Effective, "schoolwide" inclusion ensures the best outcomes for all students--but how can school teams knock down the barriers to inclusion and make sure it's happening across all classrooms? This concise book gives principals and other school leaders the solution they've been waiting for: a clear framework for leading inclusion efforts,…

The Mountain-Plains curriculum guidelines are outlined to provide guidance in fulfilling the requirements of the Career Education Model Four project as they relate to curriculum design, implementation, and evaluation. The curriculum is devised for the sole purpose of supporting the mission of Model Four and is based on the criteria for family…

Points out that evaluating social studies teachers requires evaluating both curriculum and instruction. Elaborates by saying social studies is such a diverse subject area that to teach it effectively, varied teaching styles must be employed. Examples of these styles include the teacher as storyteller, problem solver, scholar, and moralist. (BR)

Provided is the checklist from the Infant-Parent Training Program, a model program providing day care, therapy-nursery, and home programs for handicapped children from 0 to 3 years old. The Checklist is noted to be useful for assessment and curriculum development, as well as for sensitizing paraprofessionals to the variety of early infant…

The guiding principles by which the Albion (New York) school district developed its written composition curriculum guide include two basic assumptions about the learning/teaching of composition skills and eight other assumptions that reflect salient features of the composing process. The fundamental assumptions are that writing can be taught and…

Presented in the third of four volumes on the Home-Oriented Preschool Education Program are the rating scale responses of a National Panel and Appalachian Panel of Child Development Scholars to five categories of behavioral competencies for normal preschool children. Specific and general comments of panel members are reported for each skill…

The consumer education for adults guide, part of a consumer and homemaking education unit, was developed in a curriculum workshop at Winthrop College in June 1972. It was written in reference to a norm grouping. The concepts presented are: family life cycle, life style, the consumer in the economy, spending plan, consumer credit, financing…

The notebook is divided into 17 modules which provide a curriculum for training protective services staff. The contents represent, almost exclusively, a reassessment and application of already existing material in the field. The following modules are included: "Historical Perspective on the Maltreatment of Children", "Value…

This self-assessment instrument is intended to accompany the National Council for the Social Studies guidelines for new directions in social studies. It is a comprehensive instrument which will help teachers, supervisors, and administrators determine their readiness to embark upon or review their status relative to the new social studies…

The guideline for program development for administrators, supervisors, and teachers is to be used in making decisions regarding home economics education programs in Arizona schools. It will also serve as the basis for the initiation of an extensive curriculum development at all levels and give directions as to how programs may be established,…

The field test design information packet was devised for use by persons representing institutions using the Mountain-Plains curriculum products. The primary purpose of field testing the curriculum is to get third party profession and student reaction to what has proved to be successful with students and instructors at Mountain-Plains. The…

The primary purpose of this paper is to describe strategies for enhancing the health behavior of adolescents and their families through increasing the healthfulness of the media environment, particularly radio or the music industry. A second goal is to briefly describe research that would enhance understanding of the healthfulness of the media…

The family health guide, part of a consumer and homemaking education unit, was developed in a 3-week curriculum workshop at Winthrop College in June 1972. The identified objectives and learning experiences have been developed with basic reference to developmental tasks, needs, interests, capacities, and prior learning experiences of students. The…

The guide is an attempt to help teachers select content and organize instructions in a sequence that will help students grasp the basic structure of management and consumer education. The guide was written in reference to a norm grouping. The advanced course for grade 10 presents the concepts of decision making and teenager consumership. The…

This publication presents an instructional system design (ISD) which is a systematic procedure for assuring the application of planning and organization to vocational programs. The resulting instructional system, according to the author, is an integrated combination of resources, students, instructors, materials, equipment, techniques, and…