This comprehensive text helps prepare pre-service and in-service teachers to build and sustain family, school, and community partnerships that are vital to student success. Focusing on grades preK-8, and with a particular emphasis on diverse families and learners, this book helps teachers to overcome barriers, create action plans, and sustain…

Designed for schools too small to have an artist-in-residence program, the Artist's Environment Program allows students to visit studios of local artists/craftspersons. To attempt an understanding of the artist's role in society and working environment, students videotape their visit for later classroom discussion. (Author/SJL)

This handbook, one of a series of materials, was created to help vocational education teachers in the Mississippi ARC (Appalachian Regional Commission) Region to use resources available in their communities to enrich their classroom teaching. Resources are categorized as communication, government agencies, industry, and local business and…

The author suggests alternative methods of teaching accounting in order to bring the community into the classroom: compiling lists of possible field trips, speakers, and other sources of information; a questionnaire for students; field trips; speakers in the classroom; individual interviews; analyzing records of small businesses; and using…

This handbook of information and suggestions for improving art education in the elementary and secondary schools of Iowa provides broad guidelines for the purpose and goals of a quality art education program. The guidelines may be used to inform school administrators and board members of the general characteristics of an educationally valid…

Tips, recommendations, ideas, and background information are offered to providers of family day care. After a brief discussion of licensing and registration and a listing of learning activities for young children at home, additional learning activities and materials are described that are considered appropriate for infants, toddlers, preschool…

Designed for use by instructors of training programs for day care and nursery school personnel, this manual provides activities, resources, and ideas to help these caregivers include children with special needs and handicaps in their programs. The activities cover 12 topics in the area of mainstreaming. These topics include the following:…

This handbook provides suggestions for learning activities that teachers can use in providing an experience-based prevocational career education program such as the Study of Work Project that was conducted at Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey. The emphasis of the handbook is on developing connections between skill acquisition in the…

Developed to serve as a reference for the office duplication practices instructor, this teacher's handbook consists of ideas to aid the instructor in developing and implementing office duplication practices and teacher certification courses. Covered next are various aspects of public relations, including working with school personnel, working with…

This teacher's guide is designed for use in helping adult basic education (ABE) students to develop beginning language skills. Addressed in the individual units of the guide are the following topics: occupational knowledge, consumer economics, health and safety, government and law, and community resources. Each unit contains some or all of the…