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Teaching Plans for Creating Student Interest in Consumer Education
Kavathas, Sandra – Illinois Teacher of Home Economics, 1978
Presents two lesson plans for a consumer education unit and the questionnaire used to survey student needs, attitudes, and concerns in consumer education. Lesson objectives were to help students determine their own needs and attitudes toward consumer education and money management and to evaluate a tentative consumer education syllabus. (MF)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Consumer Education, Course Objectives, Educational Needs
Teaching Pupils of Lower Ability: Attitudes in the Classroom.
Buckby, Michael – Audio-Visual Language Journal, 1979
Discusses the importance of clear objectives, pleasant learning atmosphere, and positive attitudes in the second language classroom handling low-ability students. A student questionnaire form is appended. (AM)
Descriptors: Course Objectives, Language Ability, Language Attitudes, Language Instruction
The Development and Evaluation of a Curriculum Document for a Course in Business Communication.
Johnson, Tanya – 1987
A description is provided of the development of a course in business communication for office administration majors at Evergreen Valley College (EVC) in California. The steps involved in the development of the course are explained, including: (1) a review of the educational and business literature on business communication; (2) a review of current…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Business Education, Community Colleges, Course Content
A Handbook of Resources for New Instructors at UTK from the Learning Research Center.
Humphreys, W. Lee, Ed.; Wickersham, Barbara, Ed. – 1987
Suggestions for graduate teaching assistants (TA) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, are offered. Information is provided on: the TA as a university employee, the instructor as a teacher/adviser, course management, classroom and evaluation concerns, and teaching resources. Definitions are offered for the graduate teaching assistant,…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Ancillary School Services, Annotated Bibliographies, College Instruction
Aims and Choices in Development Education.
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Robinson, Roger – Geographical Education, 1990
Discusses an investigation of how British secondary school geography teachers' attitudes and values influence their choices of objectives, content, and teaching methods. Focuses on approaches to development issues. Uses cluster analysis to summarize results. Notes the constraining influence of having to prepare students for public examinations.…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cluster Analysis, Correlation, Course Content
A Comparative Study of the Current Situation on Teaching about World War II in Japanese and American Classrooms.
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Barth, James L. – International Journal of Social Education, 1992
Compares questionnaire results sent to elementary and secondary school teachers in Indiana and Japan. Surveys how and what is taught about World War II. Reports teachers in the United States concentrate more on Europe, Pearl Harbor, and fascism, whereas Japanese teachers are more concerned with Pacific theater. Concludes Japanese teach peace…
Descriptors: Asian History, Comparative Analysis, Course Content, Course Objectives
Steps to Developing a Curriculum for Vocational Agriculture.
Crawford, Ronald – 1984
This guide consists of materials for use in developing a vocational agriculture curriculum. Addressed in the individual sections of the guide are the following topics: reviewing program objectives for vocational agriculture; reviewing program coding and taxonomy areas; reviewing community needs with school and advisory committees and recommending…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Agricultural Education, Budgeting, Classification