RM)

Special educators and horticultural staff in rural Cherokee County, Alabama, collaborated on a curriculum guide intended to promote independent functioning at the job entry level. The guide, which covers such areas as work related skills, adapted equipment, and sales, has been used by mildly handicapped and nonhandicapped students as well. (CL)

Reviews literature syllabuses recommended by eight examining boards in England for in-depth study by high school students. Findings indicated that syllabuses are conservative in nature, do not include much modern literature, and generally include fiction which either portrays women as unimportant or does not portray women at all. (DB)

The monograph is intended to provide teachers of profoundly mentally handicapped students in South Carolina with a guide to ten existing curricula which were reviewed by the State Department of Education Consultant for the profoundly mentally handicapped. Usually included for each guide is title, information on curriculum components and…

Suggests that public relations programs be developed through the expansion, modification and unification of current speech communication coursework, and provides a curriculum for implementing such a program. (MH)

This handbook, which suggests resources for curriculum development, is designed to assist schools in meeting the curriculum requirements of Vermont's Public School Approval and to be a resource for local districts developing curriculum. Sections are represented on: (1) establishing the necessity for curriculum revision and/or development; (2)…

A general framework is presented for the Sheridan School District K-12 social studies curriculum. The guide is arranged into three sections: rationale, goals and objectives, and scope and sequence. The rationale section emphasizes that students should develop awareness of individual rights and responsibilities, cope with the problems of our…

This scope and sequence document explains the organization of secondary-level courses (grades 10-12) in Alberta, Canada. An incomplete sample framework of the scope and sequence of the 10th grade Canadian geography course is provided. The shorthand notation system commonly used in all curriculum documents in the Province of Alberta is explained.…

Discusses the issue that teachers in the Caribbean neglect the education of their pupils to prepare them for examinations, and offers an outline of the elements involved in the development of a syllabus that will educate pupils in the fullest sense, and from which the examination will follow. (Author/AM)