THIS SYSTEMS APPROACH DETERMINES AND IDENTIFIES ULTIMATE EDUCATIONAL GOALS AND INTERMEDIATE GOALS WHICH PROVIDE THE OPERATIONAL DYNAMICS FOR GOAL ATTAINMENT BY USING MODELS DESIGNED BY SYSTEMS NETWORK ANALYSIS PROCESS, OR SNAP MAPS WHICH ARE SIMPLIFIED FLOW CHARTS, EXPOSING TENTATIVE SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL ELEMENTS OF THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS…

Leaders from across the country attended the Fourth Annual National Vocational-Technical Teacher Education seminar, which focused on emerging teacher education curricular models. The November 1970 seminar had three primary objectives: (1) to provide an understanding of the performance-based core concept of a model vocational-technical teacher…

Asserts that the Developmental Economic Education Program (DEEP) is a model for curriculum change. Describes the process and content of the DEEP teacher education and curriculum development program. Presents a case study of a DEEP project involving one Indiana school district. (CFR)

Using information from relevant literature and recent surveys and interviews with administrators of many of Rhode Island's smaller school districts, the report identifies options/strategies which may be useful in counteracting the potential adverse effects that low, or significantly declining, enrollments may have on the comprehensiveness of a…

Gifted children in the preschool and primary grades may demonstrate advanced abilities in the verbal areas in several different ways. Many gifted children show precocious oral language ability by talking early and with greater complexity and manipulation of language than their age peers. Some gifted children also demonstrate precocious reading…

This publication is intended to provide educators and interested community agencies with basic information to help determine which of the four Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) programs would be most appropriate for their school and community. Four regional educational laboratories selected by the National Institute of Education to develop…