Adult education, learning and skills providers are familiar with the longstanding national challenge of poor adult basic skills, and many providers use their Adult Education Budget funding to offer English and math classes for adults. In recent years, there has been a focus on supporting unemployed adults to achieve the good literacy and numeracy…

This document, divided into two main sections, contains a set of minimal physical education skill objectives. The following statements summarize the skill objectives described in section two: (a) these objectives affect the cognitive and affective components of physical education; (b) they are basic enough to be achieved by nearly all children;…

Developed for the training of the custodian corps in the State of Washington, this step-by-step training manual covers in minute detail the jobs, duties, and responsibilities of a school custodian. The sections covered are: classroom care, floor care, halls, lavatories, general maintenance, and emergency. Each operation is separately described…

This document is an outline for a course designed to teach Chicano students basic skills and study habits that will help them achieve success at the community college. Skills focused on include how to manage study time, how to take notes, how to make an outline, how to listen critically, and how to use the library. Course goals and objectives are…

This program guide is a supplement to the occupational cluster guides (CE 001 286-295) and contains in detail the background, philosophy, and descriptive information needed for their successful implementation. An introductory section discusses teaching children with special needs, emphasizing ways of matching teaching methods to the particular…

Designed to acquaint high school students with the common competencies related to all public service jobs, this manual is intended for use (along with its accompanying teacher's manual, CE 013 654) in a one-quarter course, "Preparing for Public Service." (The course is the second in a series of three developed as a comprehensive approach…

Designed for a high school cooperative vocational education program that encompasses all of the areas of vocational education in Idaho (usually those programs in smaller schools where specialized cooperative programs are not offered), this curriculum guide is intended for teachers in a program to offer high school seniors the opportunity to…

This curriculum guide was developed in Phase II of a two-phase project designed (1) to develop a model curriculum guide for all adult basic education programs in Rhode Island that reflects the goals and objectives of the Adult Performance Level Study (a study which stressed the need for adult educators to become involved with the concepts of…

Skill New Zealand is a strategy to raise the skill levels of all New Zealanders, an industry-led approach to skills development that will increase the quantity, quality, and diversity of training in that country. The booklet contains four sections. The first section explains what Skill New Zealand is and why employers should become involved it.…

This annotated resource guide designed to aid the vocational teacher of the handicapped contains over 300 citations, each with a short abstract. The resources are listed under seven major categories: (1) Aids for Educators lists 31 citations that relate to the teaching of specific handicapped groups, such as the mentally retarded or deaf, and a…

A summary of requirements and provisions of early childhood and basic skills programs and a framework for and the requisites of thorough and systematic planning which can be held accountable for what the student learns are provided in this document. A plan that clearly establishes criteria for what needs to be done and why, the actual planning…

This manual contains 56 teacher-developed activities which can be used in social studies courses to improve students' basic skills. The activities teach location and map skills, writing and study skills, time skills, and thinking skills. Students also learn how to use reference books and how to read and interpret charts and graphs. Each activity…

This instructor's training guide for the Job Corps four-unit World of Work curriculum contains instructional units and teaching methods for the program, which is designed to provide corps members with the opportunity to learn the skills and behaviors necessary for getting and keeping a job. The four units in the guide and their respective contents…

This is number eight in a series of resource manuals consisting of 11 sequenced curriculum guides developed by the Demonstration and Research Center for Early Education (DARCEE) for use in early childhood education programs. Emphasis is placed on the development of sensory, abstracting and mediating and response skills. The projected order of the…

This is number 10 in a series of resource manuals consisting of 11 sequenced curriculum guides developed by the Demonstration and Research Center for Early Education (DARCEE) for use in early childhood education programs. Emphasis is placed on the development of sensory, abstracting and mediating, and response skills. The projected order of the…