This paper is an outline of a course unit for a writing laboratory, specifically designed for use in teaching English composition to Mexican-Americans. The unit utilizes a multi-media approach to elaborate the necessary organization of a paragraph contrasting two topics. Goals and objectives are included in the unit outline as is a slide/tape…

Intended to be used by secretarial science students in a single skills laboratory, this operations manual for a dictaphone cassette contains step-by-step instructions and simple diagrams designed to be easily understood by students. (Two other learning modules designed for student use in a single skills laboratory and a report on the development…

This document is an outline for a module which can be inserted, in whole or in part, in community college courses on California and/or Southwest United States history, Mexican-American or Chicano history, Mexican history, and United States history. The module examines the close ties--political, economic, and social--between Mexico and California…

Intended to be used by secretarial science students in a single skills laboratory, this operations manual for a mimeograph stencil printer (A B Dick Model 555) contains step-by-step instructions and simple diagrams designed to be easily understood by the students. (Two other learning modules designed for student use in a single skills laboratory…

This document is an outline for a three-week unit on the influence of the Mexican Revolution of 1910 on the art of J. G. Posada and J. C. Orozco. The unit is part of an eighteen week community college course on the Art and History of Mexico. Objectives for both teacher and student are presented. For each section of the unit a detailed outline of…

The need for a management information system for a community college is developed. Based on this need, a system is outlined. The system and data base are modular in structure. The modules included are: (1) Student, (2) Personnel, (3) Financial, (4) Facilities, (5) Community Information. Examples of the data which are part of each module are…

Fifteen students in a Drawing I class at Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College participated in an experimental module on gesture drawing based on operant conditioning theory. Students ranged in age from 18 to 50, all with previous art instruction at the high school level. After responding to questionnaires in which they offered suggestions about…

This volume contains the first 13 of 28 individualized programmed units on basic English grammar, intended for use in developmental or guided studies for students with deficiences in English. The units may be used separately or in sequence as a comprehensive course. The approach taken is neither wholly traditional (prescriptive) or…

This volume contains the final 15 of 28 individualized programmed units on basic English grammar, intended for use in developmental or guided studies for students with deficiences in English. The units may be used separately or in sequence as a comprehensive course. The approach taken is neither wholly traditional (prescriptive) or…

The document summarizes a one day training session conducted at the CEGEP (community college) of Hull in the Province of Quebec on June 3, 1974 for 88 professional educators representing 43 different occupational clusters. The purpose of the workshop (and of the document) was to restructure job oriented community college programs towards the…

This document outlines a course unit on Pre-Columbian Mayan Myths intended to be part of a semester-long survey course on world mythology. The intended unit length of three weeks for three hours per week allows time for consideration of a brief geographical, historical, and cosmological background against which to place Mayan myths, study of the…

This paper outlines the basic structure, content, and organization of the Competency-Based Teacher Education (CBTE) program developed for part-time community college instructors at Mount San Jacinto College. Trainees in the program meet in five to seven three-hour class sessions over a typical sixteen-week time span. Sessions are usually spaced…

This document presents an outline and teacher's guide for a community college-level teaching module in Mexican identification, designed for students in introductory courses in the social sciences. Although intended specifically for cultural anthropology, urban anthropology, comparative social organization and sex roles in cross-cultural…

The Community College of Vermont has developed a Student Progress Portfolio designed to help students become self-reliant and continuous learners. The Portfolio is divided into four primary sections: Assessment, Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation. It is intended to be used as a handbook by either groups or individuals to establish…

Intended for nursing students, this programed workbook contains learning exercises and study tests on using household, apothecary, and metric systems in calculating medication dosages. The material, organized in six learning units, was designed to help students meet six objectives: correctly interpret and use accepted symbols and abbreviations in…