Article described a project designed to adapt contract teaching on a multi-level basis to the environment of the smaller high school. (Author/RK)

This paper explains the use of intrinsic analysis procedures developed, as part of the Pennsylvania School Improvement Program (PSIP), to evaluate and choose curriculum materials and instructional programs. An intrinsic analysis, as distinct from an evaluation using outcome measures or classroom processes, employs research criteria to make…

SERVICES PROVIDED BY VOCATIONAL NURSES HAVE CHANGED SIGNIFICANTLY AND THIS HAD MADE NECESSARY CHANGES IN THE TRAINING PROGRAM. THIS WORKSHOP WAS CONDUCTED TO GIVE 93 TEACHERS OF VOCATIONAL NURSING IN CALIFORNIA AN OPPORTUNITY TO WORK INTENSIVELY ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF APPROPRIATE MATERIALS. WESLEY P. SMITH AND HELEN K. POWERS PRESENTED KEYNOTE…

A 3-YEAR PROJECT DEVELOPED PROGRAMED MATERIALS AND DEVICES FOR THEIR PRESENTATION, AND OBSERVED THEIR EFFECTS UPON THE CURRICULUM. SPECIFIC COURSES WERE PROGRAMED AND TESTED AT THE COLLEGE LEVEL. THEY WERE (1) MATHEMATICS, (2) RUSSIAN, (3) MUSIC, (4) CHEMISTRY, (5) BIOLOGY, (6) RELIGION, (7) GEOLOGY, (8) SPANISH, AND (9) PHYSICS. REPORTS OF…

The Comprehensive School Mathematics Program (CSMP) is a program of CEMREL, Inc., one of the national educational laboratories and is funded by the National Institute of Education. Its major purpose is the development of curriculum materials in mathematics for grades K-6. Beginning in September, 1973, CSMP began an extended pilot trial of its…

This document is one in a set of four documents which present a personnel development program aimed at improving the competence of instructional leaders in planning and implementing curricula in generic work skills, especially in vocational education. (Generic work skills are defined as those skills that facilitate the operation of goal-oriented…

THE INSTITUTE WAS HELD TO IMPROVE INSTRUCTION AND UPDATE CURRICULUM OFFERINGS THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AND PROCEDURES WHEREBY INDUSTRIAL MATERIALS MAY BE INTEGRATED INTO THE LABORATORY ACTIVITIES OF INDUSTRIAL ARTS PROGRAMS. THE 24 PARTICIPANTS WERE TEACHER EDUCATORS, SUPERVISORS, AND TEACHERS FROM 16 STATES. PHASE I…

Discussed are two studies undertaken by the Commission: The Cost of Material Study and The Science-Mathematics S"udy. Early plans in The Cost of Material Study were to specifically tabulate costs of introducing and maintaining each of eight "new" science courses in elementary and junior high schools. This was abandoned in favor of…

Los Angeles Unified School District components funded under Title I/ESEA and implemented primarily during the summer of 1968 are evaluated in this volume. Seven elementary level programs concentrated on educational enrichment for pupils, human relations and instructional technique development for staff, and new curriculum material development for…

Presented is the final report of a 2-year project to develop an examplary model classroom program and curriculum for the secondary learning disabled student. Section I consists of completed forms entitled Project Completion Report, Termination Report, and Equipment Inventory. Outlined in Section II is information on the following project…

The purpose of any inservice workshop program is threefold: the educational enrichment of teachers, supervisors, curriculum specialists, and administrators; recertification credit; and direct teacher involvement in the decision-making process of the school system. In 1973 the National Institute of Education (NIE) funded an Experimental Schools…

A project in major curriculum revision for a baccalaureate program in nursing accomplished: (1) extensive review of the present and future educational health and nursing care needs; (2) development of a philosophy of nursing education; (3) development of a set of terminal program objectives; (4) development of a statement about the graduate of the…

This curriculum guide is intended to help California community college educators understand and develop a vocational program in health care, community care, and school food service. It establishes the general need for such a program, and provides guidelines to help educators determine if there is a need for such a program in their geographic…

This publication includes the proceedings of the December 1974 long-range academic planning workshop for the 1974-75 Cooperative Academic Planning (CAP) consortium, the first in a series on curriculum change for this new consortium. This workshop represents a new thrust for the CAP program in terms of establishing coordinating and comprehensive…

The Career Education Workshops project began August 15, 1972 and was completed April 11, 1973. The primary purpose of the project was o conduct eight workshops which would be geographically distributed throughout Illinois on the basis of teacher population density, and would educate 240 or more elementary teachers concerning Illinois' three newly…