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Elliott, Paul H. – Audiovisual Instruction, 1978
Discusses the need for infusing emphasis on language development, auditory training, and career education in all instructional materials for the deaf, regardless of subject area. (CMV)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Deafness
Corley, Rhonda M.; And Others – 1985
An addendum to the larger publication entitled "The Kangaroo Book," this document describes a unit approach to planning kindergarten curriculum and offers three sammple units. Exploration of the unit approach includes discussions of topic, concepts, large and small group experiences; descriptions of learning center activities; techniques for…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Basic Skills, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
Teacher, 1973
The emphasis on accountability has resulted in a change in textbook emphasis and a renewed interest in basic skills, expecially in reading and mathematics. (SP)
Descriptors: Accountability, Basic Skills, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development

Askov, Eunice N. – Adult Learning, 1992
Points out that, to keep the work force up to date, business, industry, and labor groups are inviting adult basic educators to design and implement retraining programs at the worksite. Provides suggestion for designing custom-made basic skills instruction using work-related materials. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development

Downey, Matthew T. – Social Education, 1986
Presents an alternative scope and sequence for the social studies. Offers an integrated social science and humanities approach, placing history and geography at the center of the curriculum. Scrapping the prevailing pattern of repeated history surveys, the proposed alternative emphasizes a different historical period at each grade level to give…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Civics, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Design
Oakton Community Coll., Morton Grove, IL. – 1978
Remedial courses at Oakton Community College have traditionally been offered, along with mainstream courses, through the general studies curriculum. As the need for remedial courses, as indicated by student assessment, was found to be greater than the demand for such courses, a proposal was developed for a basic studies curriculum consisting…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Budgets, Community Colleges, Counseling
Torbruegge, Marilyn K. – 1971
Curriculum innovations at the University of Illinois (Chicago Circle) in the second-year level of German instruction are indications of the current trend toward greater individualization of instruction. The German department offers second-year students options to the traditional program which include the regular skills program, an enriched and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Language Programs, Colleges, Cultural Education

Hartoonian, H. Michael; Laughlin, Margaret A. – Social Education, 1986
Contends that decisions about scope and sequence are most appropriately made by local curriculum committees and teachers. Provides guidance for this work by identifying four goals for the K-12 social studies curriculum, along with seven major themes, including social history, cultural heritage, and development of a global perspective. Key…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Civics, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Design
Plihal, Jane; And Others – 1992
Integration of vocational and academic education at the secondary level has been suggested as a way to strengthen students' education. Concerns about the vocational-academic split found in high schools center around human rights issues; economic competitiveness dependent on strengthened education; and graduates unprepared for life, work, or…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Basic Skills, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
Education Week, 1993
Six articles by Lynn Olson, published in various issues of "Education Week" starting in January 1993 and ending May 1995, describe a Maryland project to improve elementary education in the State: (1) "Winning NASDC (New American Schools Development Corporation) Project Takes Flight" (the basic skills children need to succeed in…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Change

Kniep, Willard M. – Social Education, 1986
Maintains that the extraordinary privileges and responsibilities attached to contemporary and future United States citizenship demands a more global approach to social studies. Proposes four essential elements and three major themes to set the boundary for the scope of the social studies. Provides an illustrative example of appropriate grade level…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Citizenship Education, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Design
White, Eileen Casey – 1994
The Food Processors Skills Building project was undertaken by four Oregon community colleges, with funds from the Oregon Economic Development Department and 11 local food processing companies, to address basic skills needs in the food processing industry through the development and implementation of an industry-specific curriculum. Based on…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Cooperative Education, Curriculum Design
Adams, Robert D. – 1977
This is a position paper which deals with learning and reading difficulties of students in urban schools. The program upon which this paper is based is a learning and reading readiness classroom system that uses the Informational Process Model. This system acts as the basic construct for matching learners' needs based on the assessment data, with…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Louisiana State Dept. of Education, Baton Rouge. Bureau of Adult and Community Education. – 1976
This booklet along with six others comprises a curriculum guide developed for adult education supervisors and teachers of undereducated workers or job seekers whose inability to develop the skills and obtain the knowledge necessary to meet the requirements of the working world are primarily due to a lack of competence in reading and math skills.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Career Education, Curriculum Design

Engle, Shirley H.; Ochoa, Anna – Social Education, 1986
Offers a conception of the K-12 social studies curriculum based upon a probing treatment of problems, ideas, and values of democracy. Maintains that democracy must be practiced in the schools if effective democratic citizenship is expected. Offers four guidelines for curriculum development, and identifies seven curriculum strands. (JDH)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Citizenship Education, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Design
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