This exploratory piece is intended to set the stage for an ongoing conversation about Open Educational Resources (OER). The current OER landscape has hundreds of repositories and thousands of curated guides and lists for finding OER--few of which "talk" to each other behind the scenes, resulting in separate and often redundant resources…

Teacher mentors of first-year teachers provided insight into those practices they viewed as essential for their success in the mentoring role. Specifically, they were queried about teacher involvement/support, staff development, administrative support and resource materials. Almost all of the mentor teachers believed a teacher mentoring program…

As part of the Harlandale Independent School District career education program, a resource speaker's guide was compiled to aid the teachers in the discussion of a particular profession. All the businesses listed can be arranged according to work clusters, work areas, and contact persons. The guide breaks down the information into three columns:…

The purpose of the media resources handbook is the identification and description of diversified instructional aids in the area of career education that are available to teachers through the career resource center at Fort Worth, Texas. Many of the resources are to be used directly in the occupations class in the middle school; however, the…

This document describes Texas' natural resources and suggests ways to correlate conservation instruction into the existing curriculum. Resources discussed include: 1) soil (soil formation; properties of soils; soil survey, soil use in agriculture; soils and the state economy, land value; specific soil resources); 2) air (principal pollutants and…

One of three modules which form a model using a multi-media approach for an education department or teacher educator to infuse career education concepts into the pre-service curriculum, this module is designed to provide student teachers with a diversity of techniques, processes and materials that will enable them to incorporate comprehensive…

The research in this article examined an often neglected, but nevertheless equally important, factor in the burnout and attrition rate of special education teachers. This factor was a lack of school supplies, materials and resources. This shortage was largely due to a constant "tug-of-war" with regular education personnel for the same…

This brief paper discusses how in 10 year's time a system for providing caregiver training was developed in Texas. The training accessibility system consists of five dimensions: publications, free materials, resource rooms, child development specialists, Title XX training contracts and traveling resource vans. Tips for program continuity under…

The guide is designed to give Texas school personnel detailed suggestions for developing career awareness beginning with kindergarten and continuing through grade 6. The document opens with a rationale for career education and lists career concepts and objectives. The responsibilities of the elementary school principal and teacher in integrating…

The results of a mental health and mental retardation educational program were reported for the period January 1969 to June 1970. The objectives were to foster and enhance public awareness, interest, and concern for mental health and mental retardation; to inform the population of the services available to meet immediate needs; to educate the…

This 5-year report documents the establishment of a dissemination network to provide educational research materials to Texas educators. Originally supported by an NIE grant and now fully state supported, the system is accomplishing its four basic objectives: identification of information needs, expansion of the quantity and scope of available…

Lists of current teaching resources about Texas and a bibliography covering the scope of Texas state history are presented. Up-to-date through March 1976, the guide is intended to help secondary teachers identify materials suitable for teaching required courses on the history of Texas. The first four sections identify audiovisual materials,…

The purpose of this curriculum guide is to help the geometry teacher in his endeavor to fulfill his teaching responsibilities. Space is provided for teachers' additions, deletions, notes, and criticisms which will be useful when the guide is revised. The guide is arranged in vertical columns relating the geometry curriculum concepts to: curriculum…

THREE FIELD TRIPS IN EL PASO AREA (TO THE ZOO, FT. BLISS AND THE VALLEY AREA) HAVE BEEN SCHEDULED BY SCHOOL AND DATE WITH BUSES LEAVING AT 9 AM AND RETURNING AT 11.30 AM ON DESIGNATED DAYS. BUS TRANSPORTATION IS PROVIDED AT NO COST TO THE PUPIL. TWO CLASSES, TOTALING 30 PUPILS, SHARE ONE BUS AND ARE UNDER THE DIRECTION OF TWO TEACHERS AND 2 AIDES.…

Being a collection of biographical sketches of men who reside in what is now called Texas, this pamphlet portrays over 40 creoles and mestizos of the 18th and 19th centuries who were varying combinations of priest, teacher, rancher, city father, political activist, revolunionary, counterrevolunionary, politician, adventurer, military leader, civil…